Unlike Homer, Hesiod wrote with divine inspiration regarding his beliefs on the birth of the gods, rather than the Trojan War. Hesiod’s gods in Theogony and Works and Days portray features on the opposite of Homer’s gods’ spectrum. Rather than a negative outlook with actions being impulsive, Hesiod’s gods have orderly ones, with Divine Actions. In Theogony, Hesiod states that the gods “..breathed a sacred voice into [his] mouth/ with which to celebrate the things to come” (33-34). Instead of focusing on lies, Hesiod portrays actions from the God’s as truthful, so they’re worthy of belief. Homer portrayed his gods in a sense in which they were not worthy of belief due to their ordinary characteristics. The idea that Wickedness does not pay
