Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Asteria Becomes Delos (Ortygia)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / Delian aetiology · Apollodorean / Callimachean / mythographic (quail / star → island)
• Birth of Apollo (and Artemis) on Delos
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn — Delian (standard Delian birth of Apollo; Artemis noted at Ortygia)
• Leto’s Wanderings Seeking a Birthplace (before Delos)
  Olympian gods — Leto / birth of Apollo and Artemis · Homeric Hymn / Apollodorean / Callimachean enrichment

Places appearing with them

• Crete
• Inopus
• Lands and islands of Leto’s wandering
• Mount Cynthus
• Olympus
• Ortygia
• The deep

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Theft
• War