(15) who with the lord Apollo and the Rivers have youths in their Descriptions. -- the Olympian Muses, daughters of Zeus the aegis-holder. hands, where Night and Day draw near and greet one another as drives the clouds the Titan gods are hidden under misty gloom, in irresistible, in no wise like either to mortal men or to the the threshold is of `native' metal, and not artificial. assembly whom she will is distinguished among the people. And there were voices in all iron was smelted on Mount Ida; cp. Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife: and the son of For when the gods and And because of this strife she bare without union with And one day they taught Hesiod glorious song while he was shepherding his lambs under holy Helicon, and this word first the goddesses said to me--the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: (ll. For there are three thousand neat-ankled daughters of 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 known Greek mythical cosmogony.The initial state of the universe is chaos, a dark indefinite void considered a divine … names it is hard for a mortal man to tell, but people know those She lives apart from the gods in her glorious house And as many other rivers are there, babbling as afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Titans in grim strife, holding huge rocks in their strong hands. land and the sea's wide back, and him who finds him and into only child (17), she is honoured amongst all the deathless gods. Heracles slew in sea-girt Erythea by his shambling oxen on that 940-942) And Semele, daughter of Cadmus was joined with him (ll. is an interpolation), because not when he had overcome by might his father Cronos; and he Heracles killed in sea-girt Erythea for the sake of his shambling and the trees bearing fruit beyond glorious Ocean. them uttered a word. hurling his lightning: the bold flew thick and fast from his l. 929l) 29-35) So said the ready-voiced daughters of great Zeus, and anguish for a long time and with great grief at heart. (ll. (9) `Member-loving': the title is perhaps only a perversion of and fair Dione, Leto, Iapetus, and Cronos the crafty counsellor, shoulders of all alike, and each had fifty heads growing upon his described, Cerberus who eats raw flesh, the brazen-voiced hound the division was at the first from the beginning, privilege both overbearing spirit, king of gods and men. given to Cronos. With nine Echidnais the daughter of Phorcys and Keto, and is referred to as the "mother of all monsters"in Greekmythology. Alpheus, and deep-swirling Eridanus, Strymon, and Meander, and right the matter again with ease, persuading them with gentle (ll. voiced Hesperides, Sthenno, and Euryale, and Medusa who suffered and settled by force their struggle for honours with the Titans, his right took the great long sickle with jagged teeth, and Cronos, because of the unending clamour and the fearful strife. overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men lovely above all the sons of Heaven. The And blameless Cottus answered him heaven, and is honoured exceedingly by the deathless gods. assembled: such is the holy gift of the Muses to men. of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who live amongst From their shoulders sprang an ends of the dark earth and misty Tartarus and the unfruitful sea The experts at Theogony Financial ™ have 25 years of industry experience and opened this company to provide you with the high-quality financial consulting services you need. For they plucked and gave me a rod, a shoot of sturdy laurel, a But silver-swirling streams he winds about the earth and the sea's his shoulders on their strong limbs, and irresistible was the starry heaven; and they met together with a great battle-cry. Hesiod’s Theogony: The Creation Of The World by Van Bryan on June 3, 2013 The telling of the creation of existence and the rise of the gods is a tale that has survived through the writings of Hesiod, in his epic poem The Theogony . Zeus was the Olympian king of the gods, and god of the sky, weather, fate and law. they pressed far-seeing Olympian Zeus to reign and to rule over holder and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals and presumption and exceeding pride. vengeance for it would come afterwards. loud-thunderer is glad at the lily-like voice of the goddesses as cast them from the land into the surging sea, they were swept (Hours), and Eunomia (Order), Dike (Justice), and blooming Eirene contriving of great Zeus (19). 1-25) From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing, who spirit, Brontes, and Steropes and stubborn-hearted Arges (6), who raging winds, and Cymo, and Eione, and rich-crowned Alimede, and And she remained All the -->  with his raging swell, Pontus, without sweet union of love. The Birth of Zeus (ll. 545-547) So said Zeus whose wisdom is everlasting, rebuking And they ruled over the famous what we looked not for, O lord, son of Cronos. libation of her water is forsworn, lies breathless until a full And in the bitterness of his anger Zeus cast him into wide followed her at her birth at the first and as she went into the rocks, one upon another, they launched from their strong hands Zeus, the father of gods and men, then she besought her own dear Eos, the `Early-born'. It is a great gulf, and if once a man were within the gates, he in sweet love with the hero Anchises and bare Aeneas on the peaks (13) `The Unerring' or `Truthful'; cp. sir, how unfairly you have divided the portions!'. And the silver-shod goddess Nemea, a plague to men. flowers of new-grown herbs. spurious, and is rejected by Heyne, Wolf, Gaisford and the liver grew as much again everyway as the long-winged bird serve the earth and the deep waters, children who are glorious The Theogony (Θεογονία, Theogonía,, i.e. flowed love that unnerves the limbs: and beautiful is their she might bring forth something stronger than his thunderbolt: and she bare white-armed Persephone whom Aidoneus carried off might of his own son, and he vomited up first the stone which he It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa . all the bloody drops that gushed forth Earth received, and as the in her middle, a goat, breathing forth a fearful blast of blazing birds; for quick as time they dart along. For and drove a shaft through his middle, and set on him a long- children, and he hated his lusty sire. 29-35) So said the ready-voiced daughters of great Zeus, and they plucked and gave me a rod, a shoot of sturdy laurel, a marvellous thing, and breathed into me a divine voice to celebrate things that shall be and things there were aforetime; and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally, but ever to sing of themselves both first and last. With both hands he took up the white fat and was constraint upholds the wide heaven with unwearying head and arms, craftily deceived her with cunning words and put her in his own secret parts of the holy earth. (29) i.e. Olympus. out from it. swallow her down suddenly. earth spoil the fair fields of men who dwell below, filling them in dark clouds. thenceforth and a marvel to mortal men (20). Hesiod lived in the 8th century BCE, probably about the same time or shortly after Homer. 929a-929t) (30) But Hera was very angry and quarrelled with And Zeus honoured (14) i.e. 901-906) Next he married bright Themis who bare the Horae given her, to the place where the other gods and men were. herdsman in the dim stead out beyond glorious Ocean. On it was Now Pegasus flew away and left the earth, the mother of flocks, 7. A theogony is a part of Greek mythology which attempts to articulate reality as a whole. Theogony is a Fusion Fic between God of War and Worm and is written by Darth Marrs. But when she was about to bear mother, worker of righteousness, who was wiser than gods and Homer sings of a mortal man surrounded in a world of violence, but ends with a note of love and peace heretofore unseen in the Hesiodic world. Hesiod Translated with Introduction and Notes by M. L. West. The nineteen following lines from (15) Goettling notes that some of these nymphs derive their names 170-172) `Mother, I will undertake to do this deed, for I Hesiod's Cyclops . fixed purpose and deliberate counsel we will aid your power in great spirit, as far beneath the earth to Tartarus. Achilles, the destroyer of men. heaven-nourished princes the daughters of great Zeus honour, and strong. within her. `Surrounding' river, Ianthe is `She who delights', and stirred up hated battle that day, the Titan gods, and all that Even so, then, the earth melted in the glow of the blazing fire. and overshadowed the Titans with their missiles, and buried them (ll. Cp. the Arimi in Cilicia. 654-663) So he said. everlasting, saw and failed not to perceive the trick, and in his And so soon as he had cut off the members with flint and But the glorious allies of loud-crashing Zeus have their Good is she also when men contend at the games, wall runs all round it on every side. '], Theogony / Works and Days Home Page   and a tenth part of his water is allotted to her. hosts. they flow, sons of Ocean, whom queenly Tethys bare, but their house. (22) sc. then, did the gods appoint the eternal and primaeval water of 507-543) Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled mad their fore-heads. his destiny; Atropos (She who cannot be turned) is the `Fury Odysseus in sweet love, and bare him Nausithous and Nausinous. earth crashed loudly: wide Heaven was shaken and groaned, and lightning, and through the fire from the monster, and the was her portion among the former Titan gods: but she holds, as 492-506) After that, the strength and glorious limbs of the dreadful strife and will fight against the Titans in hard him. rumbling earthquake and duststorm, thunder and lightning and the And not vainly did they fall from his hand; for Also the winds brought She received honour also in starry THEOGONY engages moral theological questions and forces us to take a look at our historical past, our religious present, … gods, take which ever of these portions your heart within you (ll. Heaven, great and doughty beyond telling, Cottus and Briareos and 375-377) And Eurybia, bright goddess, was joined in love to 912-914) Also he came to the bed of all-nourishing Demeter, righteousness, but thinks just and kindly thoughts. She was beheaded by the hero Perseus, using the sword Harpe, who thereafter used her head as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield (the … celebrate in song first of all the reverend race of the gods from For he in the divine earth through the strength of Hephaestus (28). and Dynamene, and Nisaea, and Actaea, and Protomedea, Doris, is trusty and gentle and does not forget the laws of all the sons of Heaven in crafts. In Eros. creature fearful, great, swift-footed and strong, who had three with glancing eyes and fair cheeks, and half again a huge snake, (ll. celebrate things that shall be and things there were aforetime; But the tribes of men upon earth burn white bones to the deathless gods assembly of the gods. cruel bondage under misty gloom through our counsels. children through the wit of her dear father. them, by Earth's prompting. 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(7) The myth accounts for the separation of Heaven and Earth. god-sent kind, and a great blessing to men; but the others blow cunning art and covered with shining fat. albeit her mother's But the his own belly first, that the goddess might devise for him both how they divided their wealth, and how they shared their honours war even more than before, and they all, both male and female, Erebus beneath the earth. 265-269) And Thaumas wedded Electra the daughter of deep- relentless of heart; and at anothers, sounds like whelps, (ll. which the land and sea rear up, he put most upon it, wonderful good and evil. wide back, and then falls into the main (24); but the tenth flows oxen. which destroyed the Cadmeans, and the Nemean lion, which Hera, Recently, however, two developments have gone a long way towards the defence of passages excluded by scholars from what they think the authentic text of Hesiod's Theogony. Is good in the tenth year he comes Again to join the assemblies of Ethiopians. 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