Mar 17, 2023 · The Theogony, composed by Hesiod around 700 BCE, is an early Greek epic. It describes in detail the beginnings of the cosmos, the origins and genealogies of the gods, and …

Mar 21, 2023 · In the Works and Days, as in the Theogony, Hesiod comes across as a curmudgeonly, pessimistic farmer with conservative ethical and religious values and a strong …

Mar 11, 2023 · According to Hesiod, Theogony 333–35. Other sources gave Ladon different parents. ↩; Hesiod, Theogony 295–97 (though the reading of these lines is disputed). ↩; …

Theogony The Theogony , composed by Hesiod around 700 BCE, is an early Greek epic. It describes in detail the beginnings of the cosmos, the origins and genealogies of the gods, and …

Mar 11, 2023 · An even more important literary source is Hesiod (eighth/seventh century BCE), who gives a catalogue of all fifty Nereids in the Theogony. References to the Nereids are …

Mar 9, 2023 · In the common account, known from Hesiod’s Theogony, Erebus was the child of Chaos, who begot him and his sister Nyx (“Night”) without a consort. Some traditions, …

Dec 9, 2022 · In his other great poem, the Theogony, Hesiod gives a similar (but slightly less detailed) description of the same myth (Hesiod, Theogony 570ff). ↩; Hesiod, Theogony 585, …

May 5, 2023 · Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.102ff; cf. Hesiod, Theogony 1001, Catalogue of Women frag. 40 Merkelbach-West; Pindar, Nemean Ode 3.54. ↩; It was said that the ghost of Phrixus, …

Jan 6, 2023 · Calypso, daughter of the Titan Atlas, was a Greek nymph and goddess. She lived on the island of Ogygia, where the hero Odysseus was shipwrecked on his way back from the …

Aug 1, 2023 · The earliest and most important literary source for Doris is Hesiod’s Theogony (eighth/seventh century BCE), which summarizes her genealogy and mythology. The Library , …