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The poem goes on to describe the beginning of the universe: Chasm and Earth come into being, followed by Tartara and Eros. Eros is to act as the implicit guiding force behind much of the rest of the poem, which focuses on successive generations of gods and goddesses being conceived and born.
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Hesiod’s poetic ability is implied to be an indirect gift...
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The “Theogony” (Gr: “Theogonia”) of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod is a didactic or instructional poem describing the origins of the cosmos and the complicated and interconnected genealogies of the gods of the ancient Greeks, as well as some of the stories around them.
Hesiod’s poetic ability is implied to be an indirect gift from Zeus, who grants the Muses the power to bestow artistic skill on worthy mortals. Hesiod begins the poem by emphasizing the cohesive nature of his world, one in which the human, the divine, and the natural comingle.
The Theogony is an epic poem by the archaic Greek poet Hesiod. It is both a theogony—or account of the origins of the gods—and a cosmogony, an explanation of the origins of the universe.
Hesiod’s poems, like that of Homer, draw their subject matter from myth and legend, detailing the struggles of gods, goddesses, and heroes, as well as more everyday influences such as agricultural and pastoral life in ancient Greece.
Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia - Loeb Classical Library In Theogony Hesiod charts the history of the divine world, narrating the origin of the universe and the rise of the gods, from first beginnings to the triumph of Zeus, ... a poem titled the Theogony, a cosmological work describing the origins and genealogy of the gods, Works and Days ...
Theogony and Works and Days Hesiod,2008-12-11 Hesiod who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC is one of the oldest known and possibly the oldest of Greek poets His Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the
