| Several near eastern theogonies have survived, and can be compared to the work of Hesiod. |
| To Hesiod, then, we must turn for what is the earliest complete literary form of the Greek cosmogonic myth. |
| Hesiod codified certain priestly and Delphian theories about their origin and genealogies. |
| But I fear Hesiod will still be found correct in his description of a Boeotian winter. |
| As long ago as 800 BC the Greek poet Hesiod described a sweet Cypriot wine, produced from sun-dried grapes. |
| It looks back ultimately to the Works and Days of the archaic Greek poet Hesiod. |
