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    The Theogony (Greek: Θεογονία, Theogonía, i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods") is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and...
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    re-interpretation or re-reading of the myth of Dionysus and a re-ordering of Hesiod's Theogony, based in part on pre-Socratic philosophy. The suffering and death of the...
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    "Night") is the goddess and personification of the night. In Hesiod's Theogony, she is the offspring of Chaos, and the mother of Aether and Hemera (Day)...
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    ὁ Τῑτᾱ́ν, -ήν, ho Tītân) were the pre-Olympian gods. According to the Theogony of Hesiod, they were the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus...
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    Hesiod (section Theogony)
    Several of Hesiod's works have survived in their entirety. Among these are Theogony, which tells the origins of the gods, their lineages, and the events that...
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  • instead personifications of places or abstract concepts. Hesiod, in his Theogony, considers the first beings (after Chaos) to be Erebus, Gaia, Tartarus...
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    by whom the Iliad states that he fathered Aphrodite. According to the Theogony, Zeus' first wife was Metis, by whom he had Athena. Zeus was also infamous...
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    Fabulae Theogony 1–2 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95). Hard, p. 24; Gantz, p. 10; Hesiod Theogony 126–128. Hesiod, Theogony 132–153. Hesiod, Theogony 154–155...
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    Chronos (Time), and the brother of Chaos and Erebus. According to Hesiod's Theogony, which contained the "standard" Greek genealogy of the gods, Aether was...
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    was probably formed from the Greek βριαρός meaning "strong". Hesiod's Theogony also calls him "Obriareus". The name Gyges is possibly related to the mythical...
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