Dius

Also known as: the father of Hesiod and Perses · Role: father · First appears: Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 5

Dius left Aeolian Cyme, fleeing poverty, and settled near Helicon in Ascra. In Hesiod’s account, he and Perses were the father of Hesiod and Perses, and had once sailed by ship. The Contest of Homer and Hesiod traces Dius’s descent through Melanopus.

Relationship record

Life events

• He left Aeolian Cyme, fleeing poverty, and settled near Helicon in Ascra.(Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 5 · 📍 Ascra)
  • “And one day he came to this very place crossing over a great stretch of sea; he left Aeolian Cyme and fled, not from riches and substance, but from wretched poverty which Zeus lays upon men, and he settled near Helicon in a miserable hamlet, Ascra, which is bad in winter, sultry in summer, and good at no time.”

Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 5

• child: Hesiod “even as your father and mine, foolish Perses, used to sail on shipboard”
• child: Perses “even as your father and mine, foolish Perses, used to sail on shipboard”

The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 1

• parent: Melanopus “The descent is continued through Iadmonides, Philoterpes, Euphemus, Epiphrades and Melanopus who had sons Dius and Apelles.”
• child: 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.”
• child: Perses “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.”

The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2

• child: Hesiod “Hesiod, son of Dius, I am willing to tell you what you command, and very readily will I answer you.”

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