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Rh and Pluto, were gods, though we find that they are later born than the world. And he also relates how Saturn was assailed in war by his own son Jupiter; for he says:

Then he introduces in his poem the daughters of Jupiter, whom he names Muses, and as whose suppliant he appears, desiring to ascertain from them how all things were made; for he says:

But how could the Muses, who are younger than the world, know these things? Or how could they relate to Hesiod [what was happening], when their father was not yet born?

And in a certain way he indeed admits matter [as self-existent] and the creation of the world [without a creator], saying:

First of all things was chaos made, and next Broad-bosom'd earth's foundations firm were fixed,