Hesiodic mythology and Greek cosmogony

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Greek Cosmogony according to Hesiod

The cosmogony Greek, branch of the mythology Greek explanation of the creation of the universe, was greatly described by Hesiod. Peasant boeotian de la fin du viii^e century BC, contemporary with the first wave of colonization which pushed the Greeks to seek new lands, Hesiod of Ascra, poet, theologian, prophet, is located at the junction of two worlds and two systems of thought.

Over there Theogony which prolongs a poetic and religious condition more archaic than the epic of Homer, Hesiod is the privileged witness of a form of mythical thought which obeys a type of logic different from ours. Through The Works and the Days, au contraire, il fait figure de précurseur de Solon : le théologien qui raconte l’avènement de la souveraineté de Zeus et développe le myth races.