Hesiod API - urantia.dev

The API serves Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days (Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914) as JSON, one passage at a time, by the reference people use. Hesiod’s poems of the birth of the gods and of the life of work. It has 171 passages in 2 poems. No key and no account.

Get a passage

# Theogony 116-138
curl https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/hesiod/Theogony%20116

{
  "data": {
    "corpus": {
      "slug": "hesiod",
      "title": "Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days",
      "translator": "Hugh G. Evelyn-White",
      "year": 1914
    },
    "passages": [
      {
        "ref": "Theogony 116-138",
        "division": 1,
        "text": "Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and..."
      }
    ]
  }
}

The slug hesiod, the id hesiod-evelyn-white-1914, and the prefix hesiod all name this text.

References

Poem and line, Theogony 116 or Works and Days 293. A passage covers a range of lines, such as Works and Days 293-319. GET /scriptures/hesiod lists every poem with its first and last reference.

Search

# By meaning
curl -X POST https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/search/semantic \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"your question","corpus":"hesiod","limit":5}'
# By keyword
curl 'https://api.urantia.dev/works/search?q=your%20words&work=hesiod'

Each passage also links to the closest paragraphs of the Urantia Papers: GET /scriptures/hesiod/Theogony%20116/urantia-parallels. The world religions guide explains how the links are made, and the MCP server has the same calls for AI agents.

Source

Text: Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days, translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)
Source: www.gutenberg.org
License: Public domain in the United States
Notes: The prose translation, cut where Evelyn-White marks the Greek line numbers (Theogony 116-138). The Shield of Heracles and the fragments of the lost poems are not here.