This volume had its origin in a conference in Leiden in 2016, with some new contributions. The collection is a very fine exception to the tendency of conference volumes to be frustrating to read straight through even when individual papers are excellent. Of course individual readers will be more interested in some contributions than in others, but while the chapters are quite different in their specific concerns the volume is coherent not only in its overall topic but in aspects of its approach to the question of how we should locate Hesiod in relation to the Presocratics. It moves away from the traditional formulation of a transition from mythos to logos and from the relatively crude question of whether we should emphasize that Hesiod composed mythical genealogies and so belongs to a pre-rational strain of thought or instead that he creates a totalizing system that anticipates later efforts to comprehend the whole of nature. Instead, it tries both to rethink the questions and to examine particular ways that later thinkers engaged with Hesiod.