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Quotation from Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod
“Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all”
Theogony and Works and Days, Theogony, ll. 116-117, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White
The beginning of the account of the first beings, after the Muses are asked which of them came first.
Citation: "Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all" — Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, Theogony, ll. 116-117, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White. (id hesiod-theogony-and-works-and-days-q8)
Portrait: Bust of an unknown Greek poet, long identified as Hesiod (the 'Pseudo-Seneca'), Roman copy, British Museum, Unknown Roman sculptor, Public domain.
