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Ouranos

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Sky as a divine figure in Greek poetry; Kronos’s father in Hesiod.

The assault on Ouranos in a sixteenth-century work by Vasari and Gherardi, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Later artistic reception,  not an ancient Greek witness or a contemporary image of Hesiod’s time
The assault on Ouranos in a sixteenth-century work by Vasari and Gherardi, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Later artistic reception, not an ancient Greek witness or a contemporary image of Hesiod’s timeGiorgio Vasari / Cristoforo Gherardi / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · Public domainImage rights · Image source

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Ouranos is Sky as a divine figure in the Greek poet HesiodHesiodGreek poet whose major work is generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE, including the Theogony.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s TheogonyHesiod’s TheogonyGreek poem on divine generations and Zeus’s kingship; its surviving form does not identify all of Hesiod’s sources.Glossary · Click to read the explanation. The poem makes him father of KronosKronosGreek divine figure and Zeus’s father; Hesiod connects his reign with struggles between divine generations.Glossary · Click to read the explanation and other children with Gaia, Earth. His conflict with Gaia and their children occurs early in divine succession. [1]

Gaia devises the plan Kronos carries out with a sickle. Here Ouranos is the sky god and a narrative figure; context distinguishes this name from modern planetary usage. [1][2]

References and notes

  1. Hesiod, Theogony Lines130–174: family and plan. Return to the text ↑
  2. Hesiod, Theogony Lines175–209: the plan carried out. Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 3 · 13 October 2026 · aladmin

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  2. Edition 2 · 13 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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IL Archive, «Ouranos», Edition 3, https://ilarchive.com/en/entities/ouranos-greek-god