Hesiod names Heaven and Earth’s twelve children without calling them anything at all. The name arrives later, and as an insult. The children had turned on their father, and those sons, Hesiod says, ‘great... Read More →
Hesiod gives Strife fourteen children and no husband. In the Theogony (in Hugh G. Evelyn-White’s translation), “abhorred Strife bore painful Toil and Forgetfulness and Famine and tearful Sorrows”, and then, sharing a single line... Read More →
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