Theogony

Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells how they came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos. The initial state of the universe is chaos, a dark indefinite void considered as a divine primordial condition from which everything else appeared. It is the first Greek mythical cosmogony.

Theogony is a part of Greek mythology which embodies the desire to articulate reality as a whole; this universalizing impulse was fundamental for the first later projects of speculative theorizing.