Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Briareus–Aegaeon Summoned by Thetis (*Iliad* 1)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hecatoncheires in Homeric narrative · Homeric — Thetis’s rescue of Zeus; Briareus called Aegaeon by men
• Poseidon and Helios Contest for Corinth
  Olympian gods / Corinthian aetiology · Pausanian — Briareos arbitrates; Isthmus to Poseidon, Acrocorinth height to Helios

Places appearing with them

• Acrocorinth
• Corinth
• Isthmus of Corinth
• Olympus

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Underworld
• War