 For example, it is quite common for works of moral instruction to have an imaginative setting, as a means of getting the audience's attention, but it could be difficult to see how Hesiod could have travelled around the countryside entertaining people with a narrative about himself if the account was known to be fictitious.Gregory Nagy, on the other hand, sees both "Pérsēs" ("the destroyer" from , "pérthō") and "Hēsíodos" ("he who emits the voice" from , "híēmi" and , "audḗ") as fictitious names for poetical personae.It might seem unusual that Hesiod's father migrated from Asia Minor westwards to mainland Greece, the opposite direction to most colonial movements at the time, and Hesiod himself gives no explanation for it.