According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus ' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam ( aphros ) arose Aphrodite.

Towards the end of Hesiod's Theogony ( 1011f ), we find that Circe bore Odysseus three sons: Ardeas or Agrius ( otherwise unknown ); Latinus ; and Telegonus, who ruled over the Tyrsenoi, that is the Etruscans.

The depiction of Cerberus is relatively consistent between different works and authors, the common theme of the mane of serpents is kept across works, as is the serpent's tail, most literary works of the era describe Cerberus as having three heads with the only notable exception being Hesiod's Theogony in which he had 50 heads.

Cerberus ' depiction in ancient art is not as definitive as in literature ; the poets and linguists of ancient Greece and Rome mostly agreed on the physical appearance ( with the notable exception in Hesiod's Theogony in which he had 50 heads ).

In the following stage, the poets Hesiod and Homer attempt to enumerate the Gods ; Hesiod's Theogony giving the number of twelve.

In Hesiod's Theogony, Demeter is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea.

Plato's work Timaeus is a philosophical reconciliation of Hesiod's cosmology in his Theogony, syncretically reconciling Hesiod to Homer.

In Hesiod's Theogony, ( 226 – 232 ) Strife, the daughter of Night is less kindly spoken of as she brings forth other personifications as her children:

The story of Prometheus ' sacrifice-trick in Hesiod's Theogony relates how Prometheus tricked Zeus into choosing the bones and fat of the first sacrificial animal rather than the meat to justify why, after a sacrifice, the Greeks offered the bones wrapped in fat to the gods while keeping the meat for themselves.

* Hesiod's Theogony

Epic narrative allowed poets like Homer no opportunity for personal revelations but Hesiod's extant work comprises didactic poems and here he went out of his way to let his audience in on a few details of his life, including three explicit references in Works and Days, as well as some passages in his Theogony that support inferences.

While they may be very different in subject matter, Theogony and Works and Days share a distinctive language, metre and prosody that subtly distinguish them from Homer's work and from the Shield of Heracles ( see Hesiod's Greek below ).

The Theogony is commonly considered Hesiod's earliest work.

Hesiod's Theogony and Aeschylus ' Prometheus Unbound both tell that Heracles shot and killed the eagle that tortured Prometheus ( which was his punishment by Zeus for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mortals ).

Hesiod's Theogony identifies her as the daughter of Eris (" strife "), and the sister of Ponos (" toil "), Limos (" starvation "), the Algea (" pains "), the Hysminai (" fightings "), the Makhai (" battles "), the Phonoi (" murders "), the Androktasiai (" man-slaughters "), the Neikea (" quarrels "), the Pseudologoi (" lies "), the Amphilogiai (" disputes "), Dysnomia (" lawlessness "), Atë (" ruin "), and Horkos (" oath ").

The Prometheus myth first appeared in the late 8th-century BC Greek epic poet Hesiod's Theogony ( lines 507 – 616 ).

It is first mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony.

The Pandora myth first appears in lines 560 – 612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, the Theogony ( ca.

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.

In Hesiod's Theogony Zeus assigns the various gods their roles.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, Triton dwelt with his parents in a golden palace in the depths of the sea ; Homer places his seat in the waters off Aegae.

In the tradition represented by Hesiod's Theogony, Cronus swallowed all of his children immediately after birth.

The Hurrian myth “ The Songs of Ullikummi ”, preserved among the Hittites, is a parallel to Hesiod's Theogony ; the castration of Uranus by Cronus may be derived from the castration of Anu by Kumarbi, while Zeus's overthrow of Cronus and Cronus's regurgitation of the swallowed gods is like the Hurrian myth of Teshub and Kumarbi.

In Hesiod's Theogony, kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne and their special relationship with the Muses.

In Hesiod's Theogony, Zeus releases three Cyclopes, the sons of Uranus and Gaia, from the dark pit of Tartarus.

In handling this theme, Virgil follows in the didactic ( instructive ) tradition of the Greek poet Hesiod's Works and Days and several works of the later Hellenistic poets.

The story differs somewhat in different ancient sources ; what follows is Hesiod's version.

In Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Zeus granted that Hades could abduct Persephone, suggesting that their roles are sometimes interchangeable.

In Homer's Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the Sun is once in each work called Hyperionides () ' son of Hyperion ', and Hesiod certainly imagines Hyperion as a separate being in other writings.

To what extent the earliest Greek literary sources, Homeric epics ( 8th-7th century ) and Hesiod's Works and Days ( 7th century ) describe life in the 9th-8th centuries remains a matter of considerable debate.

Hesiod's account and description of the Muses was the one generally followed by the writers of antiquity.

Based on Hesiod's description, the debate is still alive to determine if Elpis was only hope, or more generally expectation.

The myths of the Chimera can be found in Pseudo-Apollodorus ' Bibliotheca ( book 1 ), Homer's Iliad ( book 6 ); Hyginus ' Fabulae 57 and 151 ; Ovid's Metamorphoses ( book VI 339 ; IX 648 ); and Hesiod's Theogony 319ff.

Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Phorcys and Ceto as Echidna, The Gorgons ( Euryale, Stheno, and the famous Medusa ), The Graeae ( Deino, Enyo, and Pemphredo ), and Ladon, also called the Drakon Hesperios (" Hesperian Dragon ", or dragon of the Hesperides ).

Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Phorcys and Ceto as Echidna, The Gorgons ( Euryale, Stheno, and the famous Medusa ), The Graeae ( Deino, Enyo, and Pemphredo ), and Ladon, also called the Drakon Hesperios (" Hesperian Dragon ", or dragon of the Hesperides ).

However Hesiod's genealogy here is unclear, he says these two were fathered by Orthrus, but he has been read variously as saying that Echidna, the Chimaera, or even Ceto, was their mother.

She is mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony.

She is mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony.

Among his other productions was an edition of Hesiod's Works and Days, with valuable notes, and a translation in terza rima.

He remarks that there is a curious correlation between Pandora being made out of earth in Hesiod's story, to what is in the Bibliotheca that Prometheus created man from water and earth.

Amphitrite was a daughter of Nereus and Doris ( and thus a Nereid ), according to Hesiod's Theogony, but of Oceanus and Tethys ( and thus an Oceanid ), according to the Bibliotheca, which actually lists her among both of the Nereids and the Oceanids.

In Hesiod's Theogony and in the Bibliotheca, Astraeus is a second-generation Titan, descended from Crius and Eurybia.