{"id":3381,"date":"2010-06-08T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hesiod\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:16:58","slug":"hesiod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hesiod\/","title":{"rendered":"Hesiod"},"content":{"rendered":"

H<\/strong>esiod <\/strong>was one of ancient Greece\u2019s foremost poets and is generally assumed to have flourished around \"\"<\/a>750 BC. Two of his works have been identified as having parallels with Plato\u2019s Atlantis. The first, his Works and <\/em>Days,<\/em> describes the deterioration of mankind in a similar manner to the moral decline of the inhabitants of Atlantis related by Plato.<\/p>\n

The second, Theogony<\/a>, prompted <\/em> Haraldur Sigurdsson, a volcanologist has identified imagery that could be a reflection of the eruption of Thera<\/a> seven hundred years earlier. Professors Mott Greene[575<\/a>]<\/sup> and J. V. Luce<\/a> among others support this idea. This poem contains in line 938 what is probably the earliest use of the name \u2018Atlantis\u2019 that we have. \u201cAnd Maia, the <\/em>daughter of Atlas<\/strong><\/em>, bare to Zeus glorious Hermes, the herald of the deathless gods, for she went up into his holy bed.\u201d<\/em>(a)<\/sup><\/p>\n

Greene lists fifteen details in\u00a0Titanomach<\/em>y and compares them with the characteristics of the mid 2nd millennium BC eruption of Thera and finds a remarkable correspondence (p.61\/2).<\/p>\n

The Titanomachy<\/a> or the war between the Titans<\/a> and the Olympians recorded in the T<\/em>heogony <\/em>has been perceived as a parallel of the conflict between Athens and Atlantis. He also refers to the Hesperides, identified by some with Atlantis, as being located in the west<\/p>\n

In the same work Hesiod notes that a wall of bronze ran around Tartarus (equivalent to Hell in Greek mythology), which brings to mind the walls covered with orichalcum<\/a> in Plato\u2019s Atlantis. It is not unreasonable to suggest the possibility of a common inspiration for both. It is hard to see, how at that period, what defensive advantage a bronze-clad wall had over a plain stone one. The only motivation I can imagine is that it represented power and wealth.<\/p>\n

(a) <\/sup>https:\/\/www.sacred-texts.com\/cla\/hesiod\/theogony.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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