 This work gives an account of the origin of the world and the birth of the gods, explaining the whole order of nature in a series of genealogies, for every part of physical as well as moral nature there appears personified in the character of a distinct...  A classical dictionary of biography [&c.]. - Էջ 318sir William Smith - 1858Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1849 - 714 էջ
...the articles on mythology, we make two very brief extracts, bearing on this matter. ' The Theogony gives an account of the origin of the world and the...series of genealogies, for every part of physical (material) as well as moral nature, there appears personified, in the character of a distinct being.... | |
 | William Smith - 1850 - 1076 էջ
...the names of metals (109-201); and. 3. A description of winter (604-556). 2. Oeojow'o, a TAeogany, was not considered by Hesiod's countrymen to be a...genealogies, for every part of physical as well as mural nature tin-re appears personified in the character of a distinct being. The whole concludes with... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1853 - 608 էջ
...production of the same poet as the "Epya, and that it probably belongs to a later date. The " Theogony" gives an account of the origin of the world and the...an account of some of the most illustrious heroes, whereby the poem enters into some kind of connection with the Homeric epics. The whole poem may be... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1853 - 610 էջ
...production of the same poet as the "Ep-yo, and that it probably belongs to a later date. The " Theogony" gives an account of the origin of the world and the...an account of some of the most illustrious heroes, whereby the poem enters into some kind of connection with the Homeric epics. The whole poem may be... | |
 | Thomas Street Millington - 1863 - 726 էջ
...golden, the silver, the brazen, and the iron—and a poetic description of winter. 2.—Theogonia, an account of the origin of the world, and the birth of the gods, concluding with the history of some of the most illustrious heroes. The theory of heaven here introduced,... | |
 | William Smith - 1871 - 1074 էջ
...countrymen to be a genuine production of the poet. This work gives an account of the origin of the world aud the birth of the gods, explaining the whole order...personified in the character of a distinct being. The whole cernejudos with an account of some or the -most illustrious heroes. 3. 'Hoioi or i/atai ficyú/.aí,... | |
 | 1876 - 146 էջ
...born at Ascra, in Boeotia, Lived about the same time as Homer. Principal works are the " Theogony," an account of the origin of the world and the birth of the gods; the "Works and Days," in which he lays down moral maxims for the regulation of our daily conduct. TRAGIC.... | |
 | William Smith - 1877 - 536 էջ
...his Works and Days, containing ethical, political, and economical precepts, and a Theogony, giving an account of the origin of the world and the birth of the gods. HESlONB (-es), daughter of Laomedon, king of Troy, was chained by her father to a rock, in order to... | |
 | William Smith - 1878 - 1084 էջ
...]'°et This work gives an account of the с rigin of the world and the birth of the gods, explaiuiug- the whole order of nature in a series of genealogies,...character of a distinct being. The whole concludes with monts as the word» earth, erde), the goddess of the earth among the ancient Oermans HERULI or KBULI,... | |
 | Robert F. Pennell - 1886 - 178 էջ
...born at Ascra, in Boeotia. Lived about the same time as Homer. Principal works are the "Theogony," an account of the origin of the world and the birth of the gods ; the " Works and Days," in which he lays down moral maxims for the regulation of our daily conduct.... | |
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