Theogony

Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet, thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC. Hesiod's `Theogony' is a poem describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods. It was sourced from various local traditions about the gods, synthesized and organized as a narrative that reveals their origin and the history of their rule over the cosmos. Hesiod declares - in the "Kings and Singers" passage - that it is upon him, the poet, that the Muses have bestowed the visible signs o...