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THEOGONY . Or, Birth of the Gods, By Hesiod (c. 700 BCE) Translated by: Hugh G. Evelyn-White . Textural corrections, additions and notes by Barry F. Vaughan1. PROLOGUE: .
the introduction of a written alphabet. His two major surviving works, the Theogony and the Works and Days, address the divine and the mundane, respectively. The Theogony traces the origins of the Greek gods and recounts the events surrounding the crowning of Zeus as their king. A manual of moral instruction in verse, the Works and Days was ...
The strand known as " Orphic " cosmogony or theogony runs parallel to the mainstream epic tradition (not without intersections), and underscores the connection between cosmogonic ideas and spiritual and philosophical movements.
Hesiod – Theogony From: Hesiod. The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Theogony. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. Source:
HESIOD, THEOGONY. 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 ...
Hesiod's Theogony, written by the ancient Greek poet around 700 BC, describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods. A new, downloadable translation by Christopher Kelk.
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.
