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Theogony

Theogonia

textual humanities text poem major Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Hesiod, author

Canon Rationale

A central archaic Greek poem for divine genealogy, cosmogony, mythic order, succession myth, and later classical literary and religious imagination.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 17.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Theogony'.
  • anthology: Internet Classics Archive, 'Theogony by Hesiod', translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency

Completion unit: read a complete translation of Hesiod’s Theogony, or record the exact selected passage unit if a later path uses selected reading.

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