Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (15)

• Children of Pontus (Hesiodic Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Sea’s brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Pontus’s offspring)
• Phorcys and Ceto: Graeae, Gorgons, and Sea-Monster Genealogy
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Phorcid sea-monster line · Hesiodic — Phorcys–Ceto brood (zoom on Graeae/Gorgons)
• Birth of Geryon: Chrysaor and Callirhoe
  Cosmogony / Theogony — monstrous genealogy / Geryon’s origin · Hesiodic — Chrysaor and Oceanid Callirhoe beget three-bodied Geryon
• Athena and Pallas: Childhood Friend and the Aegis
  Olympian gods / Athena · Apollodorean / Pausanian (Libyan or Tritonian childhood; accidental killing; aegis from skin)
• Poseidon and Medusa in Athena’s Temple
  Olympian gods — Poseidon / Athena / Gorgon origin · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek temple-violation curse aetiology
• Athena and Medusa: The Beauty Curse (Handbook Variant)
  Olympian gods — Athena / Gorgon aetiology · Apollodorean minority notice / handbook beauty-challenge
• Hippocrene: Pegasus and the Muses’ Spring
  Olympian gods — Muses / Heliconian cult topography · Hesiodic naming + Pausanian aetiology — horse’s hoof opens the spring
• Polydectes’s Demand: Hermes and Athena Equip Perseus
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (wedding-gift trick; divine guides and gear)
• Beheading of Medusa: Birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Hesiodic enrichment (Medusa mortal; Pegasus and Chrysaor from the neck)
• Andromeda and the Sea-Monster (Ethiopia)
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean Ethiopian (Cepheus’s Aethiopia; Ammon’s oracle; Phineus petrified)
• Return to Seriphos: Petrification of Polydectes; Dictys Made King
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean (altar refuge; palace petrification; Athena’s shield)
• 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)
• Bellerophon, Pegasus, Further Tasks, and the Fall from Heaven
  Heroes — Bellerophon · Pindaric / Apollodorean (+ Homeric end note): Pegasus tamed; heavenward attempt; wandering end
• Orion: Birth Variants (Apollodorus / Boeotian)
  Heroes — Orion · Apollodorean catalogue of birth variants (+ Homeric parentage notices)
• Stheneboea’s Suicide after Bellerophon’s Rejection (Euripides)
  Heroes — Bellerophon aftermath / tragic heroine · Euripidean (lost *Stheneboea*; reconstructed from fragments and hypothesis)

Places appearing with them

• Amyclae
• Argos
• Athena’s shield
• Athena’s sphere
• Cilicia
• Corinth
• Crete
• Depths where Nereids dwell
• Echidna’s cave beneath the earth
• Edge of Ocean
• Eleusis
• Erytheia
• Ethiopia
• Flight-path of return
• Gates of Acheron
• Gates of Hades
• Hades
• Hesperides’ garden
• Hippocrene
• House of Zeus
• Lycia
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Ocean stream
• Ocean’s edge
• Olympus
• Oracle of Ammon
• Palace of Polydectes
• Path toward the Graeae and Ocean
• Permessus
• Rhamnus
• Seriphos
• Styx
• Temple of Athena
• The deep
• The rock
• Thebes
• Troezen
• Underworld

Themes

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