Editing Hesiod (section)

== Depictions ==

=== Monnus mosaic ===
[[File:Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier 20210705 113435 (51291907059).jpg|alt=Monnus mosaic from the end of the 3rd century AD. The figure is identified by the name ESIO-DVS (Hesiod).|thumb|Monnus mosaic from the end of the 3rd century AD. The figure is identified by the name ESIO-DVS (Hesiod).]]
Portrait of Hesiod from Augusta Treverorum ([[Trier]]), from the end of the 3rd century AD. The mosaic is signed in its central field by the maker, 'MONNUS FECIT' ('Monnus made this'). The figure is identified by name: 'ESIO-DVS' ('Hesiod'). It is the only known authenticated portrait of Hesiod.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Portrait of Hesiod|url=https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5835/portrait-of-hesiod/|access-date=17 December 2021|website=World History Encyclopedia|language=en}}</ref>

===Portrait bust===
The Roman bronze bust, the so-called ''[[Pseudo-Seneca]],'' of the late first century BC found at [[Herculaneum]] is now thought not to be of [[Seneca the Younger]]. It has been identified by [[Gisela Richter]] as an imagined portrait of Hesiod. In fact, it has been recognized since 1813 that the bust was not of Seneca when an inscribed [[herma]] portrait of Seneca with quite different features was discovered. Most scholars now follow Richter's identification.<ref group="nb">Gisela Richter, ''The Portraits of the Greeks''. London: Phaidon (1965), I, p. 58 ff.; commentators agreeing with Richter include Wolfram Prinz, "The Four Philosophers by Rubens and the Pseudo-Seneca in Seventeenth-Century Painting" in ''The Art Bulletin'' '''55'''.3 (September 1973), pp. 410–428. "[…] one feels that it may just as well have been the Greek writer Hesiod […]" and Martin Robertson, in his review of G. Richter, ''The Portraits of the Greeks'' for ''The Burlington Magazine'' '''108'''.756 (March 1966), pp. 148–150. "[…] with Miss Richter, I accept the identification as Hesiod."</ref>