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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:
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 “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 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.
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 COMPLETE. Translated with Notes by Evelyn-White. Elpenor 's notes added for this online publication, with an asterisk (*) Hesiod Bilingual Anthology Studies Hesiod in Print. 31 Pages.
Introduction. Cosmogonies narrate the origins of the universe (kosmos), and theogonies the origins of the gods (theoi). These two usually merge, as in the earliest attested exemplar of this genre in the classical world, Hesiod’s Theogony. These beginnings are often imagined as part of a creation process, hence taking the form of creation stories.
