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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), He'siodus (search)
If we inquire after the exact age of Hesiod, we are informed by Herodotus (l.c.) that he lived four hundred years before his time, that is, about B. C. 850. Velleius Paterculus (1.7) considers that between Homer and Hesiod there was an interval of a hundred and twenty years, and most modern critics assume that Hesiod lived about a century later than Homer, which is pretty much in accordance with the statement of some ancient writers who place him about the eleventh Olympiad, i. e. about B. C. 735. Respecting the life of the poet we derive some information from one of the poems ascribed to him, viz. the *)/Erga kai\ h(me/rai. We learn from that poem (648, &c.), that he was born in the village of Ascra in Boeotia, whither his father had emigrated from the Aeolian Cuma in Asia Minor. Ephorus (Fragm. p. 268, ed. Marx) and Suidas state that both Homer and Hesiod were natives of Cuma, and even represent them as kinsmen,--a statement which probably arose from the belief that Hesiod was bo