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Epic, Didactic [1] Lines. 1022. The Theogony (Greek: Θεογονία, Theogonía, [2] i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods " [3]) is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. 730–700 BC. [4] It is written in the Epic dialect of Ancient Greek and contains 1022 lines.
t. e. In Greek mythology, the Titans (Ancient Greek: οἱ Τῑτᾶνες, hoi Tītânes, singular: ὁ Τῑτᾱ́ν, -ήν, ho Tītân) were the pre-Olympian gods. [1] According to the Theogony of Hesiod, they were the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), with six male Titans— Oceanus, Coeus, Crius ...
Perses, Pallas. Consort. Eos. Offspring. Boreas, Notus, Zephyrus, Eosphorus, Astraea. In Greek mythology, Astraeus (/ əˈstriːəs /) or Astraios (Ancient Greek: Ἀστραῖος means "starry" [1]) is an astrological deity. Some also associate him with the winds, as he is the father of the four Anemoi (wind deities), by his wife, Eos.
Theogony. Shield of Heracles. Hesiod (/ ˈhiːsiəd / HEE-see-əd or / ˈhɛsiəd / HEH-see-əd; [3] Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. [4][5] Several of Hesiod's works have survived in their entirety.
Hesiod also adds more information to Theogony ' s story of the first woman, a maiden crafted from earth and water by Hephaestus now explicitly called Pandora ("all gifts") . Zeus in this case gets the help of Athena, Aphrodite, Hermes, the Graces and the Hours . After Prometheus steals the fire, Zeus sends Pandora in retaliation.
e. In Greek mythology, Erebus (/ ˈɛrəbəs /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἔρεβος, romanized: Érebos, lit. '"darkness, gloom"'), [2] 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) by Nyx (Night); in other Greek cosmogonies, he is the father of Aether ...
The Titans were then imprisoned in Tartarus with the Hundred-Handers as their guards. [25] The lost epic poem the Titanomachy (see below), although probably written after Hesiod's Theogony, [26] perhaps preserved an older tradition in which the Hundred-Handers fought on the side of the Titans, rather than the Olympians. [27]
Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Phorcys and Ceto as the Graeae (naming only two: Pemphredo, and Enyo), the Gorgons (Stheno, Euryale and Medusa), [6] probably Echidna (though the text is unclear on this point) [7] and Ceto's "youngest, the awful snake who guards the apples all of gold in the secret places of the dark earth at its great bounds", [8] also called the Drakon Hesperios ...