Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• 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
• Phaethon and the Sun Chariot
  Olympian gods / Helios · Euripidean fragments + Roman transmission (Ovid) of the sun-chariot fall
• Atalanta: Birth, Exposure, and the Bear
  Heroes — Atalanta · Apollodorean Arcadian (Iasus; exposure; bear; hunters; vow of virginity)
• Iris Summons Helen to the Wall (*Iliad* 3)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — Iris (as Laodice) fetches Helen for the teichoscopia
• The Heliades: Amber Tears
  Local and lesser — Helios / Phaethon aftermath / aetiology of amber · Ovid-labeled Roman fullest narrative + Greek tragic/fragmentary and handbook notices

Places appearing with them

• Banks of Eridanus
• Banks of the Eridanus
• Before the Hesperides
• Borders of the earth
• Calydon
• Earth
• Erebus
• Eridanus
• Ethiopia
• Fragrant altars
• Helen’s chamber in Troy
• Islands of the Blessed
• Mecone
• Mount Helicon
• Ogygia
• Olympus
• Palace of Helios in the east
• Path of the sun
• Pillars of heaven and earth
• Plain before Troy
• Tartarus
• The deep
• Wall of Troy
• Western edge of the earth

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Exile
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War