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. …

Dionysos statue with grapes

Who is the mother of Zagreus?

Zagreus and Dionysus Zagreus and Dionysus are the same deity, under two different names. Zagreus was his original name given to him by his original mother, Persephone. The reason why …