Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Children of Pontus (Hesiodic Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Sea’s brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Pontus’s offspring)
• Nereus and the Nereids (Hesiodic / Apollodorean Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Pontus’s line / sea nymphs · Hesiodic catalogue (+ Apollodorean Nereid list)
• Poseidon and Amphitrite: Marriage of the Sea-Queen
  Olympian gods — Poseidon / Nereid queenship · Hesiodic genealogy + Apollodorean / handbook marriage; Delphinus aid
• Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Nereus, Atlas Holds the Sky)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (apples among Hyperboreans by Atlas; Nereus compelled for guidance; Atlas fetches fruit while Heracles bears the sky; craft-return of the burden; Ladon present as guardian but not slain in this plot)
• Heracles Wrestles Nereus for the Way to the Hesperides
  Heroes — Heracles / Eleventh Labor prelude · Apollodorean — Old Man of the Sea wrestled for directions

Places appearing with them

• Arabia
• Atlas’s waters or Ocean
• Caucasus
• Depths where Nereids dwell
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Halls of Nereus
• Illyria
• Land of the Hyperboreans
• Mycenae
• Oceanus’s circuit
• Ocean’s edge
• Olympus
• Outer sea
• River Echedorus
• River Eridanus
• Seashore
• The deep
• Thermydrae
• Trojan shore

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession