Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (15)

• Prometheus: The Trick at Mecone, the Theft of Fire, and His Binding
  Cosmogony / Theogony (divine–human settlement) · Hesiodic (merged *Theogony* and *Works and Days* fire narrative; woman-as-price summarized here; jar episode in separate Pandora entry)
• Pandora and the Jar
  Cosmogony / Theogony (origins of human ills) · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* (named Pandora; jar/pithos of evils; Hope remaining)
• Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Flood and the Stones
  Cosmogony / Theogony — flood anthropogony (Hellenic renewal) · Apollodorean (main handbook flood; Parnassus; “bones of the mother”)
• Atlas Condemned to Hold the Heavens
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan punishment · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (sky-burden as Zeus’s sentence after the Titan war)
• Children of Iapetus: Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, Epimetheus
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue of Iapetus and Clymene
• Birth of Athena from Zeus’s Head (Metis Swallowed)
  Olympian gods · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (same Metis-swallowing lineage; birth-delivery detail from Apollodorus and related classical notices)
• Zeus and Io
  Olympian gods / Argive · Apollodorean Argive (cow; Argus; gadfly; Egypt; Epaphus); Aeschylean tragic enrichment
• Binding of Prometheus (Aeschylean)
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s order / Prometheus · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Prometheus Bound* (distinct from Hesiodic binding)
• Thetis’s Prophecy: Zeus and Poseidon Renounce Her
  Olympian gods — Zeus / Poseidon / Thetis; Achillean prelude · Pindaric / Apollodorean — son destined to be mightier than his father
• Fourth Labor: The Erymanthian Boar (and Pholus among the Centaurs)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (live capture of the boar; Pholus’s hospitality; centaur battle; Chiron’s incurable wound)
• 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)
• Chiron: Wound, Relinquished Immortality, and Teacher of Heroes
  Heroes — Centaur sage / Heracles aftermath / heroic education · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Hydra-arrow wound; immortality ceded; school of heroes)
• Heracles Frees Prometheus
  Heroes — Heracles / Titan aftermath · Apollodorean (eagle slain; bonds loosed; Chiron’s immortality traded) — liberation focus
• Peleus and Thetis: Courtship and Wrestling
  Local and lesser — Thessalian / Achillean prelude (before Trojan wedding) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (shape-shifting Nereid wrestled on the shore)
• Sagittarius: Crotus or Chiron the Archer (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / centaur-archer · Catasterismic handbook — Crotus (Musaean) or Chiron as Sagittarius

Places appearing with them

• Arabia
• Argos
• Before the Hesperides
• Borders of the earth
• Bosporus
• Caucasus
• Deep snow of Erymanthus
• Earth
• Egypt
• Erebus
• Ethiopia
• Fragrant altars
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Greece
• Helicon
• Hollow fennel-stalk
• Illyria
• Ionian Sea
• Islands of the Blessed
• Land of the Hyperboreans
• Malea
• Mecone
• Molossia
• Mount Erymanthus
• Mount Parnassus
• Mount Pelion
• Mycenae
• Ocean’s streams
• Ogygia
• Olympus
• Opus
• Outer sea
• Path of the sun
• Pholoë
• Pillars of heaven and earth
• Psophis
• River Echedorus
• River Eridanus
• River Triton
• Scythian cliff
• Shore
• Sky, winds, rivers, earth, sun
• Tartarus
• Temple of Themis
• The deep
• Thermydrae
• Thessaly
• Western edge of the earth

Themes

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