HESIOD THE WRITER.

Hesiod was a Greek writer, active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.
Ancient authors credited Hesiod and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs.
Epic narrative allowed poets like Hesiod and Homer no opportunity for personal revelations.
In Hesiod's case, there are three explicit references in Works and Days, as well as some passages in his Theogony that support information about his personal life. the former poem says that his father came from Cyme in Aeolis (on the coast of Asia Minor, a little South of the Island Lebos). and crossed the sea to settle at a hamlet, near Thespiae in Boeotia, named Ascra, a cursed place, cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant.
Cyme was an Aeolian city in Aeolis, close to the kingdom of Lydia. The Aeolians regarded  Cyme as the largest and most important of their 12 cities, which were located North of the Hermus River on the coastline of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). Cyme prospered and developed into a regional metropolis and founded thirty towns. The Cymeans were later ridiculed as a people who had for 300 years lived on the coast and not once exacted harbor taxes on ships making port. Hesiod's father is said to have started his journey across the Aegean from Cyme. The cities of Southern Aeolis in the region surrounding Cyme occupied a good belt of land with rough mountains in the background, yet Cyme like the other cities along the coast did not trade with the Anatolians further inland, who had occupied Asia Minor for thousands of years. Cyme consequently played no significant role in the history of Western Asia Minor, prompting writers to comment repeatedly in the narratives of Greek history that while the events they wrote about were taking place, his fellow Cymeans had for centuries sat idly by and kept in that way the peace.
Unlike his father, Hesiod was adverse to sea travel, but he once crossed the narrow strait between the Greek mainland and Euboea, the 2nd largest island after Crete, to participate in funeral celebrations for one Athamas of Chalcis, and there won a tripod in a singing competition.
Ascra, the home of Hesiod, was located upon Mount Helicon, five miles West of Thespiae in Boeotia. Several traditions agree that the Boeotians were a people expelled from Thessaly some time after the Trojan War. Other traditions suggest that they were of Mycenean origin.
According to a lost poetic writings, a maiden by the name of Ascra lay with Poseidon and bore a son Oeoclus who, together with the Aloadae, sons of Iphimedia, wife of Aloeus, by Poseidon, whom she induced to make her pregnant by going to the seashore and disporting herself in the surf or scooping water into her bosom.  From Aloeus they received their name, the Aloadae. They were strong and aggressive giants, growing by nine fingers every month nine fathoms tall at age nine, and only outshone in beauty by Orion.
The brothers wanted to storm Mt. Olympus and gain Artemis for Otus and Hera for Ephialtes. Their plan, or construction of a pile of mountains atop which they would control the gods is described differently according to the author, including Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. Mount Olympus is usually said to be on the bottom mountain, with Mounts Ossa, and Pelion upon Ossa as 2nd and 3rd, either respectively or vice versa. Homer says they were killed by Apollo before they had any beards, consistent with their being bound to columns in the Underworld by snakes, with the nymph of the Styx in the form of an owl over them.
In the late 7th century Hesiod describes a meeting between himself and the Muses of Mount Helicon, where he had been pasturing sheep when the goddesses presented him with a laurel staff, a symbol of poetic authority.
Mount Helicon is a mountain in the region of Thespiai in Boeotia, Greece, with an elevation of 1,749m /5,738 ft, 10 kilometers/6mi from the North Coast of the Gulf of Corinth.
In Greek mythology, two springs sacred to the Muses were located at Mount Helicon: the Aga-Nippe and the Hippo-Crene, both of which bear 'Horse' in their names. In a related myth, the Hippo-Crene Spring was created when the winged horse Pegasus aimed his hoof at a rock, striking it with such force that the Spring burst from the spot. On Mount Helicon too was the Spring where Narcissus was inspired by his own beauty.
The Hippo-Crene Spring was  considered to be a source of poetic inspiration. Hesiod sang how in his youth when pasturing his sheep on the slopes of Helicon where Eros and the Muses already had sanctuaries and a dancing-ground near the summit, where their pounding feet awaken desire. There the Muses inspired him and he began to sing of the origins of the gods. Thus Helicon became an emblem of poetical inspiration.
The name Hesiod means 'He who emits the voice.' The personality behind the poems is argumentative, suspicious, ironically humorous, frugal, fond of proverbs, and wary of women. He resembles Solon, an Athenian statesman, in his preoccupation with issues of good versus evil and "how a just and all-powerful god can allow the unjust to flourish in this life."
Hesiod's patrimony, a small piece of ground at the foot of Mount Helicon, caused lawsuits with his brother Perses, who seems, at first, to have cheated him on his rightful share thanks to corrupt authorities but later became impoverish and ended up scrounging from the thrifty poet.