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Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BCE) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...
Linus's parentage was variously given in ancient sources as: (1) Muse Calliope and Oeagrus or Apollo, [3] (2) Muse Urania [4] and Apollo, [5] (3) Urania and Amphimarus, son of Poseidon, [6] (4) the river-god Ismenius, (5) Urania and Hermes, [7] (6) Muse Terpsichore and Apollo, [2] (7) Muse Clio and Magnes, [8] (8) Pierus, [9] (9) Apollo and Aethusa, [10] daughter of Poseidon, [11] and lastly ...
Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.
Classical mythology, also known as Greco-Roman mythology or Greek and Roman mythology, is the collective body and study of myths from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans. Mythology, along with philosophy and political thought , is one of the major survivals of classical antiquity throughout later, including modern, Western culture . [ 1 ]
The term Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the Works and Days of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples through five Ages, Gold being the first and the one during which the Golden Race of humanity (Greek: χρύσεον γένος chrýseon génos) [1] lived.
The Greek Heroic Age, in mythology, is the period between the coming of the Greeks to Thessaly and the Greek warriors' return from Troy. [1] The poet Hesiod ( fl. c. 700 BCE ) identified this mythological era as one of his five Ages of Man .
Ninus was first identified in the Recognitions (part of Clementine literature) with the biblical Nimrod, who, the author says, taught the Persians to worship fire. In many modern interpretations of the Hebrew text of Genesis 10, it is Nimrod, the son of Cush , who founded Nineveh, though other translations (e.g., the KJV ) render the same ...
This new race of humans were sometimes identified with the Leleges, a supposed pre-Greek people of the Aegean. She-bear: Woman: Unclear In some versions, after the death of Procris, Cephalus asked an oracle whether he would have offspring. The oracle told him that in order to get children, he should mate with the first female being he saw.