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The story opens with Gaia and Uranus. Zeus is not yet on the scene; in fact he is the grandson of Uranus/ Heaven, and his father Cronos of the crooked counsels was supreme between them. Hesiod tells the story, known to Homer, of the succession of sky gods. First Uranus was supreme, but he suppressed his children, and Gaia encouraged his son Cronos to castrate him. Cronos in turn devoured his own children, until his wife Rhea gave him a stone to eat in place of Zeus; the child Zeus was brought up in Crete, compelled his father to disgorge his siblings, and with them and other aid defeated Cronos and his Titans and cast them down into Tartarus.

Hesíodo, citado por Blagoja Varoshanec in The Oxford History of the Classical World

Zeus Blitzes A Giant Or Titan. From the corner of the pediment of the Temple of Artemis on Corcyra (Corfu), early sixth century B.C. Apotropaic monsters such as the Gorgon (which figures at the centre of this pediment) or violent scenes of Olympian power such as this, are favourite themes for the decoration of early temples. Later the scenes are more closely related to local cult or history. The giant is here wholly human, Zeus naked as is common with gods and heroes, displaying their power and reflecting Greek acceptance of and pride in nudity.



We see the attempt, quite in Hesiod's manner, to preserve the omniscience of Zeus, although the story clearly assumes that the god was really taken in.

Hesiod develops his story to deal with two other great features of the world: fire and women. 

In anger at his deception Zeus deprived men of fire, but Prometheus brought it back in a hollow tube. Angered still more, Zeus devised the first woman, the mother of the disastrous race of women, who live with men like drones with bees, parasitic and profligate; yet necessary, if a man is not to be without children to care for his old age. 

We see the contrast between this peasant misogyny and the tragic clear-sightedness of the Iliad, when we compare Achilles' description to Priam of the two jars of good and evil from which Zeus gives to mankind either a mixture of both or unmixed evil: 'So did the gods deal with my father Peleus ... and you too, old man, we hear were happy once, before the Achaeans came ...' (Iliad 24. 534 ff.), with Hesiod saying that if a man gets a good wife, then he has something to offset the bad; but with a bad one life is unbearable (Theog. 607ff.).

Blagoja Varoshanec, The Oxford History of the Classical World