Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• 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)
• Atlas Condemned to Hold the Heavens
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan punishment · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (sky-burden as Zeus’s sentence after the Titan war)
• Children of Iapetus: Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, Epimetheus
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue of Iapetus and Clymene
• The Topography of Tartarus (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld geography / cosmic architecture · Hesiodic — Tartarus’s measures, gates, and residents beyond Titan imprisonment alone
• Birth and Early Exploits of Hermes: Cattle Theft, Lyre, and Reconciliation with Apollo
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Hermes
• Zeus and Maia: Parentage of Hermes
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s loves / birth of Hermes · Hesiodic / Homeric Hymn — Maia in the cave of Cyllene

Places appearing with them

• Banks of the river Trito
• Before the Hesperides
• Borders of earth
• Borders of the earth
• Bronze fence and Poseidon’s gates
• Earth
• Erebus
• Fragrant altars
• Halls of Sleep and Death
• Heaven
• House of Hades and Persephone
• House of Night and Day
• House of Styx
• Islands of the Blessed
• Mecone
• Mount Cyllene
• Ogygia
• Olympus
• Onchestus
• Pillars of heaven and earth
• Pylos
• River Alpheus
• Tartarus
• Underworld
• Western edge of the earth

Themes

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