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Theogony
The Theogony is a Greek poem by Hesiod, composed around 700 BCE, that tells the origin and genealogy of the gods. Its central story, in which Ouranos is overthrown by Kronos and Kronos by Zeus, closely parallels the Hurro-Hittite Kumarbi cycle, a sign that Near Eastern myths reached early Greece.
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