A painting of Hesiod and the Muse by Gustave Moreau.

Who Is Hesiod?

Hesiod is a man who stands at the dawn of literature in Archaic Greece, a contemporary to Homer. Like Homer, Hesiod was also a poet–although he was not a rhapsode. …

Picture of an antique copy of the Iliad by Homer, a poet from Ancient Greece.

Who Is Homer?

After covering a decent amount of information that is sourced to Homer, we come to the question of who is he? In the simplest answer, Homer is a bard–a poet–from …