įurther, in the "Kings and Singers" passage (80–103) Hesiod appropriates to himself the authority usually reserved to sacred kingship. Theogonies are a part of Greek mythology which embodies the desire to articulate reality as a whole this universalizing impulse was fundamental for the first later projects of speculative theorizing. The initial state of the universe is chaos, a dark indefinite void considered a divine primordial condition from which everything else appeared. It is the first known Greek mythical cosmogony. Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells how they came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos. It is written in the Epic dialect of Ancient Greek and contains 1022 lines. "the genealogy or birth of the gods" ) is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. The Theogony ( Greek: Θεογονία, Theogonía, Attic Greek:, i.e. Fourteenth-century Greek manuscript of Hesiod's Theogony with scholia written in the margins
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