These stories make up what is known as Greek mythology which derived from the Greek word mythos. It implies something untrue but for the ancient Greeks these stories were a matter of faith. They help explain how and why the world works as it does. The ancient people, certainly the Greeks felt that deeply passionate feelings were somehow connected in the human mind and emotions where great desires and hatreds were somehow links. Homer (700-800 BC), commonly credited as the Greek poet and author of Western Literature 's first and most influential works Iliad (c. 750-725 BC) and its sequel Odyssey (c. 743-713 BC). THE THEOGONY (The Birth of the Gods). The Theogony is a poem written by Hesiod (8th – 7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods and goddesses. It was composed at 700 BC and written in the Epic dialect of Homeric Greek. According to Hesiod, the world began differently. First, there was a supernatural presence that called Khaos or Chaos. By which Hesiod means emptiness, not disorder. After Khaos, there was a Goddess called Gaea, the Earth. Gaea slept with Uranus, the Heaven. Uranus and Gaea had many children; the twelve Titans, three Cyclopes, and three Hecatoncheires. Hating his children, Uranus banished them to Tartarus, inside Gaea. Gaea was furious and created a diamond sickle, which she gave to Cronus, one of the Titans. Cronus found his father and castrated him in his sleep; from the blood that fell on the earth, the Erinnyes, the