Definition of Theogony. Meaning of Theogony. Synonyms of Theogony

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Definition of Theogony

Theogony
Theogony The*og"o*ny, n. [L. theogonia, Gr. ?; ? a god + the root of ? to be born. See Theism, and Genus.] The generation or genealogy of the gods; that branch of heathen theology which deals with the origin and descent of the deities; also, a poem treating of such genealogies; as, the Theogony of Hesiod.

Meaning of Theogony from wikipedia

- The Theogony (Ancient Gr****: Θεογονία, Theogonía, i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods") is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins...
- "Night") is the goddess and personification of the night. In Hesiod's Theogony, she is the offspring of Chaos, and the mother of Aether and Hemera (Day)...
- Several of Hesiod's works have survived in their entirety. Among these are Theogony, which tells the origins of the gods, their lineages, and the events that...
- singular: Τιτάν, Titán) were the pre-Olympian gods. According to the Theogony of Hesiod, they were the twelve children of the primordial parents Ur****...
- instead personifications of places or abstract concepts. Hesiod, in his Theogony, considers the first beings (after Chaos) to be Erebus, Gaia, Tartarus...
- Chronos (Time), and the brother of Chaos and Erebus. According to Hesiod's Theogony, which contained the "standard" Gr**** genealogy of the gods, Aether was...
- re-interpretation or re-reading of the myth of Dionysus and a re-ordering of Hesiod's Theogony, based in part on pre-Socratic philosophy. The suffering and death of the...
- by whom the Iliad states that he fathered Aphrodite. According to the Theogony, Zeus's first wife was Metis, by whom he had Athena. Zeus was also infamous...
- Fabulae Theogony 1–2 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95). Hard, p. 24; Gantz, p. 10; Hesiod Theogony 126–128. Hesiod, Theogony 132–153. Hesiod, Theogony 154–155...
- was probably formed from the Gr**** βριαρός meaning "strong". Hesiod's Theogony also calls him "Obriareus". The name Gyges is possibly related to the mythical...