Theogony: alternatives and connections

A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine.

The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.

A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic po…

Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler…

The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root.

A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.

Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fict…

A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the read…

Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

Alternate generation. See under Generation.

A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the sa…

One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.

the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)

Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line…

State of being heathen or like the heathen.

That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; --…