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Quotation from The Library (Bibliotheca) by Apollodorus (attributed)

“Sky was the first who ruled over the whole world.”

Apollodorus (attributed) (spoken by Narrator)

The Library (Bibliotheca), Book I.1.1, trans. Sir James George Frazer (1921)

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The opening sentence of the Library, before Sky weds Earth and begets the Hundred-handed, the Cyclopes and the Titans.

Citation: "Sky was the first who ruled over the whole world." — Apollodorus (attributed), The Library (Bibliotheca), Book I.1.1, trans. Sir James George Frazer (1921). (id apollodorus-library-q1)

Portrait: Bibliotheke des Apollodor, Title page of an 1805 edition of the Bibliotheca, Public domain.

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