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heroogony

/ˌhi.ɹoʊˈɑ.ɡə.ni/

heroogony noun: the history and genealogy of demigods or heroes, especially the uncompleted history found in portions of Hesiod's Theogony.

Noun

heroogony (uncountable)

  1. The history and genealogy of demigods or heroes, especially the uncompleted history found in portions of Hesiod's Theogony.
    • […] the last portion, which is in fact a heroogony, being an account of the heroes born by mortal morthers whose charms had drawn the immortals from Olympus.1846, “Hsiodus”, in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, volume 2, page 442
    • The Theogony consists of a cosmogony, a theogony proper, and an unfinished heroogony.2010, Jon Bartley Stewart, editor, Kierkegaard and the Greek World: Aristotle and other Greek authors

Questions about heroogony

What does heroogony mean?
Heroogony means the history and genealogy of demigods or heroes, especially the uncompleted history found in portions of Hesiod's Theogony.
What part of speech is heroogony?
Heroogony is a noun.
How do you pronounce heroogony?
Heroogony is pronounced /ˌhi.ɹoʊˈɑ.ɡə.ni/.

Words near heroogony in the dictionary

  1. heronsews
  2. heronshaw
  3. heronshaws
  4. heronshew
  5. heronshews
  6. heroogony
  7. heroon
  8. heroons
  9. heropanti
  10. Herophilian
  11. Herophilist

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