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The 22 pages that link to Hesiod, each with the reason it gives.

• Greek mythologyRelated: His Theogony organizes divine genealogies and cosmic succession.

• ZeusRelated: His account gives a major narrative of Zeus’s birth, rise, and cosmic settlement.

• Archaic GreeceRelated: His poems preserve archaic accounts of the gods, labor, and justice.

• Classical mythologyRelated: His poems organize divine genealogy and tell stories that Homeric epic does not.

• PrometheusRelated: Theogony and Works and Days preserve two major versions of the myth.

• EmpedoclesRelated: Empedocles’ hexameter poems inherit a poetic mode used for accounts of cosmic origins.

• TheogonyRelated: He presents the poem’s account of divine origins and claims to speak with the Muses’ authority.

• The Birth of VenusRelated: His account of Aphrodite’s birth is a key ancient source for the subject.

• AesopCompared with: His moralizing poetry offers a named authorial tradition unlike the uncertain authorship of Aesop’s collection.

• AphroditeRelated: His Theogony recounts Aphrodite’s birth from sea foam and explains her name.

• MusesRelated: His poem gives the most influential early account of the Muses’ origins.

• OrionRelated: His astronomical calendar poem, Works and Days, mentions Orion’s seasonal appearance.

• TitanomachyRelated: His Theogony preserves the most detailed ancient narrative of the Titanomachy.

• Didactic literatureRelated: Works and Days became an influential model of poetry combining advice and myth.

• Works and DaysRelated: The poem presents itself as Hesiod’s counsel to his brother Perses.

• XenophanesCompared with: He grouped Hesiod with Homer as a source of misleading stories about divine conduct.

• Greek underworldRelated: His Theogony maps divine generations and places Tartarus within the cosmos.

• Twelve OlympiansRelated: His Theogony gives a prominent account of the gods’ origins and succession.

• Martin Litchfield WestRelated: West edited Hesiod and investigated the poem’s relation to Near Eastern traditions.

• Asia (Greek mythology)Related: His Theogony is a key source for Oceanid lineages and their variations.

• GorgonsRelated: His Theogony gives an early account of the Gorgons’ lineage.

• Lernaean HydraRelated: The Theogony gives the Hydra’s lineage and describes its many heads.