Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (6)

• Athena and Poseidon Contest for Athens
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean / Attic (Pausanian landmarks)
• Erichthonius: Hephaestus, Athena, and the Cecropids
  Olympian gods / Attic foundation · Apollodorean / Attic (Hephaestus’s attempt; earth-born child; daughters of Cecrops)
• Ares and Halirrhothius: Trial on the Areopagus
  Olympian gods — Ares / Attic aetiology · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic (first murder trial; Areopagus named)
• Cecrops: Earth-Born Founder of Athens
  Heroes — Attic kings / foundation · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic (autochthon; first king; contest judge)
• Cranaus: Attica in the Time of Deucalion’s Flood
  Heroes — Attic kings / flood generation · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic king-list
• Aquarius: Ganymede the Water-Bearer (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Ganymede · Catasterismic handbook — Ganymede as Aquarius

Places appearing with them

• Acropolis
• Acropolis of Athens
• Acte
• Areopagus
• Assembly
• Athens
• Attica / Cecropia
• Erechtheis
• Erechtheum
• House of Zeus
• Lacedaemon
• Olympia
• Pandrosium
• Parnassus
• Path of the sun
• Rhamnus
• Salt spring
• Sanctuary of Athena Polias
• Thriasian plain
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Marriage
• Revenge
• Succession
• War