Should We Believe Him When He Tells Us about Himself and His Family?

That's a Druid question.
He wasn't a shepherd
And the muses never
Kissed him on Helicon
As he, or someone else,
Asserted. Not a chance

Encounter ever missed
An opportunity
Like him. Uncertainty
Had to wait for such time
When sufficient decay
Of evidentiary

Testimony, data
Mining dwarves and fact-based
Arguments had elapsed
Before it could set in
His ways. Hesiod works,
If he works at all, days.