late 7th century BCE) was an archaic Greek epic poet whose work is all but lost today.
ἐκ δὲ Ποσειδάωνος ἀγακλειτῆς τε Μιδείης Ἀσπληδὼν γένεθ' υἱὸς ἀν' εὐρύχορον πτολίεθρον.
This fragment suggests that Chersias, like his apparent contemporary Asius of Samos, composed in the genre of genealogical epic best represented today by the fragmentary Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.
[5] Pausanias goes on to relate that Chersias composed the epitaph which the Orchomenians inscribed upon the base of a statue they erected in Hesiod's honor:[6]
Ascra rich in wheat was his fatherland, but in death the land of the horsedriving Minyans holds the bones of Hesiod, whose fame is greatest among humans when men are judged by the touchstone of art.