Perses

Role: Hesiod’s brother · First appears: Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 3

In Works and Days, Part 3, Hesiod refuses to give Perses any more grain or measure, saying, “But I will give you no more nor give you further measure.” The work also warns that even brothers should agree on a wage and get a witness. In Part 5, Perses and Hesiod are described as sons of Dius, who used to sail by ship; The Contest of Homer and Hesiod, Part 1, names Pycimede as their mother.

Relationship record

Life events

• Hesiod refuses to give Perses any more grain or measure.(Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 3)
  • With: Hesiod
  • “But I will give you no more nor give you further measure.”

Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 3

• siblings with Hesiod “Let the wage promised to a friend be fixed; even with your brother smile—and get a witness; for trust and mistrust, alike ruin men.”

Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 5

• siblings with Hesiod “even as your father and mine, foolish Perses, used to sail on shipboard”
• parent: Dius “even as your father and mine, foolish Perses, used to sail on shipboard”

The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 1

• parent: Dius “Dius by Pycimede, the daughter of Apollo had two sons Hesiod and Perses; while Apelles begot Maeon who was the father of Homer by a daughter of the River Meles.”
• parent: Pycimede “Dius by Pycimede, the daughter of Apollo had two sons Hesiod and Perses; while Apelles begot Maeon who was the father of Homer by a daughter of the River Meles.”
• siblings with Hesiod “Dius by Pycimede, the daughter of Apollo had two sons Hesiod and Perses; while Apelles begot Maeon who was the father of Homer by a daughter of the River Meles.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.