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    opinions as to what justice is through their epic poems and other works. Even though some of their views on justice conflict and others compliment each other, they both laid a foundation to explain what justice meant in Greek society. In Hesiod’s poem Theogony, he attempts to use the creation story to introduce the necessity of justice. To Hesiod, the world started…

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    being inferior to men. The inequality of genders can be traced all the way back to Greek mythology. Both Hesiod’s Theogony and Homer’s Odyssey demonstrate the Greek’s early thoughts on this issue. Homer and Hesiod would agree that women are deplorable creatures and marriage usually leads to suffering. Hesiod spares no detail of his despise while describing the creation of women in Theogony. He claims that the sole reason for the female was to punish men. They are described more like an object…

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    Uranus the primal Greek god personifying the sky. His equivalent in Roman mythology was Caelus. In Ancient Greek literature, Uranus or Father Sky was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. According to Hesiod's Theogony, Uranus was conceived by Gaia alone, but other sources cite Aether as his father. Uranus and Gaia were the parents of the first generation of Titans, and the ancestors of most of the Greek gods, but no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into Classical times, and…

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    Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, desire and procreation. She was conceived in an unconventional matter. According to Hesiod 's Theogony, Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and his flesh was cast into the sea creating a white foam. It is believed that Aphrodite was born a full grown woman from the foam. Aphrodite was so beautiful and desired by all men forcing Zeus to marry her off to Hephaestus to appease the jealous gods and goddesses. Hephaestus walked in on Aphrodite and Ares…

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    The Theogony as Role of Citizenship by Kyle Herman The Theogony should be required reading in the Ohio State freshmen curriculum over The Odyssey because the Theogony better demonstrates the role of citizenship through the importance of cooperation and the freedom to choose. The Theogony should be required reading in the freshmen curriculum over The Odyssey because it emphasizes the importance of cooperation. In the Theogony, Typhon plans to rule over the Gods and humans. Zeus notices Typhon’s…

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    ancient Greece. They are to be respected, worshipped and feared in order to live a peaceful and long life. Hesiod represents these gods in similar but contrasting ways through the tale of Prometheus and Pandora in his poems, Works and Days and The Theogony. Though both poems are different and take on a different form they are both considered wisdom literature because we learn a lesson of right and wrong from the tales being told. In these poems we examine the gods through the eyes of the man…

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    It is then changed and altered by an act, birth, voice, event, etc. The Theogony myth by Hesiod expresses this aspect for the Greeks along with Ancient Hebrew story of the 1st Creation in Genesis. These two stories demonstrate two different approaches using the same concepts as each other. Both are formed with a primordial that…

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    only he among the proud Ouranians / Should hold the title of King among the Immortals” (Hes. Theogony. ll. 463 – 466). Cronos did this because he learned that if he was able to over throw his father, by the will of his mother, then his own child could do the same to him. He knew “That is was fated for him, powerful though he was, / To be overthrown by his child, through the scheming of Zeus” (Hes. Theogony. ll. 468 – 469). Before their last child Zeus was born, Rhea managed to save him by…

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    Hesiod And Roman Mythology

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    of how the creator, whether it is the gods themselves or nature, gave our world its shape and form. These stories draw the background to the base of the gods and goddesses who govern much of classical mythology. Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Hesiod’s Theogony are two pieces of work that account r how our universe came to be. There are clear distinctions and similarities between how these authors portrayed their deities and their role in the universe. Hesiod’s creation story consisted of deities…

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    Cosmogony In Human Culture

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    For instance in the Orphic Theogony, Zeus represents a higher god, or central power. Even though the myths include various gods there seems to be a sense that there is always a central power. As if “out of the One all things” are affected (pdf). This idea of oneness implies a different…

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