Hesiod: The Ancient Greek Poet Who Described the Birth of the Cosmos

Hesiod: The Ancient Greek Poet Who Described the Birth of the Cosmos

Theogony of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod is a poem on the birth of the gods. Painting by Eugène Delacroix entitled Hesiod and the Muse Credit: Sotheby’s London Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose epic work Theogony has elevated him to the status of Homer and “a major source on Greek mythology,” according to modern scholars. Theogony (Birth of the gods in Greek) is a monumental work that sets out to explain how…