. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. n E s ( 177 ) II E V disputed. The work most certainly of his com-position is thAt entitled Works and Days,being a kind of calendar of rural cccipations. Itis written in a humble style, and strictly con-fines itself to matters of utility; so that Virgilwas extremely modes; in giving the epithet of Ascrean song to his highly poetical andornamented Georgics. Hesiods Tiieogonyis a kind of system of Pagan theology, and i
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. n E s ( 177 ) II E V disputed. The work most certainly of his com-position is thAt entitled Works and Days,being a kind of calendar of rural cccipations. Itis written in a humble style, and strictly con-fines itself to matters of utility; so that Virgilwas extremely modes; in giving the epithet of Ascrean song to his highly poetical andornamented Georgics. Hesiods Tiieogonyis a kind of system of Pagan theology, and isalso written with that dryness which favourablecritics term simplicity. It has, however, a rela-tive value, on account of the information it af-fords of the ancient mythology. The Shieldof Hercules, a more poetical piece, and muchin the Homeric manner, is thought to be suppo-sititious as ascribed to Hesiod. This poet is saidto have written several other works, which arelost. Of the editions of Hesiod, the best aretliose of Amsterdam, 1657 and 1701; of Oxford,1737; and of Leipsic, 1746, 1778. Voisii Poet. Grtec.—A. HESSELS, John (in Latin, Hesselhis), ale
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