Crossword-Solution: THEOGONY
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| Theogony | n. | 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. |
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| HESIOD, work of | 1 answer |
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Sentences with THEOGONY (5)
While, therefore, an epic like the _Odyssey_ is an organism and dramatic in structure, a work such as the _Theogony_ is a merely artificial collocation of facts, and, at best, a pageant.
The Genealogical Poems The only complete poem of the genealogical group is the _Theogony_, which traces from the beginning of things the descent and vicissitudes of the families of the gods.
The _Theogony_ might be tentatively placed a century later; and the _Catalogues_ and _Eoiae_ are again later, but not greatly later, than the _Theogony_: the _Shield of Heracles_ may be ascribed to the later half of the seventh century, but there is not evidence enough to show whether the other “developed” poems are to be regarded as of a date so low as this.
The _Titanomachy_, ascribed both to Eumelus of Corinth and to Arctinus of Miletus, began with a kind of Theogony which told of the union of Heaven and Earth and of their offspring the Cyclopes and the Hundred-handed Giants.
Then they called out "We have found him, let us rejoice." For a discussion on the Egyptian conception of Osiris, and Iris place in the theogony of that nation, see Hegel's "Lectures on the Philosophy of History": Chapter on Egypt.
Quotes with THEOGONY (1)
'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.