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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 the first Greek mythical
cosmogony. The initial state of the universe is chaos, a dark
indefinite void considered as a divine primordial condition from
which everything else appeared. Theogony is 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.
Work and days is a didactic poem of some 800 verses written by the
ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC. At its center, the Works
and Days is a farmer's almanac in which Hesiod instructs his
brother Perses in the agricultural arts. Scholars have seen this
work against a background of agrarian crisis in mainland Greece,
which inspired a wave of colonial expeditions in search of new
land. In the poem Hesiod also offers his brother extensive
moralizing advice on how he should live his life.
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