Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (15)

• Reign of Cronus, the Swallowing of the Children, and the Birth of Zeus
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean Cretan enrichment clearly marked)
• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• Ascalaphus Turned into an Owl
  Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld daimones / Demeter’s vengeance · Apollodorean (+ Ovid-labeled Roman enrichment) — orchard-witness of the pomegranate; Demeter (or Persephone) makes him an owl
• Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter
• Demeter and Triptolemus: The Gift of Grain
  Olympian gods / Eleusinian · Apollodorean / Pausanian Eleusinian (mission of Triptolemus); Homeric Hymn foundation noted as rite-only
• Poseidon and Demeter: Areion and Despoina
  Olympian gods / Arcadian mystery cult · Pausanian Arcadian (Thelpusa / Lycosura); Apollodorean black Demeter notice
• Hecate in Demeter’s Search (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Hecate · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (torch-bearing companion)
• Helios Tells Demeter about Persephone
  Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Helios · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Helios as all-seeing revealer)
• Demeter Nurses Demophon: Celeus and Metaneira (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Demeter / Eleusinian prelude · Homeric Hymn to Demeter — Demophon episode (distinct from Triptolemus grain-mission)
• Persephone Eats the Pomegranate: The Return Bargain
  Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone · Homeric Hymn to Demeter — pomegranate seed and compromise
• Demeter and Iasion: Birth of Plutos (Hesiod)
  Olympian gods — Demeter / agricultural wealth · Hesiodic / Homeric — thrice-ploughed field; Plutos; Zeus’s bolt on Iasion
• Homeric Hymn to Demeter (13)
  Olympian gods — Demeter / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XIII — brief praise of Demeter and Persephone
• Minthe Trampled by Persephone
  Olympian gods — Persephone / Hades / plant aetiology · Strabonian / Oppianic Greek + Ovid-labeled Roman — river-nymph rival; mint plant
• Twelfth Labor: Cerberus and the Descent to Hades (Theseus and Pirithous)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Eleusinian initiation; Taenarum descent; Medusa phantom; Theseus raised, Pirithous left; Cerberus mastered without weapons; ascent via Troezen)
• Tantalus: Crime and Punishment
  Heroes — Tantalids / Pelops · Homeric underworld punishment + Apollodorean crimes (feast of Pelops; theft of nectar/ambrosia)

Places appearing with them

• Amyclae
• Banks of the river Trito
• Callichoron
• Cave of Dicte
• Crete
• Earth and sea
• Earth and sea of the nine days’ search
• Eleusis
• Gates of Acheron
• Gates of Hades
• Hades
• Heaven
• Hecate’s cave
• Helios’s heavenly seat
• Helios’s vantage
• Lycosura
• Lyctus
• Lydia
• Mint beds
• Mount Aegeum
• Mount Cyllene
• Mount Ida
• Mycenae
• Night
• Olympus
• Parthenion
• Phigalia
• Plain of Nysa
• Rarian Field
• Rarian plain
• Rhamnus
• Temple and altar below the city
• The singer’s city
• The wider earth
• Thebes
• Thorikos
• Triphylian Pylus region
• Troezen
• Underworld
• Underworld orchard of Hades

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• Underworld
• War