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Theogony

Myth & story

Hesiod’s Greek poem of the gods’ births, Titanomachy, and Zeus’s order. Not works-and-days as the farm-calendar twin, and not creation as a bare concept.

Also known as Hesiod’s Theogony

Hellenic religion

  • Theogony appears in Hellenic religion.

    Hesiod’s Theogony is the Archaic Greek poem of divine genealogy, Titanomachy, and Zeus’s order. A named Hellenic cosmogonic text in that tradition, not works-and-days as the farm-calendar twin and not creation as a bare concept.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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