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Hesiod, Theogony, 346-361

τίκτε δὲ θυγατέρων ἱερὸν γένος, αἳ κατὰ γαῖαν

People have said, was joined in union

ἄνδρας κουρίζουσι σὺν Ἀπόλλωνι ἄνακτι

With her of the flashing eyes, and she grew round

καὶ Ποταμοῖς, ταύτην δὲ Διὸς πάρα μοῖραν ἔχουσι

And bore fierce offspring – first Orthis, the hound

Πειθώ τʼ Ἀδμήτη τε Ἰάνθη τʼ Ἠλέκτρη τε

Of Geryon, then a beast one can’t defeat

Δωρίς τε Πρυμνώ τε καὶ Οὐρανίη θεοειδὴς

The loud-voiced Cerberus who eats raw meat

Ἱππώ τε Κλυμένη τε Ῥόδειά τε Καλλιρόη τε

The Hound of Hell, the fifty-headed one

Ζευξώ τε Κλυτίη τε Ἰδυῖά τε Πασιθόη τε

Strong and relentless. Still she was not done

Πληξαύρη τε Γαλαξαύρη τʼ ἐρατή τε Διώνη

For then she bore the Hydra, foul and cursed

Μηλόβοσίς τε Φόη τε καὶ εὐειδὴς Πολυδώρη

Of Lerna, which the white-armed Hera nursed

Κερκηίς τε φυὴν ἐρατὴ Πλουτώ τε βοῶπις

In anger at great Heracles, the son

Περσηίς τʼ Ἰάνειρά τʼ Ἀκάστη τε Ξάνθη τε

Of Zeus and from the house of Amphitryon

Πετραίη τʼ ἐρόεσσα Μενεσθώ τʼ Εὐρώπη τε

Who slew Echidna with the warlike aid

Μῆτίς τʼ Εὐρυνόμη τε Τελεστώ τε Κροκοπεπλος

Of Iolaus and the forager maid

Χρυσηίς τʼ Ἀσίη τε καὶ ἱμερόεσσα Καλυψὼ

Athene, with his ruthless sword. And she

Εὐδώρη τε Τύχη τε καὶ Ἀμφιρὼ Ὠκυρόη τε

Had borne Chimaera who relentlessly

καὶ Στύξ, ἣ δή σφεων προφερεστάτη ἐστὶν ἁπασέων.

Breathed fire, mighty, swiftly-moving, dread

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

11 results

1. Hesiod, Theogony, 116-125, 129-236, 243, 245, 251, 254, 262, 265-345, 347-375, 380, 383-511, 736-766, 77-79, 795-799, 80, 800-806, 83-84, 115 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

115. Hail, Zeus’s progeny, and give to me

2. Homer, Iliad, 23.146 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

23.146. /that when I had come home thither to my dear native land, I would shear my hair to thee and offer a holy hecatomb, and on the selfsame spot would sacrifice fifty rams, males without blemish, into thy waters, where is thy demesne and thy fragrant altar. So vowed that old man, but thou didst not fulfill for him his desire.

3. Homer, Odyssey, 11.245 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

4. Xenophanes, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

5. Xenophanes, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

6. Xenophanes, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. Empedocles, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

8. Plato, Symposium, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

178b. of the most venerable are the honors of this god, and the proof of it is this: parents of Love there are none, nor are any recorded in either prose or verse. Hesiod says that Chaos came first into being— and thereafter rose Broad-breasted Earth, sure seat of all for aye, And Love. Acusilaus also agrees with Hesiod, saying that after Chaos were born these two, Earth and Love. Parmenides says of Birth that she invented Love before all other gods.

9. Plato, Theaetetus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

149c. THEAET. Very likely. SOC. Is it not, then, also likely and even necessary, that midwives should know better than anyone else who are pregt and who are not? THEAET. Certainly. SOC. And furthermore, the midwives, by means of drug

10. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 3.104 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

11. Dionysius, Description of The Inhabited World, 124-126, 123 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
air (element)	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 85
allusion/allusiveness	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 296
artemis (goddess)	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
boedeker, deborah	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
catalogue	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 85, 277
catalogue of women (hesiod)	Laemmle, Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Towards a Poetics of Enumeration (2021) 200
comparison	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 296
cronus	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 277
daimôn	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 85
earth (element)	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 85
eileithyia (goddess)	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
epic poetry	Pamias, Apollodoriana: Ancient Myths, New Crossroads (2017) 231
epistemology	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 85
eros	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 85
genre	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 296; Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 85
god/goddess	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 296
gods, lists of	Laemmle, Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Towards a Poetics of Enumeration (2021) 200
golden, m.	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
hapax legomenon	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 296
hesiod	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 296; Laemmle, Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Towards a Poetics of Enumeration (2021) 200
hexameter (poetry)	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 85
homer, iliad	Laemmle, Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Towards a Poetics of Enumeration (2021) 200
homer	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 296; Laemmle, Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Towards a Poetics of Enumeration (2021) 200
homeric hymns, apollo	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
homeric hymns, demeter	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
image, poetological	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 296
imaginary world	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 296
intertextuality	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 296
king, helen	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
life-change rituals, adolescence and puberty	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
life-change rituals, babys first bath	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
life-change rituals, pregnancy and birth	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
life-change rituals	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
literary world	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 296
love/philotês (in empedocles)	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 277
numbers	Laemmle, Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Towards a Poetics of Enumeration (2021) 200
oath/oath	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 85
ocean/oceanus	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 277
ovid	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
parker, robert c. t.	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
poetological	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 296
rationalization	Pamias, Apollodoriana: Ancient Myths, New Crossroads (2017) 231
real world\n, (of) names	Laemmle, Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Towards a Poetics of Enumeration (2021) 200
real world\n, (of/on/generating new) lists	Laemmle, Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Towards a Poetics of Enumeration (2021) 200
simile, geographical	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 296
simile	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 296
sources of the bibliotheca	Pamias, Apollodoriana: Ancient Myths, New Crossroads (2017) 231
styx	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 85, 277
tartarus	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 85
theogony	Pamias, Apollodoriana: Ancient Myths, New Crossroads (2017) 231
titans	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 277
women, childbirth rituals	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
women, divine protection in childbirth	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
women, marriage	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
women, midwives	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
women, physiological change and pollution	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
women, role in death ceremonies'	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524