Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter
• Demeter Nurses Demophon: Celeus and Metaneira (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Demeter / Eleusinian prelude · Homeric Hymn to Demeter — Demophon episode (distinct from Triptolemus grain-mission)
• Telegony: Telegonus Kills Odysseus (Epic Cycle End)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle close / post-*Odyssey* · Epic Cycle — *Telegony* (Proclus summary; Eugammon of Cyrene attrib.)

Places appearing with them

• Callichoron
• Circe’s land
• Crete
• Eleusis
• Ithaca
• Olympus
• Parthenion
• Plain of Nysa
• Rarian Field
• Temple and altar below the city
• The deep
• Thesprotia
• Thorikos
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War