| But they were in some danger of treating Homer and Hesiod as inspired scriptures. |
| This day in the calendar of Hesiod, is most propitious for the birth of men. |
| To Hesiod, then, we must turn for what is the earliest complete literary form of the Greek cosmogonic myth. |
| Hesiod brags of prizes won, the blue-ribbon poem of a pedigree at the county-fair, coarse-woven and straw-capped. |
| But they do not, for this symbolic language is not found in either Homer or Hesiod. |
| Viewed in this light, the gnomic poets mark a transition from Homer and Hesiod to the dramatists and moralists of Attica. |
