Cosmologies, like Hesiod's Theogony , are accounts of the beginnings of the universe, and they generally also, through the course of telling the universe’s origins, tell of the universe’s workings: i.e., why the sun rises every day. Cosmology most likely antedates the written language...
As I discussed in my last post, Hesiod's Eros (Love) can be thought of as a motive force that brings entities to come together (much like gravity) and to create. Khaos felt Eros , the urge or internal force that made it seek to give birth. And what did it first give birth to? Erebos , or Darkness...
This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: The Epistemology of Divine Poetry . Even though Hesiod pleads "for the Muses told me so" as his chief intellectual justification, a careful reader can glean attempts at non-divine inference in...
This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: Introducing the Theogony . A traditional synopsis of the Theogony might go as follows. The gods Khaos , Gaia , and Eros "come to be". Then Khaos gives birth to Nyx and Erebos , who in turn give...