Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Children of Pontus (Hesiodic Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Sea’s brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Pontus’s offspring)
• Iris the Messenger (Iliad)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — divine agents / Olympian household · Homeric (*Iliad*) — Iris as go-between; Hesiodic genealogy noted
• Iris and the Harpies: Children of Thaumas
  Olympian gods / sea-born messengers — Thaumas’s line · Hesiodic — Iris and the Harpies as siblings from Thaumas and Electra
• Phineus and the Harpies; the Boreads; Advice for the Symplegades
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (blind seer; Harpies driven off; guidance for the Clashing Rocks)

Places appearing with them

• Air
• Colchis
• Depths where Nereids dwell
• House of Phineus
• Mount Ida
• Ocean’s edge
• Olympus
• Strophades
• Styx
• Symplegades
• The deep
• Troy

Themes

• Birth
• Divine Council
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Underworld
• War