The Order of Olympus

The victorious gods ask Zeus to rule, and his first act is to divide honours fairly among the immortals. When the old curse returns — his wife Metis is destined to bear a son greater than his father — Zeus swallows Wisdom herself, and her daughter Athena is born instead from his own head, fully armed. The engine of the poem stops with a birth, not a battle. Marriage by marriage the universe is woven into government — Law bears the Seasons and the Fates, Memory bears the nine Muses — and the song ends where it began, with the singers themselves, daughters of the new order.