Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Birth of the Muses (Mnemosyne and Zeus)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian generation / arts · Hesiodic
• Orpheus and Eurydice: The Descent
  Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean Greek notice (+ Plato); fuller narrative is largely Roman (Vergil/Ovid)—labeled
• Linus: Aetiology of the Mourning Song
  Local and lesser — musical aetiology / harvest lament · Homeric / Hesiodic / Pindaric / Pausanian (multiple Linus figures; song *ailinon*)

Places appearing with them

• Eleusis
• Hades
• Halls of Zeus
• Mount Helicon
• Mysia
• Olympus
• Phoenicia
• Thrace
• Vintage scene

Themes

• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Underworld
• War