Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (9)

• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• Ganymede Abducted by Zeus
  Olympian gods / Trojan royal house · Homeric / Homeric Hymn / Apollodorean (eagle or gods; cupbearer; immortality)
• Hebe: Cupbearer of the Gods
  Olympian gods — Hebe / divine household service · Homeric / Hesiodic — Hebe pours nectar; later wife of Heracles
• Homeric Hymn to Heracles the Lion-Hearted (15)
  Olympian gods / heroes — Heracles / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XV — birth, labours summary, Olympian seat
• Apotheosis of Heracles and Marriage to Hebe
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Homeric (immortality after the pyre; reconciliation with Hera; marriage to Hebe; Olympian seat)
• Medea Rejuvenates Aeson (Ovid-Labeled)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus return) · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Medea’s true rejuvenation of Aeson — distinct from Pelias’s false boiling (074)
• Shade of Heracles in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Heracles / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — eidolon in Hades while the god feasts on Olympus
• Iolaus Rejuvenated by Hebe
  Heroes — Heraclidae / Euripidean miracle · Euripidean *Heraclidae* — aged Iolaus prays; Hebe and Zeus restore his youth for battle
• Aquarius: Ganymede the Water-Bearer (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Ganymede · Catasterismic handbook — Ganymede as Aquarius

Places appearing with them

• Altars of Hecate and Youth
• Assembly
• Banks of the river Trito
• Bronze cauldron
• Chariot of Iolaus
• Earth and sea
• Edge of Ocean
• Eleusis
• Hades
• Heaven
• House of Zeus
• Iolcus
• Lycia
• Mount Oeta
• Olympus
• Path of the sun
• Rhamnus
• Thessalian countryside
• Troy
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Underworld
• War