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
• Ophion and Eurynome: Alternative Primordial Rule
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic / early alternative pair · Orphic / Apollonian (Orpheus’s song) — Ophion and Eurynome before Cronus and Rhea
• Hephaestus Cast from Heaven by Hera
  Olympian gods · Homeric — Hera casts the lame child (Iliad 18)
• Zeus and Eurynome: Birth of the Charites (Graces)
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / Charites · Hesiodic — Eurynome daughter of Oceanus
• Helios and Leucothoe (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Helios / metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Helios’s love for Leucothoe (and Clytie’s betrayal)

Places appearing with them

• Argo
• Banks of the river Trito
• Eastern kingdom of Orchamus
• Heaven
• Hephaestus’s bronze house
• Hollow cave by Ocean
• Mount Helicon
• Oceanus’s stream
• Olympus
• Open field
• Styx
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Castration
• Creation
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Succession
• Underworld
• War