CLASS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Homeric Hymns, Boeotia, Theogony
17 Oct 2018
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He is credited with two poems: theogony ("origin of the gods"), a poem that details the creation of the universe and the origin of the current set of greco-roman gods that we know order from chaos. In hesiod"s poems,chaos was the first thing to exist, and (possibly out of chaos) came gaia, tartarus, and eros (in. Hesiod"s myths he is a primordial deity [og born from the void of chaos], while in other myths he is the son of. Aphrodite): unambiguously born "from chaos" were erebus (darkness) and nyx (night), works and days, a sort of meditation on agriculture and human effort.
