Greek Mythology Creation Story — From Chaos to the Olympian Gods

From Chaos to Olympus

Before Zeus ruled from Mount Olympus, Greek mythology imagined a much older world. The best-known account survives in Hesiod’s Theogony, composed around the late eighth or seventh century BCE. There is no single creator deliberately making the universe. Instead, the cosmos gradually takes shape as primordial beings emerge and successive generations of gods are born. … Read more