
Episode 8: Before Orthodoxy (Hesiod's Theogony)
Literature and History
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Gaia, the Earth, and Uranos, the Heavens
The children of Gaia, the earth, and Uranos, the heavens, increased in number. There were eleven of them to begin with, strong boys and beautiful gold-crowned girls. But the twelfth Titan born to Gaia was not like the others. He was a wicked being, and his deeds would prove to be terrible. And this is what she said, I'm quoting from the Stanley Lombardo translation published by Hackett Classics in 1993.
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