The sources of Theogony

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

theogony 2 sources

the Muses' revelation of the origin and generations of the gods · the inspired song of the Muses of Olympus (invoked as the source for the catalogue of goddesses and mortal women)

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of this book is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 extended 1 citation

   book 1

   The Theogony is explicitly named as Hesiod's account of the gods' origin, which Zeno reinterprets.

   And when he interprets Hesiod's Theogony — that is, the origin of the gods — he abolishes altogether the customary and received notions of the gods;

2. Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 neutral 1 citation

   protrepticus

   Explicitly named as author of the theogony of the twelve gods.

   There is a sixth, an introductory, manner of deception that produces gods, according to which they reckon the twelve gods — of whom Hesiod sings his own theogony, and all that Homer treats of as theology.

3. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 7

   Cited as report of the sacrificial myth being critiqued.

   And Hesiod somewhere, regarding a division of meats by which Zeus was deceived by Prometheus, says that Zeus took "the white bones of an ox, by a cunning art" covered "with white fat";

4. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 extended 1 citation

   oration 2

   The passage about Calliope attending kings is from Hesiod's Theogony and is used to extend/support the argument about kingly rhetoric.

   "And it appears that not Homer only, but Hesiod too, was of this mind, that both philosophy and true rhetoric befit the king;

5. Symposium Plato 1 authority 1 citation

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   Hesiod is named explicitly and quoted in substance (paraphrased as verse) to support the claim about Love's primordial birth.

   Hesiod says that Chaos came first into being— and thereafter rose Broad-breasted Earth, sure seat of all for aye, And Love.