“There is no benefit when music stands secret and hidden.” — Lucian

If there is a single name that stands alongside that of Homer in its importance in Greek letters and their legacy trough time, then that is definitely the name of Hesiod.
The Theogony has long been considered a short of “sourcebook” for ancient Greek mythology and the genealogy of the gods. Having already spoken of the Dodecatheon, or the Twelve Major Gods of Greek mythology, in our other sheet music books, this one will be focused on something different.

Instead of the great gods of classical Greece, we shall encounter more primordial deities, elemental forces, as well as personifications not found in the major gods. We will see the world as the ancients saw it before the emergence of the anthropomorphic Olympians and Zeus’ indisputable rule, a world filled with the original forces of nature and creation, as Hesiod’s cosmology would have them, before the arrival of a kind of reason, with the rise of the gods.

This is a curated selection of stories & verses from the great epic so that you can narrate its key moments with your lyre, adding some of the most significant and compelling stories of the ancient world to your repertoire.

Songs’ list: Invocation to the Muses ✦ The Call ✦ The Primordial Gods ✦ The Cyclopes and the Ekatoncheires ✦ All the terrible things ✦ Eris ✦ Children of the Sea ✦ Monsters and Nightmares ✦ Styx ✦ The House of Styx and the Oath of the Gods ✦ The Sky ✦ Prometheus and the Tricking of Zeus ✦ Prometheus and the Stealing of Fire

“This Sheet Music Book is our latest addition to our effort to enrich the available educational resources for lyre and lyre-like musical instruments,” Nikolaos Koumartzis, the series’ director, explains.

The book is part of the Lyre Sheet Music series, in which some of the greatest lyre players around the world participate, including Lina Palera, Thanasis Kleopas, Michael Levy, and Theodore Koumartzis.

Pages: 60 | Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches | sheet music for lyres or kitharas with 7 or more strings

_Credits
Nikolaos Koumartzis, D.Phil. (editor-in-chief)
Fotis Giantsios, M.Litt. (research director)
Lina Palera (composer)