Chapter 1: The Early Gods
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♠ Hesiod, Theogony 791-92
he winds about the earth and the sea’s wide back, and then falls into the main; but the tenth flows out from a rock, a sore trouble to the gods. Greek text
♠ Homer, Odyssey 11.13-19
She came to deep-flowing Oceanus, that bounds the Earth, where is the land and city of the Cimmerians, wrapped in mist and cloud. Never does the bright sun look down on them with his rays either when he mounts the starry heaven or when he turns again to earth from heaven, but baneful night is spread over wretched mortals. Greek Text
♠ Mimnermos 12 W – Iambi et Elegi Graeci 2, pp. 86-87, ed. M. L. West. Oxford 1972
♠ Stesichoros 185 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, pp. 100-1, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.
♠ Titanomachia fr 8 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 14, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.
♠ Homer, Iliad 18.607-8
Therein he set also the great might of the river Oceanus, around the uttermost rim of the strongly-wrought shield. Greek Text
♠ Homer, Iliad 21.195-97
nor the great might of deep-flowing Ocean, from whom all rivers flow and every sea, and all the springs and deep wells. Greek Text
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, University of Georgia, July 2020
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