In Hesiod’s Theogony, the primary cosmic beings are named in ways that evoke their nature ... Hesiod wrote ‘Theogony about the birth of the gods ... Hesiod and the muse (Hésiode et la Muse) by Eugène Delacroix.
The transmission of myth extends far beyond Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey or Hesiod’s Theogony ... In literature, Greek mythology first spread through the oral epics of Homer and the didactic works of Hesiod.