... within the contexts of Ge Hong's cosmogony and Plato's theogony. On the acceptance of difference, one can recognize the shared quest to name the origin of the world. pluralism atomism chaos cosmogony space theogony alchemy Laozi One Zhuangzi crucible Empedocles enlightenment Aristotle...

... W Lämmli F Morgan K A Nestle W Pépin J Reale G Settis S Veyne P Metaph Herodotus θαῦμα τέρας Cosmogony God and the divine Historiography Teratology Theogony Wonder Akousilaos Aristotle Buffière F Giannini A Hartog F Hecataeus of Miletus Hellanikos of Lesbos Hesiod Lachenaud...

...God Being Nothing: Toward a Theogony challenges and contests traditional understandings of God in favor of a God in process: a God determinately unfinished. The author deconstructs and radically re-envisions what monotheistic and trinitarian mean...

...This chapter offers a reading of intergenerational conflict in the long Homeric Hymn to Apollo and the twenty‐eighth Hymn to Athena. Detailed attention is given to the relationship of the poem's narratives to the Hesiodic theogony, among other texts. It is argued...

... reception for the first time. When considering the long trajectory of reception studies, the chapter examines the shifting weight of attention from the Works and Days to the Theogony and compares ancient allegory to its very different modern counterpart in theorists like...

...Temporality is an important aspect of the poetics of both the Theogony and the Works and Days. Hesiod’s temporality can be subdivided into different kinds of synchronic and diachronic temporalities: omnipresent, etiological, and teleological temporalities...

...The Introduction considers Hesiod’s Theogony in light of two modern creation stories. In the first instance, it compares it to the Big Bang theory; in the second to Freud’s “scientific myth” Civilization and Its Discontents. Big Bang theory Chaos Aphrodite Eros...

...This chapter argues that Hesiod shapes the history of his own reception by way of an elaborate biographical narrative, leading his readers from a conception of knowledge as Muse-inspired poetry in the Theogony, to one that centres on the human world and which must be acquired...

...The third chapter is about a theogony that had been known to the philosopher Eudemus (fourth century bc), and all of the other fragments that modern scholars have associated with this theogony. The Neoplatonist Damascius (fifth century ad) says that the theogony started with Night...

... on the only two substantial sources for the Hieronyman theogony, the Christian apologist Athenagoras and the Neoplatonist philosopher Damascius. As shown in the first section, studying their approaches to the Hieronyman theogony is useful for introducing the problems that are encountered in chapters 5 and 6...

... historiola Kothar Wa Hasis rivers Anunnaki dragon slaying myths number Pausanias Yazılıkaya Ditanu Rapa’uma Rephaim Prometheus Tarsus Hesiod Kumarbi Ugarit theogony Titans Syria The most significant parallel between Greek religion and the texts in the Hittite archives concerns a myth...

... for the new discipline of philosophy, a prose art-form. Rhetoric, on the other hand, a self-styled techne, dispensed with the Muses, despite the early association of these goddesses with eloquence in Hesiod's Theogony. The process of differentiating between Muses...

...’ names in the proem of the Theogony. The catalogue of the Muses’ names at vv. 77–9 is prepared by the preceding narrative that repeats words and word-parts cognate with these names. This implicit etymological network has a bearing on questions of poetic authority, especially since...

... Fyodor utilitarianism capax Dei Holocaust imperialism original sin problem of evil Providence Saint Augustine theodicy World War I agonistic misotheism absolute misotheism political misotheism metaphysical rebellion Gnosticism Atheism Agnosticism anti-theism protest theology theogony...

...: the opening columns describing a peculiar ritual, the Orphic theogony and its explanation with the help of Presocratic allegorical, theological, and physical conceptual devices. In general, the study argues that rather than being the work of a philosophising Orphic initiate, the Derveni treatise contains text...

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...This book both offers a reading of Hesiod’s Theogony and traces the reception and shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman texts up to Milton’s Paradise Lost. It also considers the poem in light of Near Eastern creation stories...

...Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods is a literary history that attempts to reconstruct the fragments of four theogonies that were attributed to the legendary singer Orpheus: the Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic Theogonies. Most modern scholars have described these poems...

... Theogony Socrates + 397e–398a Theogony Socrates + 402b + Socrates + 406d Theogony Socrates ± 428a Works and Days Hermogenes + Euthyphro 6a...

...This chapter asks what the Theogony can teach us about the advent of evil in the Timaeus, and in so doing, uncovers a ‘a remarkably deep isomorphism’ between the two texts: both, for example, introduce first the potential for evil (Hesiodic Chaos and its...