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The Theogony (Ancient 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]
Demeter is notable as the mother of Persephone, described by both Hesiod and in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter as the result of a union with her younger brother Zeus. [83] An alternate recounting of the matter appears in a fragment of the lost Orphic theogony, which preserves part of a myth in which Zeus mates with his mother, Rhea , in the form ...
In Hesiod's Theogony, Hemera and her brother Aether were the offspring of Erebus and Nyx. [2] Bacchylides apparently had Hemera as the daughter of Chronus (Time) and Nyx. [ 3 ] In the lost epic poem the Titanomachy (late seventh century BC?), [ 4 ] Hemera was perhaps the mother, by Aether, of Uranus (Sky). [ 5 ]
Despoina or Despoena (/ d ɛ s ˈ p iː n ə /; [1] Greek: Δέσποινα, romanized: Déspoina) was the epithet of a goddess worshipped by the Eleusinian Mysteries in Ancient Greece as the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon and the sister of Arion. [2]
Hesiod (/ ˈ h iː s i ə d / HEE-see-əd or / ˈ h ɛ s i ə d / HEH-see-əd; [3] Ancient Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos; fl. c. 700 BC) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. [1] [2] Several of Hesiod's works have survived in their entirety.
Hesiod goes on to say that these "are the eldest ... but there are many besides" and that there were "three thousand" Oceanids, [2] a number interpreted as meaning "innumerable". [3] While some of these names, such as Peitho , Metis and Tyche , certainly reflected existing traditions, many were probably mere poetic inventions. [ 4 ]
A votive plaque known as the Ninnion Tablet depicting elements of the Eleusinian Mysteries, discovered in the sanctuary at Eleusis (mid-4th century BC). The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια, romanized: Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Eleusis in ancient Greece.
Son of Ptolemy IX; deposed in 58 BCE Reigned briefly with his daughter Cleopatra VII before his death in 51 BC 80–58 BC [148] and. 55–51 BC [148] — Cleopatra V Tryphaena: Wife of Ptolemy XII, mother of Berenice IV: 79–68 BC — Cleopatra VI: Supposed daughter of Ptolemy XII, theorised by some Egyptologists to actually be the same person ...