Hesiod
Family: Greek literature · Role: poet · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 24
In Book 1, Hesiod was associated with Pandora’s birth, described as the first woman. He also described Iphigenia as transformed into Hecate by Artemis, and the Great Eœæ represented Mycene as Inachus’s daughter and Arestor’s wife. His name was also linked to accounts of Æsculapius, Styx, and Eros, though the source questions whether Hesiod himself wrote the Theogony.
In Book 9, Hesiod received a tripod at Chalcis for a victory in song. After his murder, Ctimenus and Antiphus fled to Molycria; accounts differed over whether the accusation against Hesiod that he had violated their sister was true. Later, during a pestilence, messengers were told to bring his bones from Naupactus to Orchomenus as a remedy. They found them in a hollow stone, and the Orchomenians said Chersias composed his epitaph.
Relationship record
Life events
- Pandora is born as the first woman, according to Hesiod.(Book 1 · Chapter 24)
- With: Pandora
- “a representation of the birth of Pandora, the first woman according to Hesiod and other poets”
- Hesiod received an ancient tripod after winning a song competition.(Book 9 · Chapter 31 · 📍 Chalcis)
- “the one they say Hesiod received at Chalcis by the Euripus for a victory in song.”
- Ctimenus and Antiphus fled to Molycria after Hesiod's murder.(Book 9 · Chapter 31 · 📍 Molycria)
- A pestilence destroyed men and cattle, prompting the recovery of Hesiod’s bones as a remedy.(Book 9 · Chapter 38 · 📍 Orchomenus)
- “When a pestilence once destroyed men and cattle they sent messengers to Delphi, and the Pythian Priestess bade them bring the bones of Hesiod from Naupactus to Orchomenus, and that would be a remedy.”
- Hesiod’s bones were found in a hollow stone and brought to Orchomenus.(Book 9 · Chapter 38 · 📍 Orchomenus)
- “As they proceeded on their journey they saw a stone not far from the road and a crow sitting on it, and they found the bones of Hesiod in the hollow of the stone”
Book 1 · Chapter 24
- with Pandora (Hesiod is cited as a source for the account of Pandora.) “On the base of the statue is a representation of the birth of Pandora, the first woman according to Hesiod and other poets, for before her there was no race of women.”
Book 1 · Chapter 43
- with Iphigenia (Hesiod describes an account of Iphigenia.) “Hesiod in his Catalogue of Women describes Iphigenia as not dying, but being changed into Hecate by the will of Artemis.”
Book 2 · Chapter 16
- with Mycene (interaction) “the poem called the Great Eœæ, by Hesiod, represents her as the daughter of Inachus and the wife of Arestor”
Book 2 · Chapter 26
- with Æsculapius (interaction) “Hesiod, or somebody that interpolated Hesiod, inserted that legend to please the people of Messene.”
Book 8 · Chapter 18
- with Styx (interaction) “Hesiod has represented Styx in his Theogony”
Book 9 · Chapter 27
- with Eros (Hesiod is credited with placing Eros in the Theogony's account of origins.) “And Hesiod, (or whoever wrote the Theogony and foisted it on Hesiod), wrote I know that Chaos came first, and then Earth, and Tartarus, and Eros.”
Book 9 · Chapter 31
- enemies with Ctimenus “For though it is universally agreed that Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled to Molycria from Naupactus because of the murder of Hesiod, and were sentenced there because of their impiety to Poseidon, yet some say that the charge against Hesiod of having violated their sister was not true, others say he was really guilty.”
- enemies with Antiphus “For though it is universally agreed that Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled to Molycria from Naupactus because of the murder of Hesiod, and were sentenced there because of their impiety to Poseidon, yet some say that the charge against Hesiod of having violated their sister was not true, others say he was really guilty.”
- with Ctimenus (The passage associates Ctimenus with the murder of Hesiod but does not explicitly state that he was the murderer.) “Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled to Molycria from Naupactus because of the murder of Hesiod”
- with Antiphus (The passage associates Antiphus with the murder of Hesiod but does not explicitly state that he was the murderer.) “Ctimenus and Antiphus, the sons of Ganyctor, fled to Molycria from Naupactus because of the murder of Hesiod”
Book 9 · Chapter 38
- with Chersias (Chersias is said to have composed Hesiod's epitaph.) “The Orchomenians also say that the epitaph on Hesiod was composed by this Chersias.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.