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    The Theogony (Greek: Θεογονία, Theogonía, i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods") is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and...
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    "Night") is the goddess and personification of the night. In Hesiod's Theogony, she is the offspring of Chaos, and the mother of Aether and Hemera (Day)...
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    re-interpretation or re-reading of the myth of Dionysus and a re-ordering of Hesiod's Theogony, based in part on pre-Socratic philosophy. The suffering and death of the...
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    Hesiod (section Theogony)
    explicit references in Works and Days, as well as some passages in his Theogony, that support inferences made by scholars. The former poem says that his...
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    ὁ Τῑτᾱ́ν, -ήν, ho Tītân) were the pre-Olympian gods. According to the Theogony of Hesiod, they were the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus...
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    Chronos (Time), and the brother of Chaos and Erebus. According to Hesiod's Theogony, which contained the "standard" Greek genealogy of the gods, Aether was...
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  • instead personifications of places or abstract concepts. Hesiod, in his Theogony, considers the first beings (after Chaos) to be Erebus, Gaia, Tartarus...
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    was probably formed from the Greek βριαρός meaning "strong". Hesiod's Theogony also calls him "Obriareus". The name Gyges is possibly related to the mythical...
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    by whom the Iliad states that he fathered Aphrodite. According to the Theogony, Zeus' first wife was Metis, by whom he had Athena. Zeus was also infamous...
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    Fabulae Theogony 1–2 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95). Hard, p. 24; Gantz, p. 10; Hesiod Theogony 126–128. Hesiod, Theogony 132–153. Hesiod, Theogony 154–155...
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  • gloom"'), or Erebos, is the personification of darkness. In Hesiod's Theogony, he is the offspring of Chaos, and the father of Aether and Hemera (Day)...
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    Gantz, pp. 99–100. Hesiod, Theogony 126–8 Hesiod, Theogony 131–2 Hesiod, Theogony 129–30 Hesiod, Theogony 233–9 Hesiod, Theogony 820–2 Euripides, Iphigenia...
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    151 by Hyginus, the Metamorphoses (book VI 339 by Ovid; IX 648), and the Theogony 319ff by Hesiod. Virgil, in the Aeneid (book 5) employs Chimaera for the...
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  • the twelve or thirteen Titans, the children of Gaia and Uranus. In the Theogony, Uranus imprisoned all the children that Gaia bore him, before he was overthrown...
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    s.v. "Charis". Hesiod, Theogony 240–264; Apollodorus, 1.2.7. Hesiod, Theogony 286–288; Apollodorus, 2.5.10. Hesiod, Theogony 351, however according to...
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    separate entities in Hesiod's Theogony, Hemera and Eos (Dawn) were often identified with each other. In Hesiod's Theogony, Hemera and her brother Aether...
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  • Greek mythological figures List of Greek mythological creatures Hesiod’s Theogony There are conflicting stories regarding the origins of Eros. Eros is usually...
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  • gaping space below the Earth on which Earth rests." Passages in Hesiod's Theogony suggest that Chaos was located below Earth but above Tartarus. Primal Chaos...
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    Hesiod's Theogony (seventh century BC), they were daughters of Zeus, king of the gods, and Mnemosyne, Titan goddess of memory. Hesiod in Theogony narrates...
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    creatures. Three groups of Cyclopes can be distinguished. In Hesiod's Theogony, the Cyclopes are the three brothers Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, who...
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    Pandora (section Theogony)
    dramatists, painters and sculptors made her their subject. Hesiod, both in his Theogony (briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570) and in Works and Days...
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    Georgics 4.343 Hesiod, Theogony 349–361; Apollodorus, 1.2.2 Virgil, Georgics 4.341; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 41.153 Hesiod, Theogony 349–361; Homeric Hymn to...
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    According to Hesiod, Theogony 507–511, Clymene, one of the Oceanids, the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, at Hesiod, Theogony 351, was the mother by...
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    “to burn”. "Astraea" shares this same etymology. According to Hesiod's Theogony and Bibliotheca, Astraeus is a second-generation Titan descended from Crius...
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    Even Hera addressed her as "Lady Themis". Themis occurred in Hesiod's Theogony as the first recorded appearance of Justice as a divine personage. Drawing...
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    tree varies by author. The oldest genealogy relating to Echidna, Hesiod's Theogony (c. 8th – 7th century BC), is unclear on several points. According to Hesiod...
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    and that other, because he held a golden blade in his hands. — Hesiod, Theogony In Greek mythology, Medusa was one of the Gorgons, three monstrous siblings...
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    Apollodorus, 1.2.6. Hesiod, Theogony 956–957; Apollodorus, 1.9.1. Hesiod, Theogony 958–962; Apollodorus, 1.9.23. Hesiod, Theogony 286–288; Apollodorus, 2...
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    had four other offspring, Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys and Eurybia. Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Ceto and Phorcys as the two Graiae: Pemphredo and...
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    262–263. OCLC 13809803. Retrieved 2018-04-10. Hesiod, Theogony 929 Scholia on Hesiod's Theogony 886 Keightley, p. 153, note b. Apollodorus, 1.3.6. Gantz...
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