Hesiod

Hesiod was an Ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, roughly contemporary with Homer. Two of his works survive in their entirety: the Theogony, an account of the origins of the gods, their lineages, and the events that led to Zeus's rise to power, and Works and Days, a poem describing the five Ages of Man that offers moral and practical advice alongside myths such as that of Pandora's box. He is generally regarded as the first poet in the Western tradition to write of himself as an individual persona with an active role in his own subject matter, and ancient authors credited him alongside Homer with establishing Greek religious custom; modern scholars treat him as a major source for Greek mythology, farming technique, early economic thought, and Archaic Greek astronomy and cosmology.