Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• Prometheus: The Trick at Mecone, the Theft of Fire, and His Binding
  Cosmogony / Theogony (divine–human settlement) · Hesiodic (merged *Theogony* and *Works and Days* fire narrative; woman-as-price summarized here; jar episode in separate Pandora entry)
• Hera Suckling Heracles: Aetiology of the Milky Way
  Olympian gods / Heracles infancy · Late classical notices (Diodorus; Pausanias; scholia; Hyginus) — aetiology of the galaxy (*galaxias*)

Places appearing with them

• Banks of the river Trito
• Borders of the earth
• Earth
• Erebus
• Fragrant altars
• Heaven
• Mecone
• Olympus
• The Milky Way
• Thebes
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War