Theogony

Hesiod's account of the origins of the gods and the cosmos, the oldest systematic Greek genealogy of divinity.

Core Characteristics

• Traces the succession of sky gods from Chaos through Uranus, Cronus, to Zeus's final victory.
• Opens with an invocation to the Muses, who taught the shepherd Hesiod to sing.
• Its succession myth of sons overthrowing fathers shaped how the Greeks ordered their pantheon.

Related Concepts & Sources

Theogony, Greek, Apollodorus' Library