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Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells how they came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos. It is the first known Greek mythical cosmogony.
HESIOD was a Greek epic poet who flourished in Boeotia in the C8th B.C. He was alongside Homer the most respected of the old Greek poets. His works included a poem titled the Theogony, a cosmological work describing the origins and genealogy of the gods, Works and Days, on the subjects of farming, morality and country life, and a large number ...
Hesiod, Theogony, line 1. From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing, who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon, and dance on soft feet about the deep-blue spring and the altar of the almighty son of Cronos, [5] and, when they have washed their tender bodies in Permessus or in the Horse's Spring or Olmeius, make their fair, lovely dances ...
Theogony is a didactic poem by Hesiod that describes the origins of the cosmos and the gods of ancient Greece. It covers the creation of Chaos, Gaia, Ouranos, Kronos, Zeus and their offspring, as well as the stories of some monsters and heroes.
Theogony is a poem by Hesiod that tells the story of the origin and genealogy of the Greek gods. It begins with the Muses inspiring Hesiod to sing of the divine world, and then traces the conflicts and alliances among the gods, from the primordial deities to Zeus and his siblings.
Dec 19, 2017 · The Theogony is an 8th-century BCE didactic and instructional poem, credited to the Greek poet Hesiod. The Theogony was, at first, not actually written down, rather, it was part of a rich oral tradition which only achieved written form decades later.
…Greek poet Hesiod in his Theogony (and the later Roman version of the same event given in Ovid’s Metamorphoses). The two traditions thus start with an adequate source of cosmic imagery, and both envisage a universe full of mysterious signs and symbolic strata.
