Theogony

An ancient Greek poem by Hesiod recounting the origins and genealogy of the gods and the ordering of the cosmos.

Hesiod: An ancient Greek poet traditionally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE. He presents the poem’s account of divine origins and claims to speak with the Muses’ authority.
Uranus: The primordial Greek god of the sky and consort of Gaia. His rule ends when Cronus overthrows him, beginning a recurring pattern of succession.
Works and Days: A didactic poem by Hesiod on farming, justice, and human life. It is the other major surviving poem attributed to Hesiod.
The birth of Aphrodite: A Greek myth explaining Aphrodite’s birth from the sea after Uranus is castrated. This episode links a violent succession act to the emergence of a major goddess.
Muses: Nine goddesses of song, poetry, and knowledge in Greek mythology. They inspire Hesiod and authorize his account of the gods’ origins.
Cronus: A Titan who overthrows Uranus and later loses power to his son Zeus. His rise and fall form the poem’s central cycle of divine succession.
Archaic Greece: The period of Greek history conventionally dated from about 800 to 480 BCE. The poem belongs to the era when Greek epic poetry took written form.
Theogony 116–138: The passage of Hesiod’s poem that names the first cosmic beings and describes their emergence. It gives the poem’s foundational sequence from Chaos to the first divine generations.
Greek mythology: The body of myths about gods, heroes, and the cosmos in ancient Greek culture. The poem organizes many myths into a genealogy and cosmic history.
Titanomachy: The war between Zeus and the Titans for control of the cosmos. The conflict establishes Zeus’s rule after the earlier generations’ violent succession.

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