Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• 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
• Eileithyia: Goddess of Childbirth
  Olympian gods — Hera’s daughter / birth-aid · Hesiodic / Homeric — Eileithyia (or Eileithyiae) as birth-goddess
• Sosipolis at Olympia (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Eleian child-hero / Olympia cult · Pausanian — miraculous child becomes serpent; averts Arcadian invasion

Places appearing with them

• Banks of the river Trito
• Crete
• Elean–Arcadian battlefield
• Heaven
• Inner shrine
• Inopus
• Lands and islands of Leto’s wandering
• Mount Cynthus
• Olympia
• Olympus
• Ortygia
• Sanctuary by Cronus’s hill at Olympia
• Thebes
• Underworld

Themes

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