Theogony
Sign in to saveThe Theogony () is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed . It is written in the epic dialect of Ancient Greek and contains 1,022 lines. It is one of the most important sources for the understanding of early Greek cosmology.
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"Theogony" is an ancient Greek poem by Hesiod that traces the origins and family tree of the Greek gods, written in the epic style of the 8th–7th century BC. It stands as one of our most important sources for understanding how early Greeks conceived of the cosmos and the divine realm.
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- Author
- Hesiod
- First published
- 1953
- Editions
- 28
- Subjects
- Translations into English, Poetry, Greek Gods, Greek Religious poetry, Greek Didactic poetry, Agriculture, Greek poetry, Translations from Greek
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Key facts
- Poem.name
- Theogony
- Poem.author
- Hesiod
- Poem.image
- File:Hesiod, Theogony, Venice, Gr. 464.jpg
- Poem.caption
- Fourteenth-century Greek manuscript of Hesiod's Theogony with scholia written in the margins
- Poem.original_title
- Θεογονία
- Poem.written
- 8th century BC
- Poem.language
Article
24 sectionsContents
- Description
- The succession myth
- The genealogies
- The first gods
- Children of Gaia and Uranus
- Children of Gaia and Uranus' blood, and Uranus' genitals
- Descendants of Nyx
- Descendants of Gaia and Pontus
- Descendants of Echidna and Typhon
- Descendants of the Titans
- Children of Zeus and his seven partners
- Other descendants of divine fathers
- Children of divine mothers with mortal fathers
- Prometheus
- Manuscripts
- Influence on earliest Greek philosophy
- Christian views of the Theogony
- Other cosmogonies in ancient literature
- Editions
- Selected translations
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
The Theogony () is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed . It is written in the epic dialect of Ancient Greek and contains 1,022 lines. It is one of the most important sources for the understanding of early Greek cosmology.
==Description== 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. The initial state of the universe is chaos, a dark indefinite void considered a divine primordial condition from which everything else appeared. Theogonies are a part of Greek mythology which embodies the desire to articulate reality as a whole, to describe the entire universe and its coming into being. This universalizing impulse was fundamental to the first later (and indeed ongoing) projects of speculative theorizing.