Hesiod

Who is Hesiod?

Hesiod was a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. His is the first European poetry in which the poet regards himself as a topic, an individual with a distinctive role to play. Ancient authors credited him and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs. Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, early economic thought, archaic Greek astronomy and ancient time-keeping.

Famous Quotes:

• If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
• The half is greater than the whole.
• If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
• Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
• We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
• Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.
• The fool knows after he's suffered.
• Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
• A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
• Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.