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Theogony

by Hesiod, Esido

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This translation contains an introduction, commentary and interpretive essay and well as numerous notes and annotations to provide the history and background of the epic, and the mythological context in which it is placed. Hesiod's straightforward account of family conflict among the gods is the best and earliest evidence of what the ancient Greeks believed about the beginning of the world. Includes Hesiod's "Works and Days", lines 1-201, and material from the Library of Apollodorus.

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mythologymythologyMore like thisLess of thismyths and folkloremyths and folkloreMore like thisLess of thisancient worldancient worldMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of this
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religionreligionMore like thisLess of thistheatretheatreMore like thisLess of this
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ancient historyancient historyMore like thisLess of thisantiquityantiquityMore like thisLess of thisancient Greeceancient GreeceMore like thisLess of thisFranceFranceMore like thisLess of thisGreeceGreeceMore like thisLess of this
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historyhistoryMore like thisLess of thisphilosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thisanthropologyanthropologyMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 129 pages
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