Didactic poetry hesiod biography
HESIOD. HESIOD (Gr., H ē siodos; fl. c. – bce) was one of the earliest recorded Greek poets. The earlier of his two surviving poems, Theogony, is of interest to students of Greek religion as an attempt to catalog the gods in the form of a genealogy, starting with the beginning of the world and describing the power struggles that led to Zeus's kingship among the gods.