So, these works, particularly the Homeric poems and the tragedies were the model for the successive writers of the same genres.
He is mentioned as the author of several works, most of which were related to the Homeric poems.
Hesiod introduces a moral purpose which is absent in the Homeric poems.
It is the substage to which the Homeric poems belong.
It was once argued that the dating made no sense because the Homeric poems must have reached Syracuse much earlier.
"How reliable is the tradition embodied in the Homeric poems?"
Homeric poems have been subjected to probably deep variations during the centuries of oral transmission.
He also prepared a critical recension of the Homeric poems.
Modern scholars have doubted whether the Homeric poems are the work of any single mind.
He argues that the Homeric poems reflected two significant developments.