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The Theogony: a watercolor manga

All 8 parts of Hesiod's Theogony in 43 illustrated pages. Free.

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The Theogony, Part 1, first manga pagePart OneThe Muses of Helicon meet the shepherd Hesiod, give him a laurel staff and a divine voice.The Theogony, Part 2, first manga pagePart TwoIn the beginning: Chaos, Earth, starry Heaven, the Titans, the Cyclopes and the Hundred-Handers.The Theogony, Part 3, first manga pagePart ThreeThe sickle: Earth's plan, Cronus's ambush, and Aphrodite born from the sea foam.The Theogony, Part 4, first manga pagePart FourChildren of Night and Sea: the Fates, Nereus, Medusa and Pegasus, Echidna and her monsters, Styx and Hecate.The Theogony, Part 5, first manga pagePart FiveThe swallowed children: Cronus swallows his children, Rhea hides baby Zeus on Crete, the stone.The Theogony, Part 6, first manga pagePart SixPrometheus and the first woman: the trick at Mecone, the stolen fire, the woman made of earth.The Theogony, Part 7, first manga pagePart SevenThe war of the Titans: the Hundred-Handers freed, Zeus unleashes the thunderbolt, Tartarus.The Theogony, Part 8, first manga pagePart EightTyphoeus and the reign of Zeus: the hundred-headed monster, Athena born from his head, the gods.
Every caption and speech bubble is a word-for-word line from the Scriptorium Press translation of the Theogony. The pictures were drawn with an AI image model (Google's Nano Banana) and checked page by page against the text. Each part links to the full text, so you can read the scene in full after seeing it drawn.