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Hesiod: Theogonia
    Click to Expand/Collapse Option Complete text
Click to Expand/Collapse Option1-115: Prooemium
Click to Expand/Collapse Option116-153: The Beginning of Things, Chaos, Gaia, Uranos
Click to Expand/Collapse Option154-210: The Castration of Uranus
Click to Expand/Collapse Option211-232: Night and her Offspring
Click to Expand/Collapse Option233-336: The Offspring of Pontus
Click to Expand/Collapse Option337-370: Children of Tethys and Oceanus: Catalogue of Rivers and the Oceanides
Click to Expand/Collapse Option371-403: The Offspring of Theia and Hyperion, Creias and Eurybia
Click to Expand/Collapse Option404-452: Hecate
Click to Expand/Collapse Option453-506: Birth of Zeus
Click to Expand/Collapse Option507-616: Iapetus und Klymene
Click to Expand/Collapse Option617-719: Titanomachia
Click to Expand/Collapse Option720-779: Tartarus
Click to Expand/Collapse Option820-880: Typhoeus
Click to Expand/Collapse Option881-1020: The Rulership Zeus
Click to Expand/Collapse Option1021-1022: Greeting the Muses
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The Offspring of Theia and Hyperion, Creias and Eurybia 
 
Θεία δ’ Ἠέλιόν τε μέγαν λαμπράν τε Σελήνην
Ἠῶ θ’, ἣ πάντεσσιν ἐπιχθονίοισι φαείνει
ἀθανάτοις τε θεοῖσι τοὶ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἔχουσι,
γείναθ’ ὑποδμηθεῖσ’ Ὑπερίονος ἐν φιλότητι. 
371-374 And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helius (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shines upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven. 
Κρείῳ δ’ Εὐρυβίη τέκεν ἐν φιλότητι μιγεῖσα
Ἀστραῖόν τε μέγαν Πάλλαντά τε δῖα θεάων
Πέρσην θ’, ὃς καὶ πᾶσι μετέπρεπεν ἰδμοσύνῃσιν. 
375-377 And Eurybia, bright goddess, was joined in love to Crius and bare great Astraeus, and Pallas, and Perses who also was eminent among all men in wisdom. 
Ἀστραίῳ δ’ Ἠὼς ἀνέμους τέκε καρτεροθύμους,
ἀργεστὴν Ζέφυρον Βορέην τ’ αἰψηροκέλευθον
καὶ Νότον, ἐν φιλότητι θεὰ θεῷ εὐνηθεῖσα. 
378-380 And Eos bare to Astraeus the strong-hearted winds, brightening Zephyrus, and Boreas, headlong in his course, and Notus,--a goddess mating in love with a god. 
τοὺς δὲ μέτ’ ἀστέρα τίκτεν Ἑωσφόρον Ἠριγένεια
ἄστρά τε λαμπετόωντα, τά τ’ οὐρανὸς ἐστεφάνωται. 
381-382 And after these Erigenia bare the star Eosphorus (Dawn-bringer), and the gleaming stars with which heaven is crowned. 
Στὺξ δ’ ἔτεκ’ Ὠκεανοῦ θυγάτηρ Πάλλαντι μιγεῖσα
Ζῆλον καὶ Νίκην καλλίσφυρον ἐν μεγάροισι
καὶ Κράτος ἠδὲ Βίην ἀριδείκετα γείνατο τέκνα. 
383-385 And Styx the daughter of Ocean was joined to Pallas and bare Zelus (Emulation) and trim-ankled Nike (Victory) in the house. Also she brought forth Cratos (Strength) and Bia (Force), wonderful children. 
τῶν οὐκ ἔστ’ ἀπάνευθε Διὸς δόμος, οὐδέ τις ἕδρη,
οὐδ’ ὁδός, ὅππῃ μὴ κείνοις θεὸς ἡγεμονεύει,
ἀλλ’ αἰεὶ πὰρ Ζηνὶ βαρυκτύπῳ ἑδριόωνται.
ὣς γὰρ ἐβούλευσε Στὺξ ἄφθιτος Ὠκεανίνη
ἤματι τῷ, ὅτε πάντας Ὀλύμπιος ἀστεροπητὴς
ἀθανάτους ἐκάλεσσε θεοὺς ἐς μακρὸν Ὄλυμπον,
εἶπε δ’, ὃς ἂν μετὰ εἷο θεῶν Τιτῆσι μάχοιτο,
μή τιν’ ἀπορραίσειν γεράων, τιμὴν δὲ ἕκαστον
ἑξέμεν, ἣν τὸ πάρος γε, μετ’ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι. 
386-394 These have no house apart from Zeus, nor any dwelling nor path except that wherein God leads them, but they dwell always with Zeus the loud-thunderer. For so did Styx the deathless daughter of Ocean plan on that day when the Olympian Lightener called all the deathless gods to great Olympus, and said that whosoever of the gods would fight with him against the Titans, he would not cast him out from his rights, but each should have the office which he had before amongst the deathless gods. 
τὸν δ’ ἔφαθ’, ὅστις ἄτιμος ὑπὸ Κρόνου ἠδ’ ἀγέραστος,
τιμῆς καὶ γεράων ἐπιβησέμεν, ἣ θέμις ἐστίν.
ἦλθε δ’ ἄρα πρώτη Στὺξ ἄφθιτος Οὔλυμπόνδε
σὺν σφοῖσιν παίδεσσι φίλου διὰ μήδεα πατρός·
τὴν δὲ Ζεὺς τίμησε, περισσὰ δὲ δῶρα ἔδωκεν.
αὐτὴν μὲν γὰρ ἔθηκε θεῶν μέγαν ἔμμεναι ὅρκον,
παῖδας δ’ ἤματα πάντα ἑοῦ μεταναιέτας εἶναι.
ὣς δ’ αὔτως πάντεσσι διαμπερές, ὥς περ ὑπέστη,
ἐξετέλεσσ’· αὐτὸς δὲ μέγα κρατεῖ ἠδὲ ἀνάσσει. 
395-403 And he declared that he who was without office and rights under Cronos, should be raised to both office and rights as is just. So deathless Styx came first to Olympus with her children through the wit of her dear father. And Zeus honoured her, and gave her very great gifts, for her he appointed to be the great oath of the gods, and her children to live with him always. And as he promised, so he performed fully unto them aBut he himself mightily reigns and rules. 
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