Immerse In Theogony Published By Hesiod File Digital Edition

you really want to start at the beginning You read Theogony, Wonderful poetry by Hesiod. And it reminded me so much of some biblical texts as well as The Iliad and The Odyssey.
It's more than a poem, It's a powerful connection with our forefathers who wrote this outstanding piece of cultural rich deitygenealogy as well as cosmology all those thousands of years ago! Key reading to anyone interested in Western Philosophy and Culture.
Stars. Absolutely! Arma deumque cano
Es ist schon peinlich da kommen im Fernsehen diese amerikanischen Blockbuster "Kampf der Titanen" und "Zorn der Götter" und so weiter, und man wird für einen klugen, gebildeten Menschen gehalten und daher gefragt, was nun dieser oder jener Gott so für Eigenschaften hat und ob nun Athene mit Zeus verwandt ist und wer der langhaarige, dauerflüsternde Bursche ist, der so viel Unheil plant.
Und dann steht man da und ist stellenweise ratlos, weil man selbst kaum durch die von sich aus schon verquaste griechische Mythologie, die in den Filmen dann noch mehr verquast und zerzauselt wird, versteht.


Dem Abhilfe kann man natürlich durch Lektüre von Texten wie der "Theogonie" des griechischen Dichters Hesiod schaffen.
Ist man danach in der Lage, die Filme zu erklären Ja und nein, Einerseits erfährt man doch einiges, was der oberflächliche Kontakt, zum Beispiel aus dem Schulunterricht, eher auslassen würde doch dies ist dann halt in einer Schale ausJahren Zeitunterschied gekapselt, die zu knacken nicht ganz einfach ist, obwohl wir es hier schon mit einer, für meinen Geschmack, modernen, gut lesbaren Prosaübersetzung zu tun haben.


Durch die Übersetzung der Namen der Götter, wie Klugheit für Metis, Furcht für Phobos und so weiter wird der allegorische Charakter der Theogonie dem Leser deutlich: die Gefühle Angst und Schrecken stammen von Kriegsgott Ares ab Zeus nimmt Metis in sich auf und herrscht daher von nun an klug und weise.
Flussgottheiten entstehen aus den Ehen der Meergottheiten, Erdbeben und Vulkane ziehen ihre Kraft aus den im Tartaros gefangenen Titanen: Die "Theogonie" ist nicht nur die Genealogie der Götter, sondern auch eine Erklärung der Struktur der Welt.
Letztlich sind die Götter und die Natur aber nicht voneinander abgrenzbar, sondern fließen ineinander: Mit den Göttern wird der sonst so unverständliche Kosmos erklärt, oder, wie es der Herausgeber viel verständlicher in seinem Nachwort auf S.
schreibt: "Das genealogische Schema wird zum ontologischen System, " Dass dabei noch ältere hethitische und phönikische und sumerische Religionsbilder mit verarbeitet werden gibt dem ganzen dann eine noch tiefergreifende Komponente nichts entsteht aus dem Vakuum.


Ganz ehrlich: Ohne die Anmerkungen bleibt einem viel verborgen, wenn man den Text so liest, Viel Information wird aus anderen Quellen ergänzt, anders kann man sich nicht erklären, woher der Übersetzer sonst diese durchaus einleuchtenden Interpretationen des wegen seiner Knappheit sehr interpretationsbedürftigen Texts her hat im Text selbst jedenfalls bleibt viel kryptisch und nur angedeutet.
Wer Homers Ilias oder Odyssee mochte, und erhofft, ähnlich spannende und dramatische Szenen wie dort erzählt zu bekommen, wird enttäuscht im Gegensatz zu Homer ist Hesiod kein Berichterstatter, sondern ein Protophilosoph mit einer Neigung zur Lyrik, den die Leiden der Menschen, die Homer so begeistern, wenig interessieren.


Wer sich also für griechische Mythologie interessiert, sollte zumindest ein Grundgerüst an Wissen bereits mitbringen, um Hesiods Gedicht würdigen zu können.
Da es ein recht kurzer Text ist nur ca,/derSeiten sind die Übersetzung, der Rest ist griechisches Original, Anmerkungen und Nachwort insgesamt ein sehr ansehnlicher und gelungener Apparat, wenn auch das Nachwort etwas verkopft ist, wie das bei solchen deutschen Nachworten üblich ist, sollte es nicht viel Überwindung kosten, sich dieses uralte Stück Menschheitsgeschichte in einigen ruhigen Minuten zu gönnen.
There is, unfortunately, very little value in this poem outside of its academic worth, Of course, it is incredibly noteworthy as an epic predecessor of Homer's works I myself have an unhealthy academic interest in epic literature, and gives an interesting alternative view of some of the myths we treat as canonical today the titans are listed as gargantuan grotesques having fifty heads each Medusa appears fated differently and Hecate, ever viewed as the grand mistress of Hell, is actually mentioned as the favourite of Zues and humans alike, lacking the malice of later versions of herself.
However, for all of the work's brevity, it demands a tolerance for extraneous lists of names ever a demand of Ancient Greek poems, and no promise of plot or tale.
It's really cool to read a poem written overyears ago and realize that the poet and you share many similarities.
Hesiod's description of beautiful women correspond to women I'd consider beautiful today, shapely bodies and big breasts, and his ideal men are strong and heroic similar to today I guess society really hasn't changed many of its ideals much.
Some slight background on the guy: Hesiod was one of the earliest Greek poets and Theogony is his tale of how the gods came to be.
We've all heard the stories of Zeus and Kronos and the rest of the crew, but Hesiod's retelling is beautiful and his descriptions of the battles are terrifying in their awesomeness.
Hesiod also jumps around and the story isn't exactly in chronological order, He mentions Hercules a few times, but doesn't necessarily stop and retell the whole story, implying that the audience is well aware of many of these tales.
You can also see familiar Christian phrases like "the last shall be first and the first shall be last" when he's talking about the power exercised by Hecate over mortals.
Es una de las obras maestras de la mitología porque es la madre de todas las historias sin embargo el estilo de Hesíodo dista de ser muy entretenido o llevadero.


Es un buen recuento de las leyendas originarias y lamentablemente su poca extensión no hace que tenga mayor protagonismo.
One cannot compare Hesiods Theogony with Homers Illiad or Ovids Metamorphoses for that matter, Hesiods poem does not have the wit and irony of Ovids work nor the intriguing plot of an Illiad or an Odysseus.
It describes how the Greek universe with its gods came into existence and how Zeus gained sovereignty over the world as “father of gods and men”.
I would not choose this as a bedside reading, unless you have difficulties with falling asleep: This is sometimes more a list than a poem, telling who copulates with whom and who is the offspring from these encounters.
It has the same effect like counting sheep you doze off, Once Zeus has secured his reign and the Titans are locked up in Tartaros, that is exactly what he does most of the time: he procreates happily with goddesses and humans.


This leads to the legitimate question, why read it in the first place There are a lot of good reasons: Theogony is most probably according to Richard S.
Caldwell the oldest work of Greek literature we have known so far, It was composed during theth century B, C. It is to some extent the Greek history of creation, In my opinion Theogony is therefore the right book to start with if you like to build up your knowledge of Classical Mythology.
I readlines daily the poem haslines together with my morning coffee and this was the perfect time.


I highly appreciated the edition of Focus Classical Library, translated and commented by Richard S, Caldwell. This edition offers accessible tables, illustrating the different family trees, a very helpful introduction and commentaries, It has also a psychological interpretation of myth which one might find helpful, I would have preferred the incorporation of Hesiods second work “Works and Days” instead, of which this edition offers only a short appendix.

Espécie de Gênesis grega, descreve a criação e nascimento dos Deuses,
Até a páginadetemos as explicações e por fim o poema em si,
Para entender mais a fundo a mitologia grega, Belo. The Greek Genesis
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There seems to be a debate as to the usefulness of this little text and I would pretty much fall into the category of not much.
The reason that I say that is because if this book was lost then we would lose very little of our understanding of Greek Mythology.
Everything that is contained in this little book is also contained in more expanded works such as the sitelinkLibrary of Greek Mythology and sitelinkOvid.
While it is a primary source, it is still something that we could probably do without, Fortunately its small size means that it does not take up much space on my bookshelf, however I would probably not find myself ever actually needing to reference it.
Okay, we could probably use it to talk about the accuracy of later works, but then again, this is Greek mythology, there is no consistency in it.
In fact, there isn't

even any consistency with the twelve tasks of Heracles,

Now, you would probably say that since this book is one of the earliest Greek texts then it gives us an idea of the development of Greek mythology, and yes, that is probably true to an extent, and from an anthropological view that is probably important, but I am not interested in that.
On the other hand a lot of authors seem to look back at Hesiod with some sought of awe, and granted, it helps us understand the background from which they were writing, but remember most of Greek mythology back at this time was passed down by word of mouth and Hesiod is only one view of it.


I have written before, and will continue to write, about how my position with regards to the Greek gods is that they were humans that were deified, and Hesiod once again goes on to prove that point.
This is a genealogical text much in the same way that sections of the Bible are genealogical texts, however by the time that Hesiod came around the Greek Gods had already been deified.
There are some major differences between the two forms of genealogy though, As mentioned, the nonbiblical genealogies tend to deal only with the gods, unless you are looking at a familial genealogy, where as the Biblical genealogies all deal with humans, and the Bible is very specific that the people mention in the genealogies are human.
Secondly the biblical genealogies actually serve a purpose where as the nonbiblical genealogies are simply a list of names.


The purpose of the biblical genealogy is to trace the line of people who in the end become the ancestors of Christ.
These genealogies tend to reach their fulfillment in the Gospels, with both Matthew and Luke and also, as some have argued, with John as well containing genealogies.
We do note that there are differences in the genealogies, and some have criticised the Bible for that, but I will simply say that the differences simply come out of methodology as opposed to inherent errors.
My understanding is that in both maths and science one can reach the same proof even though two different methodologies were used.


Basically, whenever we see a genealogy in the Old Testament we are always looking at how it is directing us towards the saviour that was promised in Genesis.
For those who are familiar with these genealogies you will note that they tend to only go down in one line, meaning that while a list of children may be given, the genealogy will end up focusing only one a handful of these children to narrow it down to a specific point.
The exception is the table of nations in Genesis, the purpose of which is to outline the beginning of the nations as the readers would have known them to be at the time namely during the Exodus.
We do see a similarity between the table of nations and some Greek genealogies as it appears that a nation back then was defined by the father of the nation as opposed to a specific culture, language group, or location and Apollodorus does give us that idea in the library of Greek Mythology.


There is a mention of the war of the Gods in Hesiod, and once again I have speculated on the origins of these wars.
They can be twofold. The first is the idea that these wars developed out of different tribal groups moving into an already inhabited area bring their own culture and gods with them, winning a victory over the inhabitants, and installing their own culture as defined by their gods.
For instance, in early times we have a people group who worshipped Chronos as their chief God, but then they are invaded by a people who worshipped Zeus as their chief God and as the new group overran and conquered the old group, then Chronos was sidelined in favour of Zeus.


The second idea is the idea that I have proposed that these gods are little more than deified humans whose existence has been lost in the midst of times, so what we are actually seeing is some form of succession crisis.
This would be particularly relevant if we are looking at an Antediluvian civilisation, In the era of short life spans and high morality, such succession crises would not be evident since when the old king died then the new king would still be old enough to assume the throne, but young enough not to have a number of children that would have to wait a long time for them to ascend the throne amongst a multitude of competeing claims.
It differs today in that the Queen of England, the matriarch of the royal family, is still alive and well, and her grandchildren are now ready to marry and have kids.
Pope John Paul II was the oldest living Pope in the history of the papacy, and it is likely that Pope Benedict will be around for a long time yet unless he meets either with an unfortunate accident, or is removed for some reason or another noting that this review was written prior to him stepping down.


When you have the antediluvian civilisation, where biblically and elsewhere you have people living for hundreds of years, even if you did not begin having children until the age of a hundred, by the time you die even if it is five to six hundred years old you still have at least four living generations below you, all of them struggling to get your position, and knowing that for them to get to that position they would have to wait a very long time.
This is something that we see in this text, namely a fear in Chronos that his children would rise up and overthrow him, so he acts proactively and removes them before they have a chance of removing him.
Much of it is allegorical though and for the sake of space I will not go into detail here, for instance the gods all seem to have been born as adults, and also Chronos eats his children, but upon his defeat, all of them are released so it can be difficult to understand what actually went on, though to take it literally can in itself be dangerous and also somewhat ridiculous.


The final point I wish to make is the interesting note that Hesiod was a shephard tending sheep on Mount Helicon when he received this vision and wrote it down.
This is something that seems to happen throughout the history of humanity in that many religious icons seem to have come from humble pasts and have made a tremendous impact upon human history.
Many have suggested and it is true to an extent that history, up until the midth century, was written by the upper class.
However the reason for that is because it was only the upper class that had the time to write histories, as well as being the only ones who could read and write.
However, this is not always the case, particularly with these early civilisations, because much of the history was passed down by word of mouth.
This is why we can have shepherds actually becoming literary heroes because they did not need to read and write, they simply needed to be able to tell a story people could remember, and also convince them that they had a vision or actually have had a vision to make people sit up and listen.
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