Before the Gods Were Kings: Chaos, the Sickle, and the Rise of Zeus

The oldest surviving Greek answer to where everything came from, told as a family story: out of the yawning gap came Earth, the pit, and Desire — and then three generations of divine kings, a father who buried his children, a son who swallowed his, and a grandson who broke the cycle. The sickle, the stone in the swaddling clothes, the ten-year war, the hundred-headed monster, the theft of fire, and the ordering of Olympus — the backstory beneath every Greek myth ever told.