Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (10)

• Hecate’s Privileges (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian settlement / goddess of crossroads · Hesiodic (*Theogony* hymn to Hecate)
• Asteria Becomes Delos (Ortygia)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / Delian aetiology · Apollodorean / Callimachean / mythographic (quail / star → island)
• Crius and Eurybia: Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan genealogy · Hesiodic — Crius–Eurybia brood and their children
• Hecate’s Parentage: Asteria and Perses (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan line / Hecate · Hesiodic — birth from Perses and Asteria
• Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter
• Hecate in Demeter’s Search (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Hecate · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (torch-bearing companion)
• Helios Tells Demeter about Persephone
  Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Helios · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Helios as all-seeing revealer)
• Medea’s Aid: The Tasks Completed and the Taking of the Fleece
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (drugs; yoking; sown men; dragon lulled or slain; fleece taken)
• 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)
• Empusa and the Lamiae
  Local and lesser — daimonic / Hecate’s train; folk-bogey in classical comedy and philosophy · Aristophanic / Philostratean / Diodoran (Empusa; Lamia as child-devouring bogey; Hecate connection)

Places appearing with them

• (No single earthly locale in the parentage passage)
• Altars of Hecate and Youth
• Argo
• Assembly
• Bronze cauldron
• Callichoron
• Colchis
• Cosmic domains
• Cosmos
• Crete
• Earth and sea of the nine days’ search
• Earth, heaven, and sea
• Eleusis
• Ethiopia
• Field of Ares
• Hecate’s cave
• Helios’s heavenly seat
• Helios’s vantage
• Iolcus
• Night
• Olympus
• Ortygia
• Parthenion
• Phasis
• Plain of Nysa
• Rarian Field
• Road to Hades
• Shrine of Hecate
• Sky and dawn
• The deep
• Thessalian countryside
• Thorikos
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• Underworld
• War