Hesiod

" "Because, when Homer had made poetry about the heroes, Hesiod made a Catalogue of Women, and in truth he sang the women's quarters, yielding to Homer the praise of the men.

" Hesiod, calling the lyre-player Linus "skilled in every kind of wisdom," does not shrink from calling a sailor too "wise," writing of one "in no way made wise in seamanship.

But further, we may fairly repeat what I was saying then also, that if the guardian shall strive for a kind of happiness that will unmake him as a guardian and shall not be content with the way of life that is moderate and secure and, as we affirm, the best, but if some senseless and childish opinion about happiness shall beset him and impel him to use his power to appropriate everything in the ci …

For he says that when I was prosecuting Timarchus I said that his lewdness was a matter of common report, and that Hesiod, a good poet, says, But Common Report dies never, the voice that tongues of many men do utter.

And one day they taught Hesiod glorious song while he was shepherding his lambs under holy Helicon, and this word first the goddesses said to me— the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis:

It will be most convenient to explain the signification of these terms if we follow the practice of all the poets since Hesiod, of the philosophers and jurists of the past, and distinguish certain epochs, the divisions of which are marked off perhaps not so much by intervals of time as by obvious logic and essential character.

And though in much else I agree with Phaedrus, in this I agree not, that Love by his account is more ancient than Cronos and Iapetus:

If you disregard the poet’s meter and examine only his thought, I think this will seem to you to be, not a poem of Hesiod, but an oracle directed against the politics of Demosthenes.

As for the person who neither knows nor can learn, let him hear the words of Hesiod:

"For he himself is king and lord of all, and of the immortals none else has matched his might.

But Hesiod speaks of Hyperboreans, and Homer too in his poem The Heroes' Sons, if that is truly the work of Homer.

To which rule Plato, in his third book of Laws, adapts the proverbial expression of Hesiod, that half is better than the whole.

For some of my friends met me and related to me how, as they were sitting together in the Lyceum, three or four of the sophists of no repute— men who claim to know everything and are prompt to show their presence everywhere—were discussing the poets, especially the poetry of Hesiod and Homer, saying nothing original about them, but merely chanting their verses and repeating from memory the clevere …

As a case in point, one might cite the poetry of Hesiod and Theognis and Phocylides;

in Hesiod she is one of the Graces, in Homer one of the Muses.

If there was any Pandora, whom Hesiod records as the first of women, her head first was crowned by the Graces, when she was endowed by all—whence "Pandora.

After bivouacking with the army in the sacred precinct of the Nemean Jupiter, in which Hesiod the poet is said to have been killed by the people of this country, an oracle having before declared that he should meet with this fate at Nemea;