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Hesiod’s Theogony: Chaos, Chronos and Eros
Ancient Civilization, Ancient Cosmology, Essays, MythologyOne of the nice things that you found as you studied more advanced civilizations, as you got further into the first millennium BCE, you had better material and source texts to work with. You no longer had to rely on texts and tablets that…

The Theogony of Hesiod: Order (Cronos) from Chaos
Ancient Civilization, Ancient Cosmology, Mythology
One of the nice things that you found as you studied more advanced civilizations, as you got further into the first millennium BCE, you had better material and source texts to work with. You no longer had to rely on texts and tablets that…

Creation Mythology in Antiquity: Order out of Chaos
Ancient Civilization, Ancient Cosmology, MythologyIntroduction: Creation Myths in Antiquity
Any cursory study of Egyptian and Sumer-Babylonian creation mythology yielded parallels and similarities, but was much less clear and open to debate was whether or not these similarities, these mythemes…