Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Hesiod

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Hesiod ( HEE-see-əd or HEH-see-əd; Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. He is generally regarded by Western authors as 'the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as...

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