Abstract

Gaia and Human Endeavour in Hesiodic Theogony. In Hesiodic Theogony, the gap between gods and men after Prometheus’ punishment makes human endeavour depend on gods, but the poetic structure in divine genealogies, the treatment of time and the superposition of the different aspects of gaia which is both divine figure and cosmic element, earth, one of the world areas as well as material, must be considered too. The way Hecate is depicted connecting divine and human and the Typhoeus episod where thunderbolt and metallurgic fire are paralleled poetically make human beings nearer to gods despite divine will ever ruling.

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