HESIOD: "THEOGONY" (THE GENEALOGY OF THE GODS).
Introduction:
Hesiod was an Ancient Greek poet who was thought to have lived between 750 and 650 B.C. and therefore to have been a contemporary of Homer, the author of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey." The main works of Hesiod's to have survived are the "Theogony" (The Origin of the Gods) and "Works and Days," both written in dactylic hexameters. The "Theogony," the poem translated below, tells of the origins of the gods, their lineages, and the events that led to Zeus becoming the king of the gods.
