Theogony

Hesiod's Theogony follows the birth of the gods and the cosmos through a family tree of divine generations, starting from the earliest primordial powers. Composed in verse, it is among the oldest surviving written records of how the ancient Greeks imagined the world coming into being.

The poem's core is a tale of rivalry inside the divine household, where parents, children and siblings struggle for control. Hesiod tells it in a plain, direct voice, focusing on the gods who would come to hold dominion over the universe.

This edition also includes lines 1 to 201 of Hesiod's Works and Days, a poem about farming and everyday moral life, along with material from the Library of Apollodorus, a later collection of Greek myths.