Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Hecate’s Privileges (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian settlement / goddess of crossroads · Hesiodic (*Theogony* hymn to Hecate)
• Asteria Becomes Delos (Ortygia)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / Delian aetiology · Apollodorean / Callimachean / mythographic (quail / star → island)
• Coeus and Phoebe: Leto and Asteria
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan oracular / Delian line · Hesiodic — Coeus–Phoebe daughters
• Hecate’s Parentage: Asteria and Perses (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan line / Hecate · Hesiodic — birth from Perses and Asteria
• Leto’s Wanderings Seeking a Birthplace (before Delos)
  Olympian gods — Leto / birth of Apollo and Artemis · Homeric Hymn / Apollodorean / Callimachean enrichment

Places appearing with them

• (No single earthly locale in the parentage passage)
• Assembly
• Cosmic domains
• Crete
• Earth, heaven, and sea
• Olympus
• Ortygia
• Pytho
• The deep

Themes

• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• War