The name H., perhaps from the Aeolic ϜᾹσι (cf. ἥδομαι), adapted to the epic-Ionic form Ἡσι- and ὁδός, possibly alludes to his father's occupation of trader: ‘He who rejoices about the roads (journeys?)’ [14]. His father left Cyme in Aeolia due to financial difficulties, and settled in Ascra in Boeotia (Hes. Op. 635-640). Because of the division of the paternal inheritance H. took…
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Arrighetti, Graziano (Pisa),
“Hesiodus”, in:
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