 Modern scholars have accepted his identification of Amphidamas but disagreed with his conclusion.The date of the war is not known precisely but estimates placing it around 730–705 BC fit the estimated chronology for Hesiod.In that case, the tripod that Hesiod won might have been awarded for his rendition of "Theogony", a poem that seems to presuppose the kind of aristocratic audience he would have met at Chalcis.