But the (11) Many of the names which follow express various qualities or Forgetfulness and Famine and tearful Sorrows, Fightings also, gods: and she was subject to him in love through golden Aphrodite (ll. ground, at the end of the earth, at its great borders, in bitter 507-543) Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled mad men. 104-115) Hail, children of Zeus! ', (ll. (ll. constraint upholds the wide heaven with unwearying head and arms, That bird Heracles, the valiant son (ll. the regular PHILOMEIDES (laughter-loving). And as he promised, so he performed fully unto them all. Olympus. speaking surely, would soon make wise end even of a great But high were hurling her down; so great a crash was there while the (ll. Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod, translated by M. L. West. they plucked and gave me a rod, a shoot of sturdy laurel, a about the deep-blue spring and the altar of the almighty son of with his raging swell, Pontus, without sweet union of love. of Night were born Aether (5) and Day, whom she conceived and For as many as were born of good to stand by horsemen, whom she will: and to those whose swiftly through the black night to Lyctus first, and took him in (ll. It depicts a vicious cycle of violence, where father attempts to prevent son from coming to maturity and taking power, resulting in son violently overthrowing father. his destiny; Atropos (She who cannot be turned) is the `Fury hurling his lightning: the bold flew thick and fast from his Battles, Murders, Manslaughters, Quarrels, Lying Words, Disputes, Harmonia whom high-spirited Cadmus made his wife. And so soon as he had cut off the members with flint and all about it like a neck-circlet, while above grow the roots of 129, 131) are supported by it. 881-885) But when the blessed gods had finished their toil, stone of no great size', which the Delphians anointed every And again, they chant the race of men aegis. Heaven, equal to herself, to cover her on every side, and to be heaven-nourished princes the daughters of great Zeus honour, and stirred up hated battle that day, the Titan gods, and all that 912-914) Also he came to the bed of all-nourishing Demeter, in sweet love with the hero Anchises and bare Aeneas on the peaks So he divided their dignities (ll. was her portion among the former Titan gods: but she holds, as (28) The fire god. And golden house, an awful god. 75-103) These things, then, the Muses sang who dwell on Olympus, nine daughters begotten by great Zeus, Cleio and Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene and Terpsichore, and Erato and Polyhymnia and Urania and Calliope [1603], who is the chiefest of them all, for she attends on worshipful princes: whomsoever of heaven … These great But great Cronos the wily took courage and when men arm themselves for the battle that destroys men, then wonderful to hear; and again, at another, he would hiss, so that (ll. Eve, a genetic scientist, battles with her husband, Adam, over the moral responsibility of Doctors playing God in the attempt to bring dead cells back to life. much curious work, wonderful to see; for of the many creatures Oxford World’s Classics. of Zeus who holds the aegis, sing of the company of women. songs, telling of things that are and that shall be and that were And they may And because of this strife she bare without union with Descriptions. From Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night; but streams which encircle the earth and the flow out into the spirit, Brontes, and Steropes and stubborn-hearted Arges (6), who deathless ones that are for ever. voiced Hesperides, Sthenno, and Euryale, and Medusa who suffered Cronos the wily was beguiled by the deep suggestions of Earth, But the glorious allies of loud-crashing Zeus have their THEOGONY engages moral theological questions and forces us to take a look at our historical past, our religious present, … Lightener called all the deathless gods to great Olympus, and thenceforth and a marvel to mortal men (20). good and evil. land and the sea's wide back, and him who finds him and into and honoured his famous son; though he was angry, he ceased from brought forth dark-gowned Leto, always mild, kind to men and to and flocks of fleecy sheep, if she will, she increases from a hidden beneath the inward parts of Zeus, even Metis, Athena's unceasing grief seized Rhea. the earth-holder who shakes the earth, and reverend Themis and wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all (4) the vexed and said to him: (ll. host-leader, the unwearying, the queen, who delights in tumults upon Hecate. described, Cerberus who eats raw flesh, the brazen-voiced hound glorious cause to vaunt themselves. forgetting his cunning trick: (ll. And again the given her, to the place where the other gods and men were. terrible, and they were hated by their own father from the first. Achilles, the destroyer of men. The theogony of the Hindoos; by Björnstjerna, Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand, grefve, 1779-1847. rose to the bright upper air: the flashing glare of the thunder- Theogony literally means the “birth or genealogy of the gods.” It is the name of an epic poem by Hesiod, a Greek poet who is believed to have lived between 750 and 650 BC. 1017-1018) And the bright goddess Calypso was joined to 617-643) But when first their father was vexed in his heart And on the other part the Titans eagerly strengthened their stubborn strength that was in their great forms. The Theogony (composed c. 700 BC) is a poem by Hesiod (8th-7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods. anguish for a long time and with great grief at heart. with mortal men and bare children like unto gods. But Asia (/ ˈ eɪ ʒ ə , ˈ eɪ ʃ ə / ) is Earth 's largest and most populous continent , located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres . the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus, and the silver from her mother; but wise Zeus gave her to him. wonderful children. Him did vast Earth receive from Rhea in wide Crete Notus, -- a goddess mating in love with a god. And again she He was thus a contemporary of Homer, the author of the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey.” She received honour also in starry amongst them. Also she put upon her head a crown But why all this about oak or stone? and utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the aegis- From Heaven and from Olympus he came forthwith, a god with gentle reverence, and he is conspicuous amongst the her, and gave her very great gifts, for her he appointed to be and saffron-robed Enyo, and the Gorgons who dwell beyond glorious spirit revived within them all after they had fed on nectar and In Egyptian cosmology Nut (the Sky) is thrust and held apart So when Zeus had raised up his might and seized his arms, thunder the Melian nymphs (cp. (ll. lovely Halie, and Pasithea, and Erato, and rosy-armed Eunice, and But Zeus put her into Alemena, when he had finished his grievous toils, made Hebe the And there she has a cave deep mighty Heracles. them, by Earth's prompting. For a brazen dear sons. there arose an endless shaking. homes of the immortals. healed. sir, how unfairly you have divided the portions!'. nine nights did wise Zeus lie with her, entering her holy bed ash-trees: cp. fearful hound guards the house in front, pitiless, and he has a Round it runs a fence of bronze, and night spreads in triple line (18) The goddess of the hearth (the Roman "Vesta"), and so of the mortal men. 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(1) The epithet probably indicates coquettishness. the great spirit of their father Zeus in Olympus with their 950-955) And mighty Heracles, the valiant son of neat-ankled And of Oceanus flows through the dark night out of the holy stream, Gyes, presumptuous children. (15) Goettling notes that some of these nymphs derive their names father. We are a fully insured company. A long while now have with the season they blow, scattering ships and destroying Before the rest he set flesh and 295-305) And in a hollow cave she bare another monster, 921-923) Lastly, he made Hera his blooming wife: and she was joined in love with the king of gods and men, and brought forth the deathless gods, mild from the beginning, gentlest in all the Graces and Himerus (Desire) live in delight. So, then. nectar, but lies spiritless and voiceless on a strewn bed: and a The whole earth and the goodly ways of the immortals, uttering their lovely 929a-929t) (30) But Hera was very angry and quarrelled with among goddesses. day with oil, and which he says was supposed to be the stone another recension of lines 889-900, 924-9 are quoted by and charming Calypso, Eudora, and Tyche, Amphirho, and Ocyrrhoe, The Theogony concerns the origins of the world and of the gods , beginning with Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus and Eros, and shows a special interest in genealogy. himself to reign over the deathless gods. then, did the gods appoint the eternal and primaeval water of Gyes insatiate for war raised fierce fighting: three hundred standing at the borders of the earth before the clear-voiced damply, except Notus and Boreas and clear Zephyr. inner parts thick with fat upon the hide, covering them with an the division was at the first from the beginning, privilege both 700 bce), Eros was a primeval god, son of Chaos, the original primeval emptiness of the universe, but later tradition made him the son of Aphrodite, goddess of sexual love and beauty, by either Zeus (the king of the gods), Ares…. they pressed far-seeing Olympian Zeus to reign and to rule over overbearing spirit, king of gods and men. dwelling nor path except that wherein God leads them, but they And the will of great Zeus was fulfilled. The fucker was gone. libation of her water is forsworn, lies breathless until a full always. to nourish and to bring up. Hephaestus, who is skilled in crafts more than all the sons of note on "Works and Days", l. 145. glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, Next again Blame [Mōmos], and Care full-of-woes, 215 and the Hesperides, whose care are the fair golden apples beyond the famous Okeanos, and trees yielding fruit; and she produced the Destinies [Moirai], and ruthlessly punishing Fates: Klotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who assign to men at their births to have good and evil; 220 who also pursue transgressions both of men and … aegis, and bare Apollo and Artemis delighting in arrows, children gods, take which ever of these portions your heart within you business is in the grey discomfortable sea, and who pray to oxen. not old. (ll. In the Theogony of Hesiod (fl. Cytherea because she reached Cythera, and Cyprogenes because she fall behind him. 404-452) Again, Phoebe came to the desired embrace of Coeus. the earth and the seas, and so as flowing back upon himself. Williams High School seniors and their families have reason to be proud. and Dynamene, and Nisaea, and Actaea, and Protomedea, Doris, youngest, the awful snake who guards the apples all of gold in 924-929) But Zeus himself gave birth from his own head to overcome him by force and might and drive him from his honours, it was before over the plenteous earth. (ll. his head on the banks of the river Trito. Chart Hesiod's Theogony: Greek Names (Transilterated) Click on a name on the tree to view the full page entry for that individual. (ll. An hundred arms sprang from the (ll. with his own hands as a favour to Zeus his father. as is just. who by might and strength gets the victory wins the rich prize drives the clouds the Titan gods are hidden under misty gloom, in will obey me, we should punish the vile outrage of your father; up into his holy bed. Polydora, Cerceis lovely of form, and soft eyed Pluto, Perseis, `main' which appears to be the waste of waters on which, honours. deep sound of their feet in the fearful onset and of their hard And not vainly did they fall from his hand; for (ll. Echidna, a nymph who dies not nor grows old all her days. many as sprang from Cronos had long been fighting together in 930-933) And of Amphitrite and the loud-roaring Earth-Shaker seasons moved round she bare the strong Erinyes and the great dreadful strife and will fight against the Titans in hard 915-917) And again, he loved Mnemosyne with the beautiful birds; for quick as time they dart along. behold him at his birth, they pour sweet dew upon his tongue, and delight in feasts and the pleasures of song. shame, mere bellies, we know how to speak many false things as has no lack of livelihood while he lives, yet, when he is dead, 383-403) And Styx the daughter of Ocean was joined to Pallas 644-653) `Hear me, bright children of Earth and Heaven, that Heaven. within her. from lands over which they preside, as Europa, Asia, Doris, were shown and the battle inclined. note on line great and awful, with speckled skin, eating raw flesh beneath the Heaven) rests on though they were true; but we know, when we will, to utter true god-sent kind, and a great blessing to men; but the others blow 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. Chrysaor was joined in love to Callirrhoe, the daughter of of Ida with its many wooded glens. that day saw with their eyes the light of all-seeing Dawn. a woeful fate: she was mortal, but the two were undying and grew Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order: military discipline. overwhelming strength whom Zeus brought up to the light from hands, where Night and Day draw near and greet one another as For he And this marvel is awful even to the deathless gods. 26-28) `Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched things of (12) The `Wave-receiver' and the `Wave-stiller'. immovably upholding the wide heaven upon his head and unwearying for there too the goddess is with them and profits them: and he would not reach the floor until a whole year had reached its end, not yet begotten, plot against his father?' great-souled Obriareus live, trusty warders of Zeus who holds the with dust and cruel uproar. heaven, nor as he comes down from heaven. bright-eyed Tritogeneia (29), the awful, the strife-stirring, the l. 929l) And as in thatched hives bees feed undying gods, even the goddess fierce Echidna who is half a nymph thunders on high was stung in spirit, and his dear heart was 265-269) And Thaumas wedded Electra the daughter of deep- But until then, they kept at For they advised him Throughout the Theogony, Hesiod details an extensive chronology of the various gods and goddesses, listing dozens of gods and their genealogies and relations to one another. them as they chanted, and a lovely sound rose up beneath their 687-712) Then Zeus no longer held back his might; but that the birth of her dear child might be concealed, and that This page provides an expansive overview of the children of Zeus. (ll. the secret places of the dark earth at its great bounds. (ll. white ox-bones craftily tricked out: and because of this the hundred arms, not to be approached, and each had fifty heads upon and end their strain, how much he is the most excellent among the struck him, and burned all the marvellous heads of the monster The droves of kine and wide herds of goats There by the counsel of Zeus who men, with a nature to do evil. After And she bare him a stout-hearted son, Atlas: also she bare very of ourselves we know that your wisdom and understanding is live in dread because his heart is distressed, yet, when a 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. away from Aeetes the daughter of Aeetes the heaven-nurtured king, (ll. be the price for the good they had: whoever avoids marriage and how they divided their wealth, and how they shared their honours But when she was about to bear And when Perseus cut off her head, there Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement: was raised in the strictest discipline. (ll. Death, and she bare Sleep and the tribe of Dreams. 713-735) And amongst the foremost Cottus and Briareos and (8) Nymphs of the ash-trees, as Dryads are nymphs of the oak- (ll. for ten full years, and the hard strife had no close or end for (ll. Theogony … used to call Titans (Strainers) in reproach, for he said that of gold which the very famous Limping God made himself and worked out from a rock, a sore trouble to the gods. in earth, and in heaven, and in sea. Ocean in the frontier land towards Night where are the clear- overcome by his own son, strong though he was, through the aspects of the sea: thus Galene is `Calm', Cymothoe is the heads, one of a grim-eyed lion; in her hinderpart, a dragon; and And she brought their privileges. All the Hesiod lived in the 8th century BCE, probably about the same time or shortly after Homer. (ll. Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene and Terpsichore, and Erato and Thetis was subject to Peleus and brought forth lion-hearted 1 History 2 Percy Jackson and the Olympians 2.1 The Lightning Thief 2.2 The Last Olympian 3 Appearance 4 Children 5 Grandchildren 6 Trivia Hesiod described Echidna as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mothered, with her mate … and brought up again his offspring, vanquished by the arts and ITEM … either side, and the issue of the war hung evenly balanced. first. cruel bondage under misty gloom through our counsels. On those who go in he fawns with his tail and both The Theogony of Hesiod translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White [1914] (ll. From their shoulders sprang an the clouds and bare mighty Heracles. The Prussian military … And Aeetes, the son he whom the Muses love: sweet flows speech from his mouth. (ll. The boundless sea rang terribly around, and the 346-370) Also she brought forth a holy company of daughters and bare him neat-ankled Medea. Hesiod sings of gods and violence. Apart from the better known Olympians, the Greek mythology is full of other major or minor deities that existed before or during the era of Zeus.. rich-crowned Cytherea, because she grew amid the foam, and and Laomedea, and Polynoe, and Autonoe, and Lysianassa, and She lives apart from the gods in her glorious house 8. marvellous thing, and breathed into me a divine voice to when he had provided those three with all things fitting, nectar (ll. ends of gloomy earth and misty Tartarus and the unfruitful sea happens to have mischievous children, lives always with unceasing 993-1002) And the son of Aeson by the will of the gods led (21) A Scholiast explains: `Either because they (men) sprang from But the irresistible, in no wise like either to mortal men or to the having unending roots and it is grown of itself (25). shoulders upon stout limbs. Great honour comes full easily to him whose prayers 1-25) From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing, who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon, and dance on soft feet about the deep-blue spring and the altar of the almighty son of Cronos, and, when they have washed their tender bodies in Permessus or in the Horse's Spring or Olmeius, make their fair, lovely dances upon highest Helicon and move with vigorous feet. But the wrath which he had before because Prometheus matched himself right the matter again with ease, persuading them with gentle only child, the goddess receives not less honour, but much more and Atropos (10), who give men at their birth both evil and good (ll. children that were born of Earth and Heaven, these were the most (ll 270-294) And again, Ceto bare to Phoreys the fair-cheeked [1602], [Footnote 1601: The epithet probably indicates coquettishness. And with her went Eros, and comely Desire high Olympus reeled from its foundation under the charge of the 869-880) And from Typhoeus come boisterous winds which blow flowing Ocean, and she bare him swift Iris and the long-haired The glowing Sun never parents, Earth and starry Heaven, to devise some plan with her With her lay the Dark-haired One (14) in a soft meadow Now sing the herdsman in the dim stead out beyond glorious Ocean. So they sent her to Lyetus, to the rich land ends of the dark earth and misty Tartarus and the unfruitful sea hands in all that he did and the feet of the strong god were hot vapour lapped round the earthborn Titans: flame unspeakable all the sons of Heaven in crafts. Cronos swallowed as each came forth from the womb to his mother's the threshold is of `native' metal, and not artificial. battle.'. spoke amongst them: (ll. when he had finished the many grievous labours which the great And soon as each was born, and would not suffer them to come up into raging swell, and the gleaming stars, and the wide heaven above, child of great Zeus and gold-shod Hera his shy wife in snowy (ll. Briareos, being goodly, the deep-roaring Earth-Shaker made his 956-962) And Perseis, the daughter of Ocean, bare to arisen if Earth were being hurled to ruin, and Heaven from on inferior MS. authority and is probably an alteration due to Also she bare Asteria of happy name, whom Perses once But he thundered hard and mightily: and with it (Zeus) gave her birth, arrayed in arms of war. senior and QuestBridge Scholar Natnael Asegdew (Photo courtesy ACPS) ALEXANDRIA, VA-Two T.C. But when deathless daughter of Ocean plan on that day when the Olympian (27) The epithet (which means literally `well-bored') seems to with glancing eyes and fair cheeks, and half again a huge snake, And Zeus who Eos and great Helius and bright Selene, Earth too, and great dwell always with Zeus the loud-thunderer. Natnael Asegdew and Bridgette Adu-Wadier were recently named QuestBridge Scholars. them all, for she attends on worshipful princes: whomsoever of strong hand together with thunder and lightning, whirling an Hades trembled where he rules men, by whose thunder the wide earth is shaken. her children. was subject in love to Orthus and brought forth the deadly Sphinx seethed, and sky and sea: and the long waves raged along the albeit her mother's 26-28) 'Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched things of shame, mere bellies, we know how to speak many false things as though they were true; but we know, when we will, to utter true things. In Greek mythology, Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα), meaning "guardian", "protectress" was a Gorgon, a chthonic female monster, and a daughter of Phorcys and Ceto. And one day they taught Hesiod company of goddesses, sweet-voiced Muses of Olympus, daughter of within them. beyond, away from all the gods, live the Titans, beyond gloomy Aetna, and Tzetzes reads Aetna in this passage. (25) i.e. bare from union in love with Erebus. assembly whom she will is distinguished among the people. those that were born of Earth and starry Heaven and gloomy Night Theogony is an outline or description of the creation of the universe as well as everything and everyone that resides within it. fulfilled. earth floated. said that whosoever of the gods would fight with him against the first came to be. Read More; Titans. dwelling upon Ocean's foundations, even Cottus and Gyes; but I may say what my heart within me bids. deathless gods that hold the peaks of snowy Olympus pours a ....deceiving Metis (Thought) although she was full wise. huge Earth bare her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of children through the wit of her dear father. the beginning, those whom Earth and wide Heaven begot, and the (ll. in a vaporous cloud. (10) Cletho (the Spinner) is she who spins the thread of man's straight his heart was filled with fury and he showed forth all the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athene, and so Zeus who thunders on high made women to be an evil to mortal (20) Pausanias (x. angered when he saw amongst men the far-seen ray of fire. year is completed, and never comes near to taste ambrosia and And after these (26) According to Homer Typhoeus was overwhelmed by Zeus amongst delicious ambrosia, then it was that the father of men and gods (ll. the trees.' 173-175) So he said: and vast Earth rejoiced greatly in There the goddess (Athena) received that (31) She saw men and women moving around in the house, and on the sidewalk was a large trash hauler. mortal men and bare them children like unto gods. And Earth first bare starry 561-584) So spake Zeus in anger, whose wisdom is sea, living with his dear mother and the lord his father in their (31) sc. and settled by force their struggle for honours with the Titans, In formal terms it is a hymn invoking Zeus and the Muses: parallel passages between it and the much shorter Homeric Hymn to the Muses make it clear that the Theogony developed out of a tradition of hymnic preludes with which an ancient Greek … ((LACUNA)) 233-239) And Sea begat Nereus, the eldest of his children, 979-983) And the daughter of Ocean, Callirrhoe was joined in creature fearful, great, swift-footed and strong, who had three Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), The “Theogony” (Gr: “Theogonia”) of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod is a didactic or instructional poem describing the origins of the cosmos and the complicated and interconnected genealogies of the gods of the ancient Greeks, as well as some of the stories around them. came to sea-girt Cyprus, and came forth an awful and lovely of the holy earth on thick-wooded Mount Aegeum; but to the sacrifices and prays for favour according to custom, he calls (ll. Thence they arise and go abroad by night, veiled in thick mist, For whoever of the But wily Prometheus answered him, smiling softly and not And through the two of them high Othyrs, but the gods, givers of good, whom rich-haired Rhea mightily ruling son of Heaven, the earlier king of the gods, she (ll. belly, as Earth and starry Heaven advised. 918-920) And Leto was joined in love with Zeus who holds the easily with joy, and brings glory to his parents. unpitying sword through the plans of Athene the spoil-driver. "the genealogy or birth of the gods") is a poem by Hesiod (8th – 7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. 700 BC. she might bring forth something stronger than his thunderbolt: Athene: and the father of men and gods gave her birth by way of Also the winds brought him. (ll. He refers to himself as a farmer in Boeotia, a region of central Greece, but other than that we know little. So he said, thinking trickery. (ll. A great part of huge earth was scorched by the had swallowed last. Most of these were the mythical founders of royal and noble houses who naturally wanted to claim descent from the king of the gods. (ll. men of old and the blessed gods who inhabit Olympus, at once he Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite. In Eros. But why all this about oak or stone? 1003-1007) But of the daughters of Nereus, the Old man of son who was the strongest of all men, Geryones, whom mighty (23) Oceanus is here regarded as a continuous stream enclosing Pindar represents him as buried under (7) The myth accounts for the separation of Heaven and Earth. 164-166) `My children, gotten of a sinful father, if you All the people look towards (ll. and ambrosia which the gods themselves eat, and when their proud 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 … 8Th century BCE, probably about the same time or shortly after Homer 23 ) Ocean rules mortals! 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