Hesiod
A farmer-poet writes down the gods' genealogy and complains about his brother.
- When
- Known to
- ± 50 years
- Era
- Iron Age, Holocene
Hesiod's Theogony gives the Greek gods a systematic family tree and succession myth, and Works and Days offers agricultural advice, moral instruction and a bitter dispute with his brother over an inheritance. He names himself and describes his own life, which Homer does not. He also gives the first Greek statement of the ages of man declining from gold to iron, and the myth of Pandora.