Reflection On Hesiod's Theogony

Children’s Book Reflection Origo Deorum is a retelling Hesiod’s Theogony, a large-scale synthesis of Greek religious traditions and fables concerning the gods and the universe. The children’s book recounts the birth of the gods and the gradual emergence of Zeus’ dominance and his formation of cosmic order. The story is told in three stages, the castration of Oursanos by Cronos, the deception of Cronos by Gaia and Zeus, and the victory of the new gods over the Titans.
The myth does not follow the pattern of a Judeo-Christian creation myth or Ovid’s Metamorphoses, where an omnipresent god or power is responsible for all of creation, but rather follows the procreative pattern of the human family. Theogony focuses on the genealogies and the story of succession culminating in Zeus and the Olympians’ victory over their parents and the final ordering of the universe. …show more content…
In the Theogony, Hesiod wrote that Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros increased the order of the universe through procreation, both sexual and asexual, whereas Ovid eludes that a single omnipresent deity or force created the universe by organizing the primal chaos. We decided that the relationships between Hesiod’s primordial deities and the conflict that occurs with in these expanding families would be much more engaging for children and result in a more fully formed plot with exposition, raising action, climax, and