Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (23)

• Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Birth of Aphrodite from the Foam
  Cosmogony / Theogony (cosmogonic birth) · Hesiodic (foam-born; distinct from Homeric “daughter of Zeus and Dione”)
• Typhoeus Against Zeus (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• Pandora and the Jar
  Cosmogony / Theogony (origins of human ills) · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* (named Pandora; jar/pithos of evils; Hope remaining)
• Philotes: Affection, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified affection · Hesiodic — Philotes (Affection / sexual love) among Nyx’s children
• Aphrodite as Daughter of Zeus and Dione
  Olympian gods · Homeric (Olympian parentage; distinct from Hesiodic foam-birth)
• Ares and Aphrodite Caught by Hephaestus
  Olympian gods · Homeric — Demodocus’s song in *Odyssey* 8
• Anchises and Aphrodite (Homeric Hymn V)
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Trojan ancestry · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (5) — full classical narrative
• Marriage of Hephaestus and Aphrodite
  Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Aphrodite · Homeric marital pairing (beyond the net-song) / handbook olympian household
• Hephaestus and Charis (Iliad Marriage)
  Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Charites · Homeric (*Iliad*) / Hesiodic (Aglaia)
• Dione Comforts Wounded Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Dione · Homeric (*Iliad* 5) — maternal consolation on Olympus after Diomedes’ wound
• Hestia: Virgin Privilege and the Hearth
  Olympian gods — Hestia · Homeric Hymns — eternal virginity; first and last libations; hearth privilege
• Aphrodite and Adonis: Love and Death by the Boar (Classical)
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Adonis · Apollodorean / mythographic classical (vs. Bion’s lament)
• Phobos and Deimos: Children of Ares
  Olympian gods — Ares / personified war-terrors · Hesiodic / Homeric — Fear and Terror as Ares’s sons and attendants
• Homeric Hymns to Aphrodite (6 and 10)
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns VI and X — foam-born Cyprian praise; Theban/Cytherean cult titles
• The Aloadae Bind Ares in a Bronze Jar
  Olympian gods — Ares / Aloadae humiliation · Homeric digression (*Iliad* 5) — Otus and Ephialtes imprison Ares thirteen months
• Aphrodite, Phaon, and the Lesbian Ferryman
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Lesbian local legend · Classical prose notices (Aelian / Servius / Palaephatus strand) — ferry gift; youth restored; Sappho leap as later attachment
• Andromeda at Joppa: Local Palestinian Localization
  Heroes — Perseus · Local Joppa / Iope (classical travel and geographic notices vs. Apollodorean Ethiopia)
• Hippolytus and Phaedra (Euripides)
  Heroes — Theseus · Attic tragic — Euripides, *Hippolytus* (Phaedra’s forbidden love; Theseus’s curse; Artemis and Aphrodite)
• Departure and the Women of Lemnos (Hypsipyle)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Lemnian women; Hypsipyle; sojourn and departure)
• Diomedes’ Aristeia: Wounding of Aphrodite and Ares
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 5 (with close of 4 / opening of 6)
• Diomedes Wounds Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Diomedes’ aristeia · Homeric — Athena’s leave; spear to Aphrodite’s wrist; Aeneas rescued

Places appearing with them

• Achaean and Trojan lines
• Assembly
• Assembly of the gods
• Banks of the river Trito
• Beaches
• Boundless earth
• Bronze jar
• Bronze jar / detention of Ares
• Cyprus
• Cythera
• Dim rugged glens of the mount
• Earth
• Ethiopia
• Heaven
• Hellespont
• Hephaestus’s bronze house on Olympus
• Hephaestus’s house on Olympus
• Hollow fennel-stalk
• House of Zeus
• Hunting wilds
• Iolcus
• Island of Aphrodite’s sacrifice
• Joppa
• Land of the Hebrews
• Lesbos
• Leucadian rock
• Lycia
• Misty sea
• Mortal hearths and temples
• Nether parts of the earth
• Night’s generative darkness
• Nymphs’ mountain dwellings
• Ocean’s streams
• Olympia
• Olympus
• Pergamus
• Phoenicia
• Rocks of Joppa
• Scheria
• Sea off Trozen
• Secret place of Earth
• Tartarus
• The spring by the sea at Joppa
• The surging sea
• Thebes
• Thetis’s path from the sea to Olympus
• Thrace
• Troezen
• Trojan battlefield
• Troy
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Castration
• Creation
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• Underworld
• War