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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: 1 From the Helikonian 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
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 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 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:
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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.
A new, English translation of Hesiod’s Theogony describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods. Download options.
