Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Primordial Beginnings: Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Erebus and Nyx: Birth of Aether and Hemera
  Cosmogony / Theogony — primordial pairs / Day and bright air · Hesiodic — Aether and Day born of Night and Erebus
• The Topography of Tartarus (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld geography / cosmic architecture · Hesiodic — Tartarus’s measures, gates, and residents beyond Titan imprisonment alone

Places appearing with them

• Borders of earth
• Bronze fence and Poseidon’s gates
• Halls of Sleep and Death
• House of Hades and Persephone
• House of Night and Day
• House of Styx
• Mountain glens
• Olympus
• Primordial cosmos
• Tartarus
• The deep
• Wide-pathed Earth

Themes

• Birth
• Creation
• Divine Council
• Underworld
• War