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| | Theogony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Theogony is a poem by Hesiod describing the origins of the gods of ancient Greek religion. | | | Rather, the Theogony affirms the kingship of the god Zeus himself over all the other gods and over the whole cosmos. | | | It is necessary to see the Theogony not as the definitive source of Greek mythology, but rather as a snapshot of a dynamic tradition that happened to crystallize when Hesiod set the myths he knew down to writing - and to remember that the traditions have continued evolving since that time. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theogony
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| | Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Background Notes |
| | The Theogony is an especially important background document for the Homeric Hymns, since the hymns as a whole fill out and specify the honors accorded to each of the Olympian divinities. | | | And several (again including the Hymn to Demeter) fill in an important aspect of the cosmogony that was left undeveloped in the Theogony: the relationship between gods and mortals. | | | An important section of the Theogony is the Hymn to Hecate (lines 411-55). |
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http://mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu/cciv110x/hhdemeter/cciv110.back.demeter.html
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| | Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica E-book by Hesiod |
| | The Genealogical Poems: The only complete poem of the genealogical group is the "Theogony", which traces from the beginning of things the descent and vicissitudes of the families of the gods. | | | "Theogony" 963 ff.) with some such passage as this: `But now, ye Muses, sing of the tribes of women with whom the Sons of Heaven were joined in love, women pre-eminent above their fellows in beauty, such as was Niobe (?).' Each succeeding heroine was then introduced by the formula `Or such as was...' (cp. | | | The "Titanomachy", ascribed both to Eumelus of Corinth and to Arctinus of Miletus, began with a kind of Theogony which told of the union of Heaven and Earth and of their offspring the Cyclopes and the Hundred-handed Giants. |
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http://www.19.5degs.com/ebook/hesiod-homeric-hymns-and-homerica/659/read
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| | Myths of Creation, Greek Mythology Link. |
| | Likewise Theogony, which describes the Origin of the Gods, does not limit itself to give an account of their coming to being, but it also establishes their number and describes their nature, declaring, among many other things, whether they are good or evil, or whether they are stronger or weaker. | | | For the gods create new segments of Cosmos by consorting with each other, and these new segments, being gods, are both created and procreated. | | | Since Cosmos is not a lifeless stage where actors perform their deeds, but instead the stage and the actors at the same time; and since these actors are divinities, it may be asserted that the myths make no difference between Cosmogony and Theogony, or between the Cosmos and the gods. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/MythsCreation.html
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| | Reading Hesiod's Theogony (with Notes and Questions) |
| | If the Theogony is about anything, it is about birth, the "birth of the gods" which is what the title means. | | | Note that Zeus' mating and engendering is extended to the other gods and goddesses in the final section (87-90) of the poem. | | | Thus, as Karl Kerényi points out, the order of the universe "was established by the unions and separations, the divine marriages and births, constituting a mythical history of the primordial beginnings which, taken as a whole, we call a 'theogony'" (33). |
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http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Hesiod.htm
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| | Theogony |
| | A genealogy of gods or divine beings, or a treatise on this, such as that of Hesiod; more generally, the philosophical science which traces the coming into being of any hierarchical universe by means of the succeeding hosts of divinities which, by manifesting themselves on various planes, produce the composite universe. | | | Ulom (Phoenician) The intelligible deity, the intellectual reflection of the ever-concealed divine; and in the theogony of Mochus also the intellectual universe expressing itself in the objective or material universe. | | | Theogony: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Hesiodic Cosmogony |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/theogony
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| | Hesiod’s Theogony and its Near Eastern Forerunners: |
| | The hymn to Styx is one of the central pieces in Hesiod's Theogony (vv. | | | Zeus's Promise: The Hymn to Styx in Hesiod's Theogony | | | Thus, promise-giving and institutionalizing the great oath of the gods bring an end to the succession of divine rulers and can be regarded as an important feature of the social contract of the Olympian community. |
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http://www.apaclassics.org/AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/weigelt.htm
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| | Verbal Patterns in Hesiod's Theogony |
| | Not only is the Theogony a chronicle of the birth of the gods but it is also the story of how they acquired their positions in the divine hierarchy. | | | Of the first category of repetitions, the most important for the Theogony is that of words for birth and origin. | | | [Note that I put the name "Pandora" in quotes, because in the version of the story told in the Theogony, she does not have a name, nor does she open the jar, but she is simply the First Woman, who brings misfortune to men.] |
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http://www.minervaclassics.com/verbal.htm
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| | Study Questions - Jan |
| | Compare and contrast the nature of the divine force(s) portrayed in the beginning of Genesis to the nature of the divine force(s) portrayed in the beginning of Hesiod's Theogony. | | | How do the different kinds of generation in Theogony and Genesis relate to the different structures of power implicit in their images of the generated world? | | | How do male gods succeed one another in power: what means do they use, and who assists them in what ways? |
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http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/faculty/Long/SQJan.html
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| | Hesiod: Theogony |
| | "Theogony" means "birth of the gods." This thousand-line poem comes from the end of the 8th century bce. | | | Most generally it is a hymn to Zeus, king of gods and men, but it encompasses the origin of the world (cosmogony) and of the other gods. | | | For much more detail concerning the generations of the Greek gods, click |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/theogony.html
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| | www.myspace.com/theogony |
| | Mostgenerally it is a hymn to Zeus, king of the gods and men, but it encompasses the origin of the world (cosmogony) and of the other gods. | | | "Theogony" means "birth of the gods" (theo-gods, gony-birth). | | | Theogony was formed in 2004 at Nesher city near Haifa. |
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http://www.myspace.com/theogony
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| | Theogony Study Questions |
| | What is a theogony, and what is a cosmogony, and what example of the latter do we find in Hesiod's Theogony? | | | How might a religious festival have been important for the creation of the Theogony itself? | | | What do Mesopotamian 'king lists' have to do with Hesiod's Theogony? |
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http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/dlevine/THEOGONY.html
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| | Creation |
| | Those who say that she was an Olympian, say that Hades was not, because Hades had never lived in Olympus. | | | In Libya, the western part of North Africa, Atlas had carried the weight of the sky upon his shoulders, for countless centuries. | | | Rhea hid the infant Zeus in a cave. |
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http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/creation.html
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| | Theogony |
| | Theogony refers to the origin of God and has been a subject of religious inquiry throughout the ages. | | | Ancient peoples, notably Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, developed elaborate genealogies for their various gods, rationalizing and mythologizing the birth and characteristics of each. |
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http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/basic/godhead/theogony.htm
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| | Mythography Review of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield |
| | Indeed, it is worth noting that Hesiod's Theogony is one of our most important sources for information about the births of the Greek gods and goddesses. | | | Do you have a specific question about mythology? | | | And in addition to the full text of the three separate poems, there are also several other features that make this book an essential reference in any library. |
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http://www.loggia.com/books/classics03.html
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| | Olympians: Vase Representations |
| | in order of their birth in the Theogony | | | Drawing of Roman statue and Hades abducting Persephone(Engraving from 1732) on the Greek Mythology Link |
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http://mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu/cciv110x/hesiod/cciv110.olympians.html
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| | Hesiod, Theogony |
| | Theogony: greatest single archaic Greek compendium of myths about the gods | | | Plato's call for revision of Poetry and Gods |
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http://www.geneseo.edu/~harrison/humn1_html/theogony.html
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| | Quizzes - Quiz#4 |
| | What is the portrayal of women in both the Theogony and Genesis? | | | How does the portrayal of Zeus as a powerful deity in Theogony differ from that of God in Genesis? | | | Identify at least two common themes present in the Theogony, Genesis, and the Enuma Elish. |
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http://dmc.utep.edu/westch/quiz/quiz4.html
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| | The vocabulary of ontology: Truth (From Aletheia to Veritas) |
| | Nagy Gregory, "Authorisation and authorship in the Hesiodic Theogony," Ramus 21: 119-130 (1992). | | | Hermes 560-63 for the contrast aletheia / pseudos. | | | It should be noted that etetuma and alethea are metrically equivalent, so their differing uses can not be explained by metrical exigencies. |
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http://www.formalontology.it/truth.htm
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| | Theogony, Greek Mythology Link. |
| | The Theogony describes them first (218) as daughters of Nyx, and later (903) as daughters of Zeus. | | | Origin of the gods (light version of the table "Hesiod's Theogony") | | | Hesiod does not mention her by name in the Theogony. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Theogony.html
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| | Amazon.com: Theogony, Works and Days: Books: Hesiod,M. L. West |
| | "Theogony" is one of, if not "the", original sources of Greek mythology. | | | "Theogony," for those not familiar with the work even by reputation, is the story of the origins and struggles of the gods of Classical Greece. | | | Because it is so bad, she argues, it could not have been written by the Hesiod who wrote the "Works and Days", because no poet who wrote good in one place could write so bad in another. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192839411?v=glance
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| | Goddesses, Patriarchy, and their Reconciliation in Hesiod |
| | Goddess Religion, Patriarchy, and their Reconciliation in Hesiod's Theogony | | | Mother Earth is the sole power which generates Sky; she is the cunning one who overcomes the oppression of Sky through trickery - and new technology, as she invents steel and makes the sickle. | | | At the close of the Theogony, the Fates are represented as the offspring of Zeus and Themis (also a chthonian goddess). |
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http://www.drury.edu/ess/eastern/ChthonicHomeric.html
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| | Mythography The Titan Hyperion in Myth and Art |
| | Furthermore, Hesiod has left us a remarkable record of the legendary birth of many of the Greek gods and goddesses in his Theogony. | | | These powerful gods were called Gaia and Ouranos, and they represented the Earth (Gaia) and the Sky (Ouranos). | | | Together, Gaia and Ouranos had many children, and the poet Hesiod seems to delight in listing the names of their sons and daughters in his Theogony. |
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http://www.loggia.com/myth/hyperion.html
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| | The Greatest Literature of All Time - Theogony |
| | And thrown from land into the stormy sea, | | | "Theogony" means origins of the gods and Theogony is mainly about how the Olympian gods came about. | | | I suppose it was of great importance to the ancient world for other reasons as well, but this does not translate into a particularly rich experience for the modern reader— unless he or she is an historian or a classicist interested in the Greek worldview. |
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http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/books/Theogony.html
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| | Splendid Sun » Theogony |
| | So the question of the day is: How do you believe God became God? | | | the•og•o•ny (n): An account of the origin and genealogy of the gods. | | | This allows me to justify the worship of none other than the Godhead, while conc […] |
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http://www.splendidsun.com/wp/index.php/2005/01/17/20
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| | Anaximander [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | In order to understand their meaning, we have to look at Hesiod's Theogony 722-725, where it is said that a brazen anvil would take nine days to fall from heaven to earth before it arrives on the tenth day. | | | It is not a bold guess to suppose that Anaximander knew this text. | | | See Figure 1, a plane view of Anaximander's universe. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/anaximan.htm
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| | titan and titanomachy and wisconsin knife and hesiod and theogony |
| | Before I read some of the text this time, my mind was transported back to 1971, when I first read a portion of Hesiod in Greek. | | | Henry VIII's fight with the Vatican in the 16th century was likewise a titanomachy. | | | So, I picked up the Theogony again, and was delighted with its rhythmic flow and artistry. |
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http://www.willamette.edu/~blong/EvenMoreWords/Titan.html
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| | HUMA 1600 (Brown): Hesiod, Theogony |
| | This link is to a page giving a genealogical chart relating many of the gods mentioned in the Theogony, with links to images and more detailed information about over 70 of them. | | | In fact there is a great deal of other useful material on his site, including this insightful discussion of ways of interpreting myth. | | | The etching is part of the collection of the University of Michigan Museum; some information about it can be found here. |
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http://www.trinity.edu/cbrown/huma/hesiod.html
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| | Quiz yourself on the Theogony! Whoohoo! |
| | The Theogony begins with a section devoted to | | | Gaia bears three children without "mating in sweet love" but who is her first sexual partner? | | | Get all 15 and you can probably have that bum Trzaskoma's job |
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http://pubpages.unh.edu/~smt3/theogonyquiz1.html
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| | Issues in the <i>Theogony</i> |
| | What does it mean for something to be before or after? | | | Plato, in the Timaeus, a much later and more philosophical work concerned with the creation of the universe, says that Ouranus and Gaia begat Okeanos and Tethys, who begat Kronos and Rheia and the others, who then begat the olympians. | | | In the first stage of the Theogony, there seems to be no time, and the beings are not born, they simply "come next." |
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http://www.uvm.edu/~jbailly/courses/clas21/notes/theogonyissues.html
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| | THE ORPHIC THEOGONY - Orphic Pantheon by G. R. S. Meade |
| | In Hymn XXXIV, Apollo is said to 'fix his roots beyond the | | | 'By Zeus he means the discus, on account of the stone swallowed by Cronus instead of Zeus, as Hesiod says in his Theogony, which he stole without acknowledgment and disfigured from the Theogony of Orpheus' (Schol. | | | But with regard to Phanes, in the Orphic Theogony, these forces are noëtic, and not sensible. |
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http://www.piney.com/Orphic.html
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| | Ancient Greece Mythology |
| | According to the Theogony of Hesiod, Chaos generated the solid mass of Earth, from which arose the starry, cloud-filled Heaven. |
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http://www.ancientgreece.com/mythology/mythology.htm
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| | Murrey: Tio/mai in Hesiod's Theogony: Zeus' Revenge on Mortals |
| | Tio/mai in Hesiod's Theogony: Zeus' Revenge on Mortals | | | Murrey: Tio/mai in Hesiod's Theogony: Zeus' Revenge on Mortals | | | This idea of divine revenge, whether on divine beings, or on mortals, is carried right up through to the last few passages of the epic poem. |
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http://www.camws.org/meeting/2005/abstracts2005/murrey.html
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| | Llewellyn Encyclopedia: Celtic Religion |
| | Lugus, like Odin, was king of the gods in the Celtic pantheon, was accompanied by crows and ravens, carried a spear, and closed one eye to do his magic (Odin offered his eye); like the Great Zeus in Hesiod’s Theogony, he led the Tuatha Dé Danann gods in victory over the Fomorian giants. |
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http://www.llewellynencyclopedia.com/article/187
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| | Hesiod, Theogony ToC: The Online Library of Liberty |
| | His poem Theogony deals with stories of the gods. | | | The early Greek poet Hesiod is credited with the invention of didactic poetry around 700 B.C. His surviving works are the Theogony, relating to the stories of the gods, and the Works and Days, relating to peasant life. | | | It may not be used in any way for profit. |
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| | Read. HO 1 Theogony |
| | The Theogony tells the story of the creation of the divine universe as the Greeks understood it. | | | How are natural forces sacralized in the Theogony and what does this tell us about the sacralization of these natural forces in Greek culture? | | | Do you sense an overriding conception of right and justice in the Theogony? |
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http://www.colorado.edu/Classics/clas2610/Text/RG1Theog.htm
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| | Theogony & Works and Days - Hesiod - M.L. West |
| | Theogony presents a genealogy of the Gods and a collection of myths, while Works and Days is a collection of moral advice for living an honest life. | | | Theogony & Works and Days - Hesiod - M.L. West |
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| | HESIOD'S THEOGONY AND COSMOGONY |
| | Great Father Sky called his children the Titans, because of his feud with them: he said that they blindly had tightened the noose and had done a savage thing for which they would have to pay in time to come. | | | Brown in the introduction to his translation, 'Hesiod's Theogony,' PP. | | | It is impossible to determine Hesiod's date, but he is later than Homer, probably eighth century B.C. The similarities to and differences from the Ancient Near East cosmogonies are discussed by Norman 0. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - theogony |
| | The human face is indeed, like the face of the God of some Oriental theogony, a whole cluster of faces, crowded together but on different surfaces... | | | what the book is about, author, Greek myths as described in Theogony, quotations | | | In Hesiod's poem Theogony, the children of Night included... |
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http://encarta.msn.com/theogony.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Theogony: Search Results All Products |
| | The Theogony of the Created Gods by Helene Petrovna Blavatsky (Author) (Paperback - December 2005) | | | Works and Days and Theogony by Hesiod (Author), et al (Paperback - October 1993) | | | Penguin Classics Theogony And Works And Days And Elegies by Hesiod (Author), Dorothea Wender (Author) (Paperback - August 2, 2004) |
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| | Thales of Miletus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | This coming-into-being of land would have provided substantiation of Thales's doctrine. | | | The ruins of the once prosperous city-port of Miletus are now ten kilometres distant from the coast and the Island of Lade now forms part of a rich agricultural plain. | | | There would have been opportunity to observe other areas where earth generated from water, for example, the deltas of the Halys, the Ister, about which Hesiod wrote (Theogony, 341), now called the Danube, the Tigris-Euphrates, and almost certainly the Nile. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/t/thales.htm
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| | Great Books and Classics - Hesiod |
| | edition, includes 13 works by Hesiod including Theogony, The Works and Days and Shield of Heracles, plus the Homeric Hymns, the Epic Cycle and Homerica; translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (Harvard Univ Pr, 1914, 712 pg). | | | edition of The Works and Days and Theogony; translated by M.L. West (Oxford Univ Pr, 1999, 118 pg). |
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