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(ll. 26-28) `Shepherds of the
wilderness, wretched things of shame, mere bellies, we
know how to speak many false things as though they were
true; but we know, when we will, to utter true
things.' (ll. 29-35) So said the
ready-voiced daughters of great Zeus, and they plucked
and gave me a rod, a shoot of sturdy laurel, a marvellous
thing, and breathed into me a divine voice to celebrate
things that shall be and things there were aforetime; and
they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that
are eternally, but ever to sing of themselves both first
and last. But why all this about oak or stone? (2)
(ll. 36-52) Come thou, let us
begin with the Muses who gladden the great spirit of
their father Zeus in Olympus with their songs, telling of
things that are and that shall be and that were aforetime
with consenting voice. Unwearying flows the sweet sound
from their lips, and the house of their father Zeus the
loud-thunderer is glad at the lily-like voice of the
goddesses as it spread abroad, and the peaks of snowy
Olympus resound, and the homes of the immortals. And they
uttering their immortal voice, celebrate in song first of
all the reverend race of the gods from the beginning,
those whom Earth and wide Heaven begot, and the gods
sprung of these, givers of good things. Then, next, the
goddesses sing of Zeus, the father of gods and men, as
they begin and end their strain, how much he is the most
excellent among the gods and supreme in power. And again,
they chant the race of men and strong giants, and gladden
the heart of Zeus within Olympus, -- the Olympian Muses,
daughters of Zeus the aegis-holder. (ll. 53-74) Them in Pieria did
Mnemosyne (Memory), who reigns over the hills of
Eleuther, bear of union with the father, the son of
Cronos, a forgetting of ills and a rest from sorrow. For
nine nights did wise Zeus lie with her, entering her holy
bed remote from the immortals. And when a year was passed
and the seasons came round as the months waned, and many
days were accomplished, she bare nine daughters, all of
one mind, whose hearts are set upon song and their spirit
free from care, a little way from the topmost peak of
snowy Olympus. There are their bright dancing-places and
beautiful homes, and beside them the Graces and Himerus
(Desire) live in delight. And they, uttering through
their lips a lovely voice, sing the
laws of all and the goodly ways of the immortals,
uttering their lovely voice. Then went they to Olympus,
delighting in their sweet voice, with heavenly song, and
the dark earth resounded about them as they chanted, and
a lovely sound rose up beneath their feet as they went to
their father. And he was reigning in heaven,
himself holding the lightning and glowing thunderbolt,
when he had overcome by might his father Cronos; and he
distributed fairly to the immortals their portions and
declared their privileges. (ll. 75-103) These things, then,
the Muses sang who dwell on Olympus, nine daughters
begotten by great Zeus, Cleio and Euterpe, Thaleia,
Melpomene and Terpsichore, and Erato and Polyhymnia and
Urania and Calliope (3), who is the chiefest of them all,
for she attends on worshipful princes: whomsoever of
heaven-nourished princes the daughters of great Zeus
honour, and behold him at his birth, they pour sweet dew
upon his tongue, and from his lips flow gracious words.
All the people look towards him while he settles causes
with true judgements: and he, speaking surely, would soon
make wise end even of a great quarrel; for therefore are
there princes wise in heart, because when the people are
being misguided in their assembly, they set right the
matter again with ease, persuading them with gentle
words. And when he passes through a gathering, they greet
him as a god with gentle reverence, and he is conspicuous
amongst the assembled: such is the holy gift of the Muses
to men. For it is through the Muses and far-shooting
Apollo that there are singers and harpers upon the earth;
but princes are of Zeus, and happy is he whom the Muses
love: sweet flows speech from his mouth. For though a man
have sorrow and grief in his newly-troubled soul and live
in dread because his heart is distressed, yet, when a
singer, the servant of the Muses, chants the glorious
deeds of men of old and the blessed gods who inhabit
Olympus, at once he forgets his heaviness and remembers
not his sorrows at all; but the gifts of the goddesses
soon turn him away from these. (ll. 104-115) Hail, children of
Zeus! Grant lovely song and celebrate the holy race of
the deathless gods who are for ever, those that were born
of Earth and starry Heaven and gloomy Night and them that
briny Sea did rear. Tell how at the first gods and earth
came to be, and rivers, and the boundless sea with its
raging swell, and the gleaming stars, and the wide heaven
above, and the gods who were born of them, givers of good
things, and how they divided their wealth, and how they
shared their honours amongst them, and also how at the
first they took many-folded Olympus. These things declare
to me from the beginning, ye Muses who dwell in the house
of Olympus, and tell me which of them first came to
be. (ll. 116-138) Verily at the first
Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the
ever-sure foundations of all (4) the deathless ones who
hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the
depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest
among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and
overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all
men within them. From Chaos came forth Erebus and black
Night; but of Night were born Aether (5) and Day, whom
she conceived and bare from union in love with Erebus.
And Earth first bare starry Heaven, equal to herself, to
cover her on every side, and to be an ever-sure
abiding-place for the blessed gods. And she brought forth
long Hills, graceful haunts of the goddess-Nymphs who
dwell amongst the glens of the hills. She bare also the
fruitless deep with his raging swell, Pontus, without
sweet union of love. But afterwards she lay with Heaven
and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and
Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and
Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.
After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most
terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty
sire. (ll. 139-146) And again, she bare
the Cyclopes, overbearing in spirit, Brontes, and
Steropes and stubborn-hearted Arges (6), who gave Zeus
the thunder and made the thunderbolt: in all else they
were like the gods, but one eye only was set in the midst
of their fore-heads. And they were surnamed Cyclopes
(Orb-eyed) because one orbed eye was set in their
foreheads. Strength and might and craft were in their
works. (ll. 147-163) And again, three
other sons were born of Earth and Heaven, great and
doughty beyond telling, Cottus and Briareos and Gyes,
presumptuous children. From their shoulders sprang an
hundred arms, not to be approached, and each had fifty
heads upon his shoulders on their strong limbs, and
irresistible was the stubborn strength that was in their
great forms. For of all the children that were born of
Earth and Heaven, these were the most terrible, and they
were hated by their own father from the first.
And he used to hide them all away
in a secret place of Earth so soon as each was born, and
would not suffer them to come up into the light: and
Heaven rejoiced in his evil doing. But vast Earth groaned
within, being straitened, and she made the element of
grey flint and shaped a great sickle, and told her plan
to her dear sons. And she spoke, cheering them, while she
was vexed in her dear heart: (ll. 164-166) `My children, gotten
of a sinful father, if you will obey me, we should punish
the vile outrage of your father; for he first thought of
doing shameful things.' (ll. 167-169) So she said; but
fear seized them all, and none of them uttered a word.
But great Cronos the wily took courage and answered his
dear mother: (ll. 170-172) `Mother, I will
undertake to do this deed, for I reverence not our father
of evil name, for he first thought of doing shameful
things.' (ll. 173-175) So he said: and vast
Earth rejoiced greatly in spirit, and set and hid him in
an ambush, and put in his hands a jagged sickle, and
revealed to him the whole plot. (ll. 176-206) And Heaven came,
bringing on night and longing for love, and he lay about
Earth spreading himself full upon her (7). Then the son
from his ambush stretched forth his left hand and in his
right took the great long sickle with jagged teeth, and
swiftly lopped off his own father's members and cast them
away to fall behind him. And not vainly did they fall
from his hand; for all the bloody drops that gushed forth
Earth received, and as the seasons moved round she bare
the strong Erinyes and the great Giants with gleaming
armour, holding long spears in their hands and the Nymphs
whom they call Meliae (8) all over the boundless earth.
And so soon as he had cut off the members with flint and
cast them from the land into the surging sea, they were
swept away over the main a long time: and a white foam
spread around them from the immortal flesh, and in it
there grew a maiden. First she drew near holy Cythera,
and from there, afterwards, she came to sea-girt Cyprus,
and came forth an awful and lovely goddess, and grass
grew up about her beneath her shapely feet. Her gods and
men call Aphrodite, and the foam-born goddess and
rich-crowned Cytherea, because she grew amid the foam,
and Cytherea because she reached Cythera, and Cyprogenes
because she was born in billowy Cyprus, and Philommedes
(9) because sprang from the members. And with her went
Eros, and comely Desire followed her at her birth at the
first and as she went into the assembly of the gods. This
honour she has from the beginning, and this is the
portion allotted to her amongst men and undying gods, --
the whisperings of maidens and smiles and deceits with
sweet delight and love and graciousness. (ll. 207-210) But these sons whom
be begot himself great Heaven used to call Titans
(Strainers) in reproach, for he said that they strained
and did presumptuously a fearful deed, and that vengeance
for it would come afterwards. (ll. 211-225) And Night bare
hateful Doom and black Fate and Death, and she bare Sleep
and the tribe of Dreams. And again the goddess murky
Night, though she lay with none, bare Blame and painful
Woe, and the Hesperides who guard the rich, golden apples
and the trees bearing fruit beyond glorious Ocean. Also
she bare the Destinies and ruthless avenging Fates,
Clotho and Lachesis and Atropos (10), who give men at
their birth both evil and good to have, and they pursue
the transgressions of men and of gods: and these
goddesses never cease from their dread anger until they
punish the sinner with a sore penalty. Also deadly Night
bare Nemesis (Indignation) to afflict mortal men, and
after her, Deceit and Friendship and hateful Age and
hard-hearted Strife. (ll. 226-232) But abhorred Strife
bare painful Toil and Forgetfulness and Famine and
tearful Sorrows, Fightings also, Battles, Murders,
Manslaughters, Quarrels, Lying Words, Disputes,
Lawlessness and Ruin, all of one nature, and Oath who
most troubles men upon earth when anyone wilfully swears
a false oath. (ll. 233-239) And Sea begat
Nereus, the eldest of his children, who is true and lies
not: and men call him the Old Man because he is trusty
and gentle and does not forget the laws of righteousness,
but thinks just and kindly thoughts. And yet again he got
great Thaumas and proud Phoreys, being mated with Earth,
and fair-cheeked Ceto and Eurybia who has a heart of
flint within her. (ll. 240-264) And of Nereus and
rich-haired Doris, daughter of Ocean the perfect river,
were born children (11), passing lovely amongst
goddesses, Ploto, Eucrante, Sao, and Amphitrite, and
Eudora, and Thetis, Galene and Glauce, Cymothoe, Speo,
Thoe and lovely Halie, and Pasithea, and Erato, and
rosy-armed Eunice, and gracious Melite, and Eulimene, and
Agaue, Doto, Proto, Pherusa, and Dynamene, and Nisaea,
and Actaea, and Protomedea, Doris, Panopea, and comely
Galatea, and lovely Hippothoe, and rosy-armed Hipponoe,
and Cymodoce who with Cymatolege (12) and Amphitrite
easily calms the waves upon the misty sea and the blasts
of raging winds, and Cymo, and Eione, and rich-crowned
Alimede, and Glauconome, fond of laughter, and
Pontoporea, Leagore, Euagore, and Laomedea, and Polynoe,
and Autonoe, and Lysianassa, and Euarne, lovely of shape
and without blemish of form, and Psamathe of charming
figure and divine Menippe, Neso, Eupompe, Themisto,
Pronoe, and Nemertes (13) who has the nature of her
deathless father. These fifty daughters sprang from
blameless Nereus, skilled in excellent crafts.
(ll. 265-269) And Thaumas wedded
Electra the daughter of deep- flowing Ocean, and she bare
him swift Iris and the long-haired Harpies, Aello
(Storm-swift) and Ocypetes (Swift-flier) who on their
swift wings keep pace with the blasts of the winds and
the birds; for quick as time they dart along. (ll 270-294) And again, Ceto bare
to Phoreys the fair-cheeked Graiae, sisters grey from
their birth: and both deathless gods and men who walk on
earth call them Graiae, Pemphredo well-clad, and
saffron-robed Enyo, and the Gorgons who dwell beyond
glorious Ocean in the frontier land towards Night where
are the clear- voiced Hesperides, Sthenno, and Euryale,
and Medusa who suffered a woeful fate: she was mortal,
but the two were undying and grew not old. With her lay
the Dark-haired One (14) in a soft meadow amid spring
flowers. And when Perseus cut off her head, there sprang
forth great Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus who is so
called because he was born near the springs (pegae) of
Ocean; and that other, because he held a golden blade
(aor) in his hands. Now Pegasus flew away and left the
earth, the mother of flocks, and came to the deathless
gods: and he dwells in the house of Zeus and brings to
wise Zeus the thunder and lightning. But Chrysaor was
joined in love to Callirrhoe, the daughter of glorious
Ocean, and begot three-headed Geryones. Him mighty
Heracles slew in sea-girt Erythea by his shambling oxen
on that day when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy
Tiryns, and had crossed the ford of Ocean and killed
Orthus and Eurytion the herdsman in the dim stead out
beyond glorious Ocean. (ll. 295-305) And in a hollow cave
she bare another monster, irresistible, in no wise like
either to mortal men or to the undying gods, even the
goddess fierce Echidna who is half a nymph with glancing
eyes and fair cheeks, and half again a huge snake, great
and awful, with speckled skin, eating raw flesh beneath
the secret parts of the holy earth. And there she has a
cave deep down under a hollow rock far from the deathless
gods and mortal men. There, then, did the gods appoint
her a glorious house to dwell in: and she keeps guard in
Arima beneath the earth, grim Echidna, a nymph who dies
not nor grows old all her days. (ll. 306-332) Men say that Typhaon
the terrible, outrageous and lawless, was joined in love
to her, the maid with glancing eyes. So she conceived and
brought forth fierce offspring; first she bare Orthus the
hound of Geryones, and then again she bare a second, a
monster not to be overcome and that may not be described,
Cerberus who eats raw flesh, the brazen-voiced hound of
Hades, fifty-headed, relentless and strong. And again she
bore a third, the evil-minded Hydra of Lerna, whom the
goddess, white-armed Hera nourished, being angry beyond
measure with the mighty Heracles. And her Heracles, the
son of Zeus, of the house of Amphitryon, together with
warlike Iolaus, destroyed with the unpitying sword
through the plans of Athene the spoil-driver. She was the
mother of Chimaera who breathed raging fire, a creature
fearful, great, swift-footed and strong, who had three
heads, one of a grim-eyed lion; in her hinderpart, a
dragon; and in her middle, a goat, breathing forth a
fearful blast of blazing fire. Her did Pegasus and noble
Bellerophon slay; but Echidna was subject in love to
Orthus and brought forth the deadly Sphinx which
destroyed the Cadmeans, and the Nemean lion, which Hera,
the good wife of Zeus, brought up and made to haunt the
hills of Nemea, a plague to men. There he preyed upon the
tribes of her own people and had power over Tretus of
Nemea and Apesas: yet the strength of stout Heracles
overcame him. (ll. 333-336) And Ceto was joined
in love to Phorcys and bare her youngest, the awful snake
who guards the apples all of gold in the secret places of
the dark earth at its great bounds. This is the offspring
of Ceto and Phoreys. (ll. 334-345) And Tethys bare to
Ocean eddying rivers, Nilus, and Alpheus, and
deep-swirling Eridanus, Strymon, and Meander, and the
fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus, and the
silver eddies of Achelous, Nessus, and Rhodius,
Haliacmon, and Heptaporus, Granicus, and Aesepus, and
holy Simois, and Peneus, and Hermus, and Caicus fair
stream, and great Sangarius, Ladon, Parthenius, Euenus,
Ardescus, and divine Scamander. (ll. 346-370) Also she
brought forth a holy company of daughters (15) who with
the lord Apollo and the Rivers have youths in their
keeping -- to this charge Zeus appointed them -- Peitho,
and Admete, and Ianthe, and Electra, and Doris, and
Prymno, and Urania divine in form, Hippo, Clymene,
Rhodea, and Callirrhoe, Zeuxo and Clytie, and Idyia, and
Pasithoe, Plexaura, and Galaxaura, and lovely Dione,
Melobosis and Thoe and handsome Polydora, Cerceis lovely
of form, and soft eyed Pluto, Perseis, Ianeira, Acaste,
Xanthe, Petraea the fair, Menestho, and Europa, Metis,
and Eurynome, and Telesto saffron-clad, Chryseis and Asia
and charming Calypso, Eudora, and Tyche, Amphirho, and
Ocyrrhoe, and Styx who is the chiefest of them all. These
are the eldest daughters that sprang from Ocean and
Tethys; but there are many besides. For there are three
thousand neat-ankled daughters of Ocean who are dispersed
far and wide, and in every place alike serve the earth
and the deep waters, children who are glorious among
goddesses. And as many other rivers are there, babbling
as they flow, sons of Ocean, whom queenly Tethys bare,
but their names it is hard for a mortal man to tell, but
people know those by which they severally dwell.
(ll. 371-374) And Theia was
subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helius (Sun)
and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shines upon
all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who
live in the wide heaven. (ll. 375-377) And Eurybia, bright
goddess, was joined in love to Crius and bare great
Astraeus, and Pallas, and Perses who also was eminent
among all men in wisdom. (ll. 378-382) And Eos bare to
Astraeus the strong-hearted winds, brightening Zephyrus,
and Boreas, headlong in his course, and Notus, -- a
goddess mating in love with a god. And after these
Erigenia (16) bare the star Eosphorus (Dawn-bringer), and
the gleaming stars with which heaven is crowned.
(ll. 383-403) And Styx the
daughter of Ocean was joined to Pallas and bare Zelus
(Emulation) and trim-ankled Nike (Victory) in the house.
Also she brought forth Cratos (Strength) and Bia (Force),
wonderful children. These have no house apart from Zeus,
nor any dwelling nor path except that wherein God leads
them, but they dwell always with Zeus the loud-thunderer.
For so did Styx the deathless daughter of Ocean plan on
that day when the Olympian Lightener
called all the deathless gods to great Olympus, and said
that whosoever of the gods would fight with him against
the Titans, he would not cast him out from his rights,
but each should have the office which he had before
amongst the deathless gods. And he declared that he who
was without office and rights as is just. So deathless
Styx came first to Olympus with her children through the
wit of her dear father. And Zeus honoured her, and gave
her very great gifts, for her he appointed to be the
great oath of the gods, and her children to live with him
always. And as he promised, so he performed fully unto
them all. But he himself mightily reigns and
rules. (ll. 404-452) Again, Phoebe came
to the desired embrace of Coeus. Then the goddess through the love
of the god conceived and brought forth dark-gowned Leto,
always mild, kind to men and to the deathless gods, mild
from the beginning, gentlest in all Olympus. Also she
bare Asteria of happy name, whom Perses once led to his
great house to be called his dear wife. And she conceived
and bare Hecate whom Zeus the son of Cronos honoured
above all. He gave her splendid gifts, to have a share of
the earth and the unfruitful sea. She received honour
also in starry heaven, and is honoured exceedingly by the
deathless gods. For to this day, whenever any one of men
on earth offers rich sacrifices and prays for favour
according to custom, he calls upon Hecate. Great honour
comes full easily to him whose prayers the goddess
receives favourably, and she bestows wealth upon him; for
the power surely is with her. For as many as were born of
Earth and Ocean amongst all these she has her due
portion. The son of Cronos did her no wrong nor took
anything away of all that was her portion among the
former Titan gods: but she holds, as the division was at
the first from the beginning, privilege both in earth,
and in heaven, and in sea. Also, because she is an only
child, the goddess receives not less honour, but much
more still, for Zeus honours her. Whom she will she
greatly aids and advances: she sits by worshipful kings
in judgement, and in the assembly whom she will is
distinguished among the people. And when men arm
themselves for the battle that destroys men, then the
goddess is at hand to give victory and grant glory
readily to whom she will. Good is she also when men
contend at the games, for there too the goddess is with
them and profits them: and he who by might and strength
gets the victory wins the rich prize easily with joy, and
brings glory to his parents. And she is good to stand by
horsemen, whom she will: and to those whose business is
in the grey discomfortable sea, and who pray to Hecate
and the loud-crashing Earth-Shaker, easily the glorious
goddess gives great catch, and easily she takes it away
as soon as seen, if so she will. She is good in the byre
with Hermes to increase the stock. The droves of kine and
wide herds of goats and flocks of fleecy sheep, if she
will, she increases from a few, or makes many to be less.
So, then. albeit her mother's only child (17), she is
honoured amongst all the deathless gods. And the son of
Cronos made her a nurse of the young who after that day
saw with their eyes the light of all-seeing Dawn. So from
the beginning she is a nurse of the young, and these are
her honours. (ll. 453-491) But Rhea was subject
in love to Cronos and bare splendid children, Hestia
(18), Demeter, and gold-shod Hera and strong Hades,
pitiless in heart, who dwells under the earth, and the
loud-crashing Earth-Shaker, and wise Zeus, father of gods
and men, by whose thunder the wide earth is shaken. These
great Cronos swallowed as each came forth from the womb
to his mother's knees with this intent, that no other of
the proud sons of Heaven should hold the kingly office
amongst the deathless gods. For he learned from Earth and
starry Heaven that he was destined to be overcome by his
own son, strong though he was, through the contriving of
great Zeus (19). Therefore he kept no blind outlook, but
watched and swallowed down his children: and unceasing
grief seized Rhea. But when she was about to bear Zeus,
the father of gods and men, then she besought her own
dear parents, Earth and starry Heaven, to devise some
plan with her that the birth of her dear child might be
concealed, and that retribution might overtake great,
crafty Cronos for his own father and also for the
children whom he had swallowed down. And they readily
heard and obeyed their dear daughter, and told her all
that was destined to happen touching Cronos the king and
his stout-hearted son. So they sent her to Lyetus, to the
rich land of Crete, when she was ready to bear great
Zeus, the youngest of her children. Him did vast Earth
receive from Rhea in wide Crete to nourish and to bring
up. Thither came Earth carrying him swiftly through the
black night to Lyctus first, and took him in her arms and
hid him in a remote cave beneath the secret places of the
holy earth on thick-wooded Mount Aegeum; but to the
mightily ruling son of Heaven, the earlier king of the
gods, she gave a great stone wrapped in swaddling
clothes. Then he took it in his hands and thrust it down
into his belly: wretch! he knew not in his heart that in
place of the stone his son was left behind, unconquered
and untroubled, and that he was soon to overcome him by
force and might and drive him from his honours, himself
to reign over the deathless gods. (ll. 492-506) After that, the
strength and glorious limbs of the prince increased
quickly, and as the years rolled on, great Cronos the
wily was beguiled by the deep suggestions of Earth, and
brought up again his offspring, vanquished by the arts
and might of his own son, and he vomited up first the
stone which he had swallowed last. And Zeus set it fast
in the wide-pathed earth at goodly Pytho under the glens
of Parnassus, to be a sign thenceforth and a marvel to
mortal men (20). And he set free from their deadly bonds
the brothers of his father, sons of Heaven whom his
father in his foolishness had bound. And they remembered
to be grateful to him for his kindness, and gave him
thunder and the glowing thunderbolt and lightening: for
before that, huge Earth had hidden these. In them he
trusts and rules over mortals and immortals. (ll. 507-543) Now Iapetus took to
wife the neat-ankled mad Clymene,
daughter of Ocean, and went up with her into one bed. And
she bare him a stout-hearted son, Atlas: also she bare
very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of
various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus who from
the first was a mischief to men who eat bread; for it was
he who first took of Zeus the woman, the maiden whom he
had formed. But Menoetius was outrageous, and far-seeing
Zeus struck him with a lurid thunderbolt and sent him
down to Erebus because of his mad presumption and
exceeding pride. And Atlas through hard constraint
upholds the wide heaven with unwearying head and arms,
standing at the borders of the earth before the
clear-voiced Hesperides; for this lot wise Zeus assigned
to him. And ready- witted Prometheus he bound with
inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft
through his middle, and set on him a long- winged eagle,
which used to eat his immortal liver; but by night the
liver grew as much again everyway as the long-winged bird
devoured in the whole day. That bird Heracles, the
valiant son of shapely-ankled Alcmene, slew; and
delivered the son of Iapetus from the cruel plague, and
released him from his affliction -- not without the will
of Olympian Zeus who reigns on high, that the glory of
Heracles the Theban-born might be yet greater than it was
before over the plenteous earth. This, then, he regarded,
and honoured his famous son; though he was angry, he
ceased from the wrath which he had before because
Prometheus matched himself in wit with the almighty son
of Cronos. For when the gods and mortal men had a dispute
at Mecone, even then Prometheus was forward to cut up a
great ox and set portions before them, trying to befool
the mind of Zeus. Before the rest he set flesh and inner
parts thick with fat upon the hide, covering them with an
ox paunch; but for Zeus he put the white bones dressed up
with cunning art and covered with shining fat. Then the
father of men and of gods said to him: (ll. 543-544) `Son of Iapetus,
most glorious of all lords, good sir, how unfairly you
have divided the portions!' (ll. 545-547) So said Zeus whose
wisdom is everlasting, rebuking him. But wily Prometheus
answered him, smiling softly and not forgetting his
cunning trick: (ll. 548-558) `Zeus, most glorious
and greatest of the eternal gods, take which ever of
these portions your heart within you bids.' So he said,
thinking trickery. But Zeus, whose wisdom is everlasting,
saw and failed not to perceive the trick, and in his
heart he thought mischief against mortal men which also
was to be fulfilled. With both hands he took up the white
fat and was angry at heart, and wrath came to his spirit
when he saw the white ox-bones craftily tricked out: and
because of this the tribes of men upon earth burn white
bones to the deathless gods upon fragrant altars. But
Zeus who drives the clouds was greatly vexed and said to
him: (ll. 559-560) `Son of Iapetus,
clever above all! So, sir, you have not yet forgotten
your cunning arts!' (ll. 561-584) So spake Zeus in
anger, whose wisdom is everlasting; and from that time he
was always mindful of the trick, and would not give the
power of unwearying fire to the Melian (21) race of
mortal men who live on the earth. But the noble son of
Iapetus outwitted him and stole the far-seen gleam of
unwearying fire in a hollow fennel stalk. And Zeus who
thunders on high was stung in spirit, and his dear heart
was angered when he saw amongst men the far-seen ray of
fire. Forthwith he made an evil thing for men as the
price of fire; for the very famous Limping God formed of
earth the likeness of a shy maiden as the son of Cronos
willed. And the goddess bright-eyed Athene girded and
clothed her with silvery raiment, and down from her head
she spread with her hands a broidered veil, a wonder to
see; and she, Pallas Athene, put about her head lovely
garlands, flowers of new-grown herbs. Also she put upon
her head a crown of gold which the very famous Limping
God made himself and worked with his own hands as a
favour to Zeus his father. On it was much curious work,
wonderful to see; for of the many creatures which the
land and sea rear up, he put most upon it, wonderful
things, like living beings with voices: and great beauty
shone out from it. (ll. 585-589) But when he had made
the beautiful evil to be the price for the blessing, he
brought her out, delighting in the finery which the
bright-eyed daughter of a mighty father had given her, to
the place where the other gods and men were. And wonder
took hold of the deathless gods and mortal men when they
saw that which was sheer guile, not to be withstood by
men. (ll. 590-612) For from her is the
race of women and female kind: of her is the deadly race
and tribe of women who live amongst mortal men to their
great trouble, no helpmeets in hateful poverty, but only
in wealth. And as in thatched hives bees feed the drones
whose nature is to do mischief -- by day and throughout
the day until the sun goes down the bees are busy and lay
the white combs, while the drones stay at home in the
covered skeps and reap the toil of others into their own
bellies -- even so Zeus who thunders on high made women
to be an evil to mortal men, with a nature to do evil.
And he gave them a second evil to be the price for the
good they had: whoever avoids marriage and the sorrows
that women cause, and will not wed, reaches deadly old
age without anyone to tend his years, and though he at
least has no lack of livelihood while he lives, yet, when
he is dead, his kinsfolk divide his possessions amongst
them. And as for the man who chooses the lot of marriage
and takes a good wife suited to his mind, evil
continually contends with good; for whoever happens to
have mischievous children, lives always with unceasing
grief in his spirit and heart within him; and this evil
cannot be healed. (ll. 613-616) So it is not
possible to deceive or go beyond the will of Zeus; for
not even the son of Iapetus, kindly Prometheus, escaped
his heavy anger, but of necessity strong bands confined
him, although he knew many a wile. (ll. 617-643) But when first their
father was vexed in his heart with Obriareus and Cottus
and Gyes, he bound them in cruel bonds, because he was
jealous of their exceeding manhood and comeliness and
great size: and he made them live beneath the wide-pathed
earth, where they were afflicted, being set to dwell
under the ground, at the end of the earth, at its great
borders, in bitter anguish for a long time and with great
grief at heart. But the son of Cronos and the other
deathless gods whom rich-haired Rhea bare from union with
Cronos, brought them up again to the light at Earth's
advising. For she herself recounted all things to the
gods fully, how that with these they would gain victory
and a glorious cause to vaunt themselves. For the Titan
gods and as many as sprang from Cronos had long been
fighting together in stubborn war with heart-grieving
toil, the lordly Titans from high Othyrs, but the gods,
givers of good, whom rich-haired Rhea bare in union with
Cronos, from Olympus. So they, with bitter wrath, were
fighting continually with one another at that time for
ten full years, and the hard strife had no close or end
for either side, and the issue of the war hung evenly
balanced. But when he had provided those three with all
things fitting, nectar and ambrosia which the gods
themselves eat, and when their proud spirit revived
within them all after they had fed on nectar and
delicious ambrosia, then it was that the father of men
and gods spoke amongst them: (ll. 644-653) `Hear me, bright
children of Earth and Heaven, that I may say what my
heart within me bids. A long while now have we, who are
sprung from Cronos and the Titan gods, fought with each
other every day to get victory and to prevail. But do you
show your great might and unconquerable strength, and
face the Titans in bitter strife; for remember our
friendly kindness, and from what sufferings you are come
back to the light from your cruel bondage under misty
gloom through our counsels.' (ll. 654-663) So he said. And
blameless Cottus answered him again: `Divine one, you
speak that which we know well: nay, even of ourselves we
know that your wisdom and understanding is exceeding, and
that you became a defender of the deathless ones from
chill doom. And through your devising we are come back
again from the murky gloom and from our merciless bonds,
enjoying what we looked not for, O lord, son of Cronos.
And so now with fixed purpose and deliberate counsel we
will aid your power in dreadful strife and will fight
against the Titans in hard battle.' (ll. 664-686) So he said: and the
gods, givers of good things, applauded when they heard
his word, and their spirit longed for war even more than
before, and they all, both male and female, stirred up
hated battle that day, the Titan gods, and all that were
born of Cronos together with those dread, mighty ones of
overwhelming strength whom Zeus brought up to the light
from Erebus beneath the earth. An hundred arms sprang
from the shoulders of all alike, and each had fifty heads
growing upon his shoulders upon stout limbs. These, then,
stood against the Titans in grim strife, holding huge
rocks in their strong hands. And on the other part the
Titans eagerly strengthened their ranks, and both sides
at one time showed the work of their hands and their
might. The boundless sea rang terribly around, and the
earth crashed loudly: wide Heaven was shaken and groaned,
and high Olympus reeled from its foundation under the
charge of the undying gods, and a heavy quaking reached
dim Tartarus and the deep sound of their feet in the
fearful onset and of their hard missiles. So, then, they
launched their grievous shafts upon one another, and the
cry of both armies as they shouted reached to starry
heaven; and they met together with a great
battle-cry. (ll. 687-712) Then Zeus no longer
held back his might; but straight his heart was filled
with fury and he showed forth all his strength. From
Heaven and from Olympus he came forthwith, hurling his
lightning: the bold flew thick and fast from his strong
hand together with thunder and lightning, whirling an
awesome flame. The life-giving earth crashed around in
burning, and the vast wood crackled loud with fire all
about. All the land seethed, and Ocean's streams and the
unfruitful sea. The hot vapour lapped round the earthborn
Titans: flame unspeakable rose to the bright upper air:
the flashing glare of the thunder- stone and lightning
blinded their eyes for all that there were strong.
Astounding heat seized Chaos: and to see with eyes and to
hear the sound with ears it seemed even as if Earth and
wide Heaven above came together; for such a mighty crash
would have arisen if Earth were being hurled to ruin, and
Heaven from on high were hurling her down; so great a
crash was there while the gods were meeting together in
strife. Also the winds brought rumbling earthquake and
duststorm, thunder and lightning and the lurid
thunderbolt, which are the shafts of great Zeus, and
carried the clangour and the warcry into the midst of the
two hosts. An horrible uproar of terrible strife arose:
mighty deeds were shown and the battle inclined. But
until then, they kept at one another and fought
continually in cruel war. (ll. 713-735) And amongst the
foremost Cottus and Briareos and Gyes insatiate for war
raised fierce fighting: three hundred rocks, one upon
another, they launched from their strong hands and
overshadowed the Titans with their missiles, and buried
them beneath the wide-pathed earth, and bound them in
bitter chains when they had conquered them by their
strength for all their great spirit, as far beneath the
earth to Tartarus. For a brazen anvil falling down from
heaven nine nights and days would reach the earth upon
the tenth: and again, a brazen anvil falling from earth
nine nights and days would reach Tartarus upon the tenth.
Round it runs a fence of bronze, and night spreads in
triple line all about it like a neck-circlet, while above
grow the roots of the earth and unfruitful sea. There by
the counsel of Zeus who drives the clouds the Titan gods
are hidden under misty gloom, in a dank place where are
the ends of the huge earth. And they may not go out; for
Poseidon fixed gates of bronze upon it, and a wall runs
all round it on every side. There Gyes and Cottus and
great-souled Obriareus live, trusty warders of Zeus who
holds the aegis. (ll. 736-744) And there, all in
their order, are the sources and ends of gloomy earth and
misty Tartarus and the unfruitful sea and starry heaven,
loathsome and dank, which even the gods abhor.
It is a great gulf, and if once a
man were within the gates, he would not reach the floor
until a whole year had reached its end, but cruel blast
upon blast would carry him this way and that. And this
marvel is awful even to the deathless gods. (ll. 744-757) There stands the
awful home of murky Night wrapped in dark clouds. In
front of it the son of Iapetus (22) stands immovably
upholding the wide heaven upon his head and unwearying
hands, where Night and Day draw near and greet one
another as they pass the great threshold of bronze: and
while the one is about to go down into the house, the
other comes out at the door. And the house never holds them
both within; but always one is without the house passing
over the earth, while the other stays at home and waits
until the time for her journeying come; and the one holds
all-seeing light for them on earth, but the other holds
in her arms Sleep the brother of Death, even evil Night,
wrapped in a vaporous cloud. (ll. 758-766) And there the
children of dark Night have their dwellings, Sleep and
Death, awful gods. The glowing Sun never looks upon them
with his beams, neither as he goes up into heaven, nor as
he comes down from heaven. And the former of them roams
peacefully over the earth and the sea's broad back and is
kindly to men; but the other has a heart of iron, and his
spirit within him is pitiless as bronze: whomsoever of
men he has once seized he holds fast: and he is hateful
even to the deathless gods. (ll. 767-774) There, in front,
stand the echoing halls of the god of the lower-world,
strong Hades, and of awful Persephone. A fearful hound
guards the house in front, pitiless, and he has a cruel
trick. On those who go in he fawns with his tail and both
is ears, but suffers them not to go out back again, but
keeps watch and devours whomsoever he catches going out
of the gates of strong Hades and awful Persephone.
(ll. 775-806) And there dwells the
goddess loathed by the deathless gods, terrible Styx,
eldest daughter of back-flowing (23) Ocean. She lives
apart from the gods in her glorious house vaulted over
with great rocks and propped up to heaven all round with
silver pillars. Rarely does the daughter of Thaumas,
swift- footed Iris, come to her with a message over the
sea's wide back. But when strife and quarrel arise
among the deathless gods, and when any of them who live
in the house of Olympus lies, then Zeus sends Iris to
bring in a golden jug the great oath of the gods from far
away, the famous cold water which trickles down from a
high and beetling rock. Far under the wide-pathed earth a
branch of Oceanus flows through the dark night out of the
holy stream, and a tenth part of his water is allotted to
her. With nine silver-swirling streams he winds about the
earth and the sea's wide back, and then falls into the
main (24); but the tenth flows out from a rock, a sore
trouble to the gods. For whoever of the deathless gods
that hold the peaks of snowy Olympus pours a libation of
her water is forsworn, lies breathless until a full year
is completed, and never comes near to taste ambrosia and
nectar, but lies spiritless and voiceless on a strewn
bed: and a heavy trance overshadows him. But when he has
spent a long year in his sickness, another penance and an
harder follows after the first. For nine years he is cut
off from the eternal gods and never joins their councils
of their feasts, nine full years. But in the tenth year
he comes again to join the assemblies of the deathless
gods who live in the house of Olympus. Such an oath,
then, did the gods appoint the eternal and primaeval
water of Styx to be: and it spouts through a rugged
place. (ll. 807-819) And there, all in
their order, are the sources and ends of the dark earth
and misty Tartarus and the unfruitful sea and starry
heaven, loathsome and dank, which even the gods
abhor. And there are shining gates and an
immoveable threshold of bronze having unending roots and
it is grown of itself (25). And beyond, away from all the
gods, live the Titans, beyond gloomy Chaos. But the
glorious allies of loud-crashing Zeus have their dwelling
upon Ocean's foundations, even Cottus and Gyes; but
Briareos, being goodly, the deep-roaring Earth-Shaker
made his son-in-law, giving him Cymopolea his daughter to
wed. (ll. 820-868) But when Zeus had
driven the Titans from heaven, huge Earth bare her
youngest child Typhoeus of the love of Tartarus, by the
aid of golden Aphrodite. Strength was with his hands in
all that he did and the feet of the strong god were
untiring. From his shoulders grew an hundred heads of a
snake, a fearful dragon, with dark, flickering tongues,
and from under the brows of his eyes in his marvellous
heads flashed fire, and fire burned from his heads as he
glared. And there were voices in all his dreadful heads
which uttered every kind of sound unspeakable; for at one
time they made sounds such that the gods understood, but
at another, the noise of a bull bellowing aloud in proud
ungovernable fury; and at another, the sound of a lion,
relentless of heart; and at anothers, sounds like whelps,
wonderful to hear; and again, at another, he would hiss,
so that the high mountains re-echoed. And truly a thing
past help would have happened on that day, and he would
have come to reign over mortals and immortals, had not
the father of men and gods been quick to perceive it. But
he thundered hard and mightily: and the earth around
resounded terribly and the wide heaven above, and the sea
and Ocean's streams and the nether parts of the earth.
Great Olympus reeled beneath the divine feet of the king
as he arose and earth groaned thereat. And through the
two of them heat took hold on the dark-blue sea, through
the thunder and lightning, and through the fire from the
monster, and the scorching winds and blazing thunderbolt.
The whole earth seethed, and sky and sea: and the long
waves raged along the beaches round and about, at the
rush of the deathless gods: and there arose an endless
shaking. Hades trembled where he rules over the dead
below, and the Titans under Tartarus who live with
Cronos, because of the unending clamour and the fearful
strife. So when Zeus had raised up his might and seized
his arms, thunder and lightning and lurid thunderbolt, he
leaped form Olympus and struck him, and burned all the
marvellous heads of the monster about him. But when Zeus
had conquered him and lashed him with strokes, Typhoeus
was hurled down, a maimed wreck, so that the huge earth
groaned. And flame shot forth from the thunder- stricken
lord in the dim rugged glens of the mount (26), when he
was smitten. A great part of huge earth was scorched by
the terrible vapour and melted as tin melts when heated
by men's art in channelled (27) crucibles; or as iron,
which is hardest of all things, is softened by glowing
fire in mountain glens and melts in the divine earth
through the strength of Hephaestus (28). Even so, then,
the earth melted in the glow of the blazing fire. And in
the bitterness of his anger Zeus cast him into wide
Tartarus. (ll. 869-880) And from Typhoeus
come boisterous winds which blow damply, except Notus and
Boreas and clear Zephyr. These are a god-sent kind, and a
great blessing to men; but the others blow fitfully upon
the seas. Some rush upon the misty sea and work great
havoc among men with their evil, raging blasts; for
varying with the season they blow, scattering ships and
destroying sailors. And men who meet these upon the sea
have no help against the mischief. Others again over the
boundless, flowering earth spoil the fair fields of men
who dwell below, filling them with dust and cruel
uproar. (ll. 881-885) But when the blessed
gods had finished their toil, and settled by force their
struggle for honours with the Titans, they pressed
far-seeing Olympian Zeus to reign and to rule over them,
by Earth's prompting. So he divided their dignities
amongst them. (ll. 886-900) Now Zeus, king of
the gods, made Metis his wife first, and she was wisest
among gods and mortal men. But when she was about to
bring forth the goddess bright-eyed Athene, Zeus craftily
deceived her with cunning words and put her in his own
belly, as Earth and starry Heaven advised. For they
advised him so, to the end that no other should hold
royal sway over the eternal gods in place of Zeus; for
very wise children were destined to be born of her, first
the maiden bright-eyed Tritogeneia, equal to her father
in strength and in wise understanding; but afterwards she
was to bear a son of overbearing spirit, king of gods and
men. But Zeus put her into his own belly first, that the
goddess might devise for him both good and evil.
(ll. 901-906) Next he married
bright Themis who bare the Horae (Hours), and Eunomia
(Order), Dike (Justice), and blooming Eirene (Peace), who
mind the works of mortal men, and the Moerae (Fates) to
whom wise Zeus gave the greatest honour, Clotho, and
Lachesis, and Atropos who give mortal men evil and good
to have. (ll. 907-911) And Eurynome, the
daughter of Ocean, beautiful in form, bare him three
fair-cheeked Charites (Graces), Aglaea, and Euphrosyne,
and lovely Thaleia, from whose eyes as they glanced
flowed love that unnerves the limbs: and beautiful is
their glance beneath their brows. (ll. 912-914) Also he came to the
bed of all-nourishing Demeter, and she bare white-armed
Persephone whom Aidoneus carried off from her mother; but
wise Zeus gave her to him. (ll. 915-917) And again, he loved
Mnemosyne with the beautiful hair: and of her the nine
gold-crowned Muses were born who delight in feasts and
the pleasures of song. (ll. 918-920) And Leto was joined
in love with Zeus who holds the aegis, and bare Apollo
and Artemis delighting in arrows, children lovely above
all the sons of Heaven. (ll. 921-923) Lastly, he made Hera
his blooming wife: and she was joined in love with the
king of gods and men, and brought forth Hebe and Ares and
Eileithyia. (ll. 924-929) But Zeus himself
gave birth from his own head to bright-eyed Tritogeneia
(29), the awful, the strife-stirring, the host-leader,
the unwearying, the queen, who delights in tumults and
wars and battles. But Hera without union with Zeus -- for
she was very angry and quarrelled with her mate -- bare
famous Hephaestus, who is skilled in crafts more than all
the sons of Heaven. (ll. 929a-929t) (30) But Hera was
very angry and quarrelled with her mate. And because of
this strife she bare without union with Zeus who holds
the aegis a glorious son, Hephaestus, who excelled all
the sons of Heaven in crafts. But Zeus lay with the fair-
cheeked daughter of Ocean and Tethys apart from
Hera.... ((missing)) ....deceiving Metis (Thought)
although she was full wise. But he seized her with his
hands and put her in his belly, for fear that she might
bring forth something stronger than his thunderbolt:
therefore did Zeus, who sits on high and dwells in the
aether, swallow her down suddenly. But she straightway
conceived Pallas Athene: and the father of men and gods
gave her birth by way of his head on the banks of the
river Trito. And she remained hidden beneath the inward
parts of Zeus, even Metis, Athena's mother, worker of
righteousness, who was wiser than gods and mortal men.
There the goddess (Athena) received that (31) whereby she
excelled in strength all the deathless ones who dwell in
Olympus, she who made the host-scaring weapon of Athena.
And with it (Zeus) gave her birth, arrayed in arms of
war. (ll. 930-933) And of Amphitrite
and the loud-roaring Earth-Shaker was born great,
wide-ruling Triton, and he owns the depths of the sea,
living with his dear mother and the lord his father in
their golden house, an awful god. (ll. 933-937) Also Cytherea bare
to Ares the shield-piercer Panic and Fear, terrible gods
who drive in disorder the close ranks of men in numbing
war, with the help of Ares, sacker of towns: and Harmonia
whom high-spirited Cadmus made his wife. (ll. 938-939) And Maia, the
daughter of Atlas, bare to Zeus glorious Hermes, the
herald of the deathless gods, for she went up into his
holy bed. (ll. 940-942) And Semele, daughter
of Cadmus was joined with him in love and bare him a
splendid son, joyous Dionysus, -- a mortal woman an
immortal son. And now they both are gods. (ll. 943-944) And Alemena was
joined in love with Zeus who drives the clouds and bare
mighty Heracles. (ll. 945-946) And Hephaestus, the
famous Lame One, made Aglaea, youngest of the Graces, his
buxom wife. (ll. 947-949) And golden-haired
Dionysus made brown-haired Ariadne, the daughter of
Minos, his buxom wife: and the son of Cronos made her
deathless and unageing for him. (ll. 950-955) And mighty Heracles,
the valiant son of neat-ankled Alemena, when he had
finished his grievous toils, made Hebe the child of great
Zeus and gold-shod Hera his shy wife in snowy Olympus.
Happy he! For he has finished his great works and lives
amongst the dying gods, untroubled and unaging all his
days. (ll. 956-962) And Perseis, the
daughter of Ocean, bare to unwearying Helios Circe and
Aeetes the king. And Aeetes, the son of Helios who shows
light to men, took to wife fair-cheeked Idyia, daughter
of Ocean the perfect stream, by the will of the gods: and
she was subject to him in love through golden Aphrodite
and bare him neat-ankled Medea. (ll. 963-968) And now farewell,
you dwellers on Olympus and you islands and continents
and thou briny sea within. Now sing the company of
goddesses, sweet-voiced Muses of Olympus, daughter of
Zeus who holds the aegis, -- even those deathless one who
lay with mortal men and bare children like unto
gods. (ll. 969-974) Demeter, bright
goddess, was joined in sweet love with the hero Iasion in
a thrice-ploughed fallow in the rich land of Crete, and
bare Plutus, a kindly god who goes everywhere over land
and the sea's wide back, and him who finds him and into
whose hands he comes he makes rich, bestowing great
wealth upon him. (ll. 975-978) And Harmonia, the
daughter of golden Aphrodite, bare to Cadmus Ino and
Semele and fair-cheeked Agave and Autonoe whom long
haired Aristaeus wedded, and Polydorus also in rich-
crowned Thebe. (ll. 979-983) And the daughter of
Ocean, Callirrhoe was joined in the love of rich
Aphrodite with stout hearted Chrysaor and bare a son who
was the strongest of all men, Geryones, whom mighty
Heracles killed in sea-girt Erythea for the sake of his
shambling oxen. (ll. 984-991) And Eos bare to
Tithonus brazen-crested Memnon, king of the Ethiopians,
and the Lord Emathion. And to Cephalus she bare a
splendid son, strong Phaethon, a man like the gods, whom,
when he was a young boy in the tender flower of glorious
youth with childish thoughts, laughter-loving Aphrodite
seized and caught up and made a keeper of her shrine by
night, a divine spirit. (ll. 993-1002) And the son of
Aeson by the will of the gods led away from Aeetes the
daughter of Aeetes the heaven-nurtured king, when he had
finished the many grievous labours which the great king,
over bearing Pelias, that outrageous and presumptuous
doer of violence, put upon him. But when the son of Aeson
had finished them, he came to Iolcus after long toil
bringing the coy-eyed girl with him on his swift ship,
and made her his buxom wife. And she was subject to
Iason, shepherd of the people, and bare a son Medeus whom
Cheiron the son of Philyra brought up in the mountains.
And the will of great Zeus was fulfilled. (ll. 1003-1007) But of the
daughters of Nereus, the Old man of the Sea, Psamathe the
fair goddess, was loved by Aeacus through golden
Aphrodite and bare Phocus. And the silver-shod goddess
Thetis was subject to Peleus and brought forth
lion-hearted Achilles, the destroyer of men. (ll. 1008-1010) And Cytherea with
the beautiful crown was joined in sweet love with the
hero Anchises and bare Aeneas on the peaks of Ida with
its many wooded glens. (ll. 1011-1016) And Circe the
daughter of Helius, Hyperion's son, loved steadfast
Odysseus and bare Agrius and Latinus who was faultless
and strong: also she brought forth Telegonus by the will
of golden Aphrodite. And they ruled over the famous
Tyrenians, very far off in a recess of the holy
islands. (ll. 1017-1018) And the bright
goddess Calypso was joined to Odysseus in sweet love, and
bare him Nausithous and Nausinous. (ll. 1019-1020) These are the
immortal goddesses who lay with mortal men and bare them
children like unto gods. (ll. 1021-1022) But now,
sweet-voiced Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who
holds the aegis, sing of the company of women.
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