1. Homer knows nothing of him, but to Hesiod he is Fairest of the deathless gods.

2. Hesiod was a poor farmer whose life was hard and bitter.

3. This inference was drawn by Hesiod.

4. Hesiod wrote that the garden of the Hesperides was on an island in the sea where the sun sets.

5. As another Greek author, Hesiod, put it, "Keep away from the gossip of people.

6. This simple story line was elaborated in the works of Hesiod, Aeschylus, Lucian, Ovid, and others.

7. Did the people who put together the Old Testament use the Greek canon of Homer and Hesiod as a template?

8. The Greeks already had a century's long tradition of poetic education going back centuries to the time of Homer and Hesiod that set out certain exemplary models of heroic virtue and civic life.