The Poems of Hesiod

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by Hesiod


  PERSEUS: hero who slew the Gorgon Medusa. 41, 49, 147, 151, 152, 155, 162, 163, 166

  PHOIBÊ (fē-bē): “shining goddess,” a Titan, mother of Leto. 37, 63

  PHOIBOS (fē-bos): see Apollo.

  PHORKYS (for-kis): a sea god. 47, 49, 50, 53, 54, 56

  PIERIA: an area of southeastern MACEDONIA sacred to the Muses. 34, 109, 160

  PLEIADÊS (plē-a-dēz): daughters of Atlas, a constellation in the constellation Taurus. 49, 86, 123, 133, 134

  PLOUTOS: “wealth,” son of Demeter and Iasion, often identified with Hades. 78, 88, 90

  POSEIDON: son of Kronos and Rhea, lord of the sea, god of earthquakes and horses. 22, 25, 31, 33, 47, 48, 49, 53, 64, 65, 76, 137, 148, 156, 159

  PROMETHEUS: “forethinker,” a Titan who deceives Zeus at Mekonê and steals fire in a fennel stalk. 18, 26, 27, 33, 37, 67–71, 73, 97, 99, 101, 111, 112

  RACE OF HEROES: the fourth of the five races of humankind. 98–100, 115

  RETRIBUTION (Nemesis): a personification. 116, 117

  RHEA (rē-a): consort of Kronos, mother of the Olympians. 22, 24–28, 37, 64–66, 73

  SEA (Pontos): father with Earth of many monsters. 22, 24, 27, 36–38, 45, 47, 50, 57, 80, 94, 153

  SEMELÊ (sem-e-lē): mother of Dionysos. 86, 87, 90, 91

  SHAME (Aidos): a personification. 116, 121

  SILVER RACE: the second of the five races of humankind. 98, 99, 101, 114, 115

  SIRIUS: the Dog Star, harbinger of the Dog Days. 125, 133, 134, 157, 169

  SKY (Ouranos, oo-ra-nos): a child of Earth. 12, 14, 16, 17, 21–28, 34, 36–42, 44, 62, 66, 67, 73–75, 80, 83, 84, 142

  SLEEP (Hypnos): a god, brother of Death. 42, 46, 77, 80

  SPHINX: a winged, devouring female monster with a lion’s body, child of Chimaira. 24, 54, 56, 153

  STRIFE (Eris): a child of Night (Nyx). 45, 46, 101–103, 109, 110, 142, 147, 157

  STYX: “hateful,” an Oceanid and underworld river. 57, 60, 63, 77, 79, 80

  SUCCESSION MYTH: a mythic pattern wherein a generation overthrows the one preceding. 12, 13, 26, 27, 41, 66, 83

  SUN (Helios): a child of Hyperion. 33, 37, 60, 61, 90, 92

  TARTAROS: a dark place beneath Earth, later confused with the House of Hades. 21, 23, 25, 29, 36, 37, 38, 67, 73, 75, 76, 79, 80, 81, 164

  TELEGONOS (tel-e-gon-os): son of Circe and Odysseus. 95, 96

  TETHYS (tē-this): a watery goddess, the consort of Ocean. 22, 37, 54, 58, 59

  THEBES: a major city, capital of Boeotia. 1, 4, 31, 86, 90, 99, 100, 115, 145, 147, 148, 150, 151, 153–156, 164

  THEIA (thē-a): “goddess,” a Titan, mother of Sun, Moon, and Dawn. 22, 23, 37, 58, 61

  THEMIS: “law,” a Titan. 22, 31, 33, 37, 83, 85

  theogony: “the begetting of the gods.” 1, 2, 9, 13, 16, 17, 21, 22, 31, 33, 37, 84, 97, 104, 109, 111, 137, 153, 164, 173, 175, 178

  THESEUS: Athenian hero, slayer of the Minotaur and son of Aegeus. 88, 117, 158, 159, 161

  THESSALY: territory in northern Greece. 57, 73, 135, 146, 154, 159, 160, 169

  THETIS (thē-tis): a Nereid, mother of Achilles. 24, 47, 50, 94

  TIRYNS: important citadel near MYCENAE on the Argive Plain, home to Herakles. 52, 145, 151, 155

  TITANOMACHY (tī-tan-o-ma-kē): the battle between the Olympian gods and the Titans. 25, 73

  TITANS: the children of Sky and Earth. 17, 22, 23–26, 29, 33, 37, 40, 42, 60, 62, 67, 73–76, 79–81, 83, 99, 97, 114, 123

  TITHONOS (tith-ō-nos): a Trojan prince abducted by Dawn. 90, 92, 93

  TRITOGENEIA (trī-to-ghen-ē-a): an epithet of Athena. 83, 84, 160

  TRITON (trī-ton): a sea god, son of Amphitritê and Poseidon. 86

  TROY: citadel in Asia Minor. 57, 92, 99, 100, 115, 137

  TYPHON (tī-fon): a gigantic monster, enemy of Zeus. 9, 13, 17, 25, 26, 27, 29, 52, 54, 56, 70, 80–82, 153

  TYRSENIANS: the Etruscans. 96

  ZEUS: king of the Olympians and Greek storm god. 1, 9, 11, 13, 16, 17, 21–29, 31, 33–37, 39, 49, 51, 54, 57, 60, 62, 64–68, 71–77, 79–88, 92, 94, 96–103, 109–116, 118–120, 122, 123, 125, 128, 129, 132, 135, 137, 139, 141, 145, 148, 152–158, 160, 162, 166, 167, 168, 169

 

 

 


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