Heshbon
a celebrated city of the Amorites, 20 miles E. of the mouth of the Jordan (Josh. ix:10; xiii:17). Its ruins are now called Hesban, and cover the sides of a hill 7 miles N. of Medeba.
HESIOD (he'si-od), one of the earliest Greek poets; born in Ascra, Bœotia, and usually supposed to have lived in the 8th century B. C. A family dispute drove him from Ascra, and he settled at Orchomenos. The works attributed to him are the poems entitled, "Works and Days," "Theogony," "Shield of Hercules," and the lost "Catalogue of Women." "Theogony" is an attempt to present a systematic view of the origin and powers of the gods, and of the order of nature. It is of great importance for the history of the religion of the Greeks.