Ancient Greek mythological poetry

Hesiod

b. 700 BCE

Hesiod was an archaic Greek poet active around 700 BCE, regarded alongside Homer as the foremost literary source for Greek religion and cosmogony, whose Theogony systematizes the genealogy and battles of the gods from primordial Chaos through the Olympian order. His Works and Days encodes moral and agricultural wisdom alongside a myth of five ages of humanity, providing essential mythological data for the Western esoteric tradition's engagement with Greco-Roman religion. Together his poems served as foundational scripture for later Neoplatonist, Hermetic, and Renaissance magical systems that drew on Greek theology.