Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (15)

• Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Zeus’s Rise: Liberation of the Siblings and First Allies
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean detail on Metis’s drug and Cyclopes’ gifts)
• The Titanomachy
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Imprisonment of the Titans and the Warders of Tartarus
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Asclepius: Birth from Coronis; Death by Zeus; Apollo’s Revenge on the Cyclopes
  Olympian gods / Asclepiad · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Coronis; crow; thunderbolt; Cyclopes; servitude to Admetus)
• Apollo as Admetus’s Herdsman (Alcestis Setup)
  Olympian gods / Thessalian · Apollodorean / Euripidean prologue (servitude after Cyclopes; herds prosper; Fate-bargain)
• Coronis and the Crow (Raven): The Informant Bird
  Olympian gods / Asclepiad prelude · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue*; Ovid-labeled Roman for white-to-black color change
• Artemis Asks Zeus for Eternal Virginity (Callimachus)
  Olympian gods — Artemis / childhood petition · Callimachean Hymn — child Artemis’s boons from Zeus
• Homeric Hymn to Asclepius (16)
  Olympian gods / heroes — Asclepius / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XVI — birth from Apollo and Coronis; healer of disease
• Asclepius Resurrects Hippolytus
  Heroes — Asclepiad / Hippolytus aftermath (beyond Euripides’ death) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cultic — Asclepius raises Hippolytus; Zeus’s bolt follows
• Asclepius at Epidaurus: Healing Cult Myth
  Local and lesser — Epidaurian cult · Pausanian Epidaurian (local birth; incubation; sacred dogs and snakes); inscriptional iamata
• Hygieia: Birth and Cult (Brief)
  Local and lesser — Asclepiad / healing gods · Classical cult / Apollodorean Asclepiad family / Pausanian
• Machaon and Podalirius at Troy
  Local and lesser — Asclepiads / Trojan War physicians · Homeric / cyclic / Apollodorean
• Death of Machaon (Eurypylus)
  Local and lesser — Asclepiads / Trojan endgame · Cyclic / Posthomeric / Pausanian
• Asclepius as Ophiuchus (Serpent-Bearer)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Asclepius · Catasterismic handbook — Asclepius placed as Ophiuchus with the serpent

Places appearing with them

• Achaean camp at Troy
• Amyclae
• Aricia
• Assembly
• Assembly place
• Boundless earth
• Boundless sea
• Broader Greek Asclepieia
• Bronze gates
• Chaos
• Cos
• Crete
• Dim Tartarus
• Earth
• Ends of the huge earth
• Epidaurus
• Erebus
• Gloomy Chaos
• Heaven
• House of Admetus
• Mount Titthion
• Mountains, harbors, cities
• Mysia
• Ocean’s foundations
• Ocean’s streams
• Olympus
• Othrys
• Parnassus
• Pelion
• Peloponnesian
• Pherae
• Pyre of Coronis
• Pytho
• Rock tomb
• Secret place of Earth
• Tartarus
• The deep
• The surging sea
• Thessaly
• Tricca
• Troezen
• Troy’s plain
• Underworld
• Unfruitful sea
• Wide Heaven
• Wide-pathed Earth

Themes

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