Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Ascalaphus Turned into an Owl
  Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld daimones / Demeter’s vengeance · Apollodorean (+ Ovid-labeled Roman enrichment) — orchard-witness of the pomegranate; Demeter (or Persephone) makes him an owl
• Twelfth Labor: Cerberus and the Descent to Hades (Theseus and Pirithous)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Eleusinian initiation; Taenarum descent; Medusa phantom; Theseus raised, Pirithous left; Cerberus mastered without weapons; ascent via Troezen)

Places appearing with them

• Amyclae
• Eleusis
• Gates of Acheron
• Gates of Hades
• Hades
• Mycenae
• Night
• Troezen
• Underworld orchard of Hades

Themes

• Binding
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Theft
• Underworld