#theogony

I still don't know how to write posts because I cringe at myself everytime I type something no matter what, sooo...

My team and I have been working tirelessly on a cartoon retelling of Hesiod’s epic poem: The Theogony.

We still have quite a way to go, but I thought I’d showcase our progress by releasing this unfinished animatic of one of the film’s best scenes.

The scene in question is an (almost) direct telling of verses 463-465 of Hesiod’s Theogony, where the goddess Gaia informs her son, Kronos, about a prophecy that he’ll be overthrown by his children someday.

Tiberinus is the god of the Tiber River.

According to Book VIII of Virgil's epic Aeneid, Tiberinus helped Aeneas after his arrival in Italy from Troy, suggesting to him that he seek an alliance with Evander of Pallene in the war against Turnus and his allies.

ἦ τοι μὲν πρώτιστα Χάος γένετ᾽, αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα Γαῖ᾽ εὐρύστερνος, πάντων ἕδος ἀσφαλὲς αἰεὶ ἀθανάτων, οἳ ἔχουσι κάρη νιφόεντος Ὀλύμπου, Τάρταρά τ᾽ ἠερόεντα μυχῷ χθονὸς εὐρυοδείης, ἠδ᾽ Ἔρος, ὃς κάλλιστος ἐν ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι, λυσιμελής, πάντων δὲ θεῶν πάντων τ᾽ ἀνθρώπων δάμναται ἐν στήθεσσι νόον καὶ ἐπίφρονα βουλήν. ἐκ Χάεος δ᾽ Ἔρεβός τε μέλαινά τε Νὺξ ἐγένοντο: Νυκτὸς δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ Αἰθήρ τε καὶ Ἡμέρη ἐξεγένοντο, οὓς τέκε κυσαμένη Ἐρέβει φιλότητι μιγεῖσα. Γαῖα δέ τοι πρῶτον μὲν ἐγείνατο ἶσον ἑαυτῇ Οὐρανὸν ἀστερόενθ᾽, ἵνα μιν περὶ πάντα καλύπτοι, ὄφρ᾽ εἴη μακάρεσσι θεοῖς ἕδος ἀσφαλὲς αἰεί.

So first of all, Chaos was born, and then Broad-breasted Earth, the unshaken seat of all The immortals who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, And murky Tartarus, in a nook of the broad-pathed Earth, And Eros, who is comeliest of immortal gods, The limb-loosener--he masters the mind in the midriff And the sage counsel of all gods and all humans. From Chaos were born black Erebus and Night: In turn from Night were born both Aether and Day-- Pregnant she bore them, having mingled in love with Erebus. But Earth first bore, equal to herself, Starry Sky, for him to cover her all over, That she might be for the blessed gods a seat Unshaken forever.

And the current book I was reading back then was Hesiod's Theogony.

Like YES Ms. K, I've read all of the percy jackson books but my knowledge for it is so much more than that! I don't play about my greek literature 😡