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Theogony

Also known as Hes. Th.

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.

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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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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: Ancient Greek
Poem.subject: Greek mythology, Ancient Greek religion
Poem.genre: Epic, Didactic
Poem.lines: 1022
Poem.orig_lang_code: el
Poem.native_wikisource: Θεογονία
Poem.wikisource: Theogony

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Image: Esiodo, teogonia, con illustrazioni di gustave moreau, parigi, a. lemerre, 1869, esiodo e la musa.jpg

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title: Θεογονία
Commons category: Theogony
inception: 0700-01-01
first line: Μουσάων Ἑλικωνιάδων ἀρχώμεθ᾽ ἀείδειν
entry in abbreviations table: Hes. Th.

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Contents

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

==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.