First Opening: Chaos, Earth, and the Birth of the Greek Cosmos

Before Zeus, before the Titans, before any hero set out, what could a world begin with? The First Opening follows the primordial sequence of Hesiod's Theogony through an original English literary retelling. Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, Eros, Night, Day, Heaven, Mountains, and Sea emerge within a substantial invented story of a shepherd learning both the power and the limits of his voice. When a disputed...