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The "Theogony" is essentially a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods and the universe, organized as a narrative that tells about the creation of the world out of Chaos and about the gods that shaped the cosmos. To some extent,... Read Full Overview

La Teogon a es una obra po tica escrita por Hes odo y relata la genealog a de los dioses de la mitolog a griega. Contiene una de las m s antiguas versiones del origen del cosmos y el linaje de los dioses griegos, y es una de las obras claves de la pica grecolatina. Se discute... Read Full Overview

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 Greek mythical cosmogony. The initial... Read Full Overview

Hesiod's Theogony is one of the earliest surviving works of Greek literature and the foundational account of the origins of the gods in ancient Greek mythology.

Composed in the eighth or seventh century BCE, Theogony presents a sweeping poetic narrative... Read Full Overview

Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet who was throught to have lived around the same time as Homer. Hesiod is considered to be the first economist and he was also a key source of Greek mythology, farming techniques and ancient time-keeping. Hesiod's poem Theogony is about the origins... Read Full Overview

Along with Homer, Hesiod was one of the Ancient Greeks' first epic bards, and one of their best. Hesiod is believed to have lived between 750 and 650 B.C., and along with Homer it was Hesiod's work that was the oldest to survive in Ancient Greece. It is still unclear which one... Read Full Overview

Hesiod's Theogony is one of the earliest surviving works of Greek literature and the foundational account of the origins of the gods in ancient Greek mythology.

Composed in the eighth or seventh century BCE, Theogony presents a sweeping poetic narrative... Read Full Overview

Hesiod: Theogonie Entstanden im 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Hier in der bers. v. Rudolf Peppm ller, Halle a.d.S.: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1896. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2017. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe:... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

La Theogonie est le chant qu'eleve en l'honneur des dieux Immortels un poete beotien inspire par les Muses. Dans ce poeme d'epoque archaique, Hesiode celebre l'ordre divin du monde en racontant la formation de l'univers, la succession des generations divines et la repartition... Read Full Overview

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Die Theogonie ist ein Werk von Hesiod. Er ist mit Homer der legend?rste Dichter des altgriechische Epos.

Die Theogonie ist eine Zusammenstellung verschiedener Mythen. Hesiod erz?hlt die Geschichte von der Erschaffung der Erde und der ersten G?tter. Im Zentrum... Read Full Overview