halfgods

Updated: June 20, 2025

A trace of this type may perhaps be recognized in Hesiod's "halfgods," the heroes of the Trojan war and others, whom he places just after the age of bronze and just before his modern age of iron; their origin is thus made relatively late, as was natural if they descended culturally from old gods.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV