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          Theogony

          Poem by Hesiod

          The Theogony (Ancient Greek: Θεογονία, Theogonía,[2] i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods"[3]) is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. 730–700 BC.[4] It is written in the Epic dialect of Ancient Greek and contains 1022 lines.

          It is one of the most important sources for the understanding of early Greek cosmology.

          Descriptions

          Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells how they came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos.

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          5. It is the first known Greekmythicalcosmogony. The initial state of the universe is chaos, a dark indefinite void considered a divine primordial condition from which everything else appeared. Theogonies are a part of Greek mythology which embodies the desire to articulate reality as a whole;