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expositions-1191	none	Some Principles at Work in Hesiod’s Theogony	2012	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3552	145	61	So a fourth principle emerges, one that is visible very early – the principle that generation implies degeneration, that is, it implies the process of growing old and being replaced by succeeding generations, one’s own children in fact. Zeus halts the process of divine generation by swallowing Metis, his first wife, by using her power within him to organize the cosmos, to order it through various dispensations, by assigning prerogatives to the deities under his sway, but he preserves the generative principle by continuing to engage in a series of dynastic “marriages,” which in various ways produce either deities that do not generate or humans that do but are not a threat to him because they are mortal.	cache/expositions-1191.pdf	txt/expositions-1191.txt