Hesiod was born in Greece. During his childhood, he was sung ad nauseam Homer's poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey (along with the 8 others that have since been forgotten because they were either extremely boring or because they were burnt by jealous fake-poets, such as Hesiod) It is taught that he set forth to become a better, and worse, poet than Homer because of these constant reminders of the Prisonner's poetry because of this constant reminder of his poetry that includes gods loving, helping and hating men and being more passionate than the pityful species. Since the great mojority of people at his time taught that as well, it is common belief that he actually found those peoms credible.