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Hesiodic, a.|hiːsɪˈɒdɪk|
[f. the name of Hesiod (Gr. Ἡσίοδος), Greek poet of about the eighth century b.c. + ic.]
Of, pertaining to, or resembling the poetical style of Hesiod, or the school of poetry which followed him. Also Hesiˈodian a.
1838Penny Cycl. XII. 186/2 Ulrici considers..the story of Prometheus and that of the Five Ages as much altered from their original Hesiodic form. 1847J. Leitch tr. Müller's Anc. Art §77 The Hesiodic bards come down to about the 40th Ol[ympiad]. 1873J. Davies Hesiod & Theognis i. 19 Under one or other of these heads it is easy to group the Hesiodic poems. Ibid. ii. 23 The Hesiodian rhapsodists. 1908A. W. Mair Hesiod p. xi, The Hesiodic epic is the antithesis of the Homeric. 1970G. E. Evans Where Beards wag All xx. 223 In literature there was little beyond a Hesiodic theogony or some Orphic hymns to exhibit. |