Theogony

Theogony, the name given in ancient Greece to a class of poems recounting the genealogy of the gods. Musæus (q.v.) is said to have written the earliest Theogony; but his work, as well as the Theogonies of Orpheus (q.v.) and others, have perished, that of Hesiod (q.v.) being the only one that has come down to us. The story of Creation (q.v.) is on the other hand called COSMOGONY.