Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Herodotus considered the "Theogony" of Hesiod to be the only coherent account of Greek theology to survive from early times. A veritable pageant of the divine world, it recounts, in rich complexity, the rise of the primeval gods and the universe from Chaos, the triumph of Zeus, and the history-making interaction of gods and mortals. In closing the poet calls upon the Muses to sing of the "tribe of women," an invocation that links this work to the "Catalogue of Women" (a poem preserved only in part), which focuses on the illustrious heroines of mythology and their children in successive generations to track the descent of the Greek people. This volume also includes the 33 Hymns addressed to individual gods that were traditionally ascribed to Homer.