Editing Hesiod (section)

==Reception==
[[File:Bronze Bust of an Aged Man.jpg|thumb|Ancient bronze bust, the so-called ''[[Pseudo-Seneca]]'', now conjectured to be an imaginative portrait of Hesiod.<ref>{{cite book |author= Erika Simon |title= Pergamon und Hesiod |language=de |location= Mainz am Rhein |publisher= Philipp von Zabern |year=1975 |oclc=2326703}}</ref>]]

*[[Sappho]]'s countryman and contemporary, the lyric poet [[Alcaeus of Mytilene|Alcaeus]], paraphrased a section of ''Works and Days'' (582–88), recasting it in lyric meter and Lesbian dialect. The paraphrase survives only as a fragment.<ref>Alcaeus fr. 347 Loeb, cited by D. Cambell, ''Greek Lyric Poetry: a selection of early Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poetry'', Bristol Classical Press (1982), p. 301.</ref>

*The lyric poet [[Bacchylides]] quoted or paraphrased Hesiod in a victory ode addressed to [[Hieron of Syracuse]], commemorating the tyrant's victory in the chariot race at the [[Pythian Games]] 470 BC, the attribution made with these words: "A man of Boeotia, Hesiod, minister of the [sweet] Muses, spoke thus: 'He whom the immortals honour is attended also by the good report of men.'" However, the quoted words are not found in Hesiod's extant work.<ref group="nb">The Bacchylidean victory ode is fr. 5 Loeb. [[Theognis of Megara]] (169) is the source of a similar sentiment ("Even the fault-finder praises one whom the gods honour") but without attribution. See also fr. 344 M.-W (D. Campbell, ''Greek Lyric Poetry'' IV, Loeb 1992, p. 153)</ref>
*Hesiod's ''Catalogue of Women'' created a vogue for catalogue poems in the Hellenistic period. Thus for example [[Theocritus]] presents catalogues of heroines in two of his bucolic poems (3.40–51 and 20.34–41), where both passages are recited in character by lovelorn rustics.<ref>Richard Hunter, ''Theocritus: A Selection'', Cambridge University Press (1999), pages 122–23</ref>