Hesiod — The other great archaic Greek poet alongside Homer. His Theogony is the creation myth of the gods; his Works and Days gives us the myth of the Five Ages (Gold, Silver, Bronze, Heroic, Iron) — which maps directly onto the idea of the Fall. Hesiod claims the Muses themselves appeared to him on Mount Helicon and taught him to sing. He's arguably the first poet to describe his own divine calling.