Hesiod's Theogony

The end of Hesiod's Theogony is an overwhelming catalog of births. It's easy to giggle a little at the sheer spectacle of such prolific love-making, says John Sutter. But in the long, loosely organized list of begats that wraps up the Theogony, Hesiod is attempting to inscribe into his poem all the major figures of Greek narrative and religion,. he writes.