person
Hesiod
also: Hesiod
Early Greek poet (c. 700 BC), author of the Theogony and Works and Days; cited as the authority who named the three Graces.
Reading notes
- On Benefits §1.3.6 Hesiod
Early Greek poet (c. 700 BC); in his Theogony he names the three Graces Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §3.27.6 Hesiod
The early Greek poet of the Theogony and Works and Days, ranked with Homer at the head of the Greek poetic canon.