Theogonien hesiod biography

Theogony hesiod pdf

A prime example of such “biography” is the episode in the Hesiodic Theogony (22–34) where the figure of Hesiod declares that the Muses, as goddesses of poetry, initiated him into their craft.

theogonien hesiod biography

Theogony summary

The Theogony traces the movement from female Earth to Olympian Zeus, telling a story of familial violence, including Cronos’s castration of Uranus and Zeus’s overthrow of Cronos before Zeus.


When was hesiod's theogony written

The Theogony (Theogonia, or Genealogy of the Gods) is a long (over 1, lines) narrative description of the origin of the universe and the gods.


Theogony story
Most scholars agree upon the author of the composition as Hesiod.