Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (22)

• Typhoeus Against Zeus (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• Prometheus: The Trick at Mecone, the Theft of Fire, and His Binding
  Cosmogony / Theogony (divine–human settlement) · Hesiodic (merged *Theogony* and *Works and Days* fire narrative; woman-as-price summarized here; jar episode in separate Pandora entry)
• Pandora and the Jar
  Cosmogony / Theogony (origins of human ills) · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* (named Pandora; jar/pithos of evils; Hope remaining)
• Hephaestus Born of Hera Alone (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian generation · Hesiodic — Hera’s parthenogenic birth of Hephaestus in anger at Zeus
• Birth of Athena from Zeus’s Head (Metis Swallowed)
  Olympian gods · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (same Metis-swallowing lineage; birth-delivery detail from Apollodorus and related classical notices)
• Hephaestus Cast from Heaven by Hera
  Olympian gods · Homeric — Hera casts the lame child (Iliad 18)
• Hephaestus Cast from Heaven by Zeus
  Olympian gods · Homeric / Apollodorean — Zeus casts Hephaestus for defending Hera
• Hephaestus’s Revenge: The Golden Throne and Return to Olympus
  Olympian gods · Pausanian / Attic pictorial (with Hyginus transmitting a related Greek comic strand)
• Ares and Aphrodite Caught by Hephaestus
  Olympian gods · Homeric — Demodocus’s song in *Odyssey* 8
• Erichthonius: Hephaestus, Athena, and the Cecropids
  Olympian gods / Attic foundation · Apollodorean / Attic (Hephaestus’s attempt; earth-born child; daughters of Cecrops)
• Marriage of Hephaestus and Aphrodite
  Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Aphrodite · Homeric marital pairing (beyond the net-song) / handbook olympian household
• Zeus Hangs Hera with Anvils (Iliad)
  Olympian gods — Zeus / Hera conflict · Homeric (*Iliad* recalled punishment)
• Hephaestus and Charis (Iliad Marriage)
  Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Charites · Homeric (*Iliad*) / Hesiodic (Aglaia)
• Binding of Prometheus (Aeschylean)
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s order / Prometheus · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Prometheus Bound* (distinct from Hesiodic binding)
• Zeus and Eurynome: Birth of the Charites (Graces)
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / Charites · Hesiodic — Eurynome daughter of Oceanus
• Homeric Hymn to Hephaestus (20)
  Olympian gods — Hephaestus / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XX — praise of the craftsman god with Athena
• Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
• Sixth Labor: The Stymphalian Birds
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (lake birds; Athena’s bronze krotala; flushed and shot)
• Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryon (Helios’s Cup, Orthrus, Erytheia)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Erytheia/Gadira; triple-bodied Geryon; Orthrus and Eurytion; Helios’s golden cup; homeward cattle-drive with Eryx and Hera’s gadfly)
• Road Labor: Periphetes the Club-Bearer
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (first Isthmus labor; Periphetes slain with his own club)
• Road Labor: Cercyon the Wrestler at Eleusis
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Eleusinian wrestler-king; crushed by Theseus’s skill)

Places appearing with them

• Abderia
• Acropolis of Athens
• Assembly
• Athens, sanctuary of Dionysus
• Banks of the river Trito
• Beaches
• Borders of the earth
• Cyprus
• Dense wood by the lake
• Dim rugged glens of the mount
• Earth
• Eleusis
• Epidauria
• Erebus
• Erytheia
• Fragrant altars
• Heaven
• Hellespont
• Hephaestus’s bronze house
• Hephaestus’s bronze house on Olympus
• Hephaestus’s house on Olympus
• Hollow cave by Ocean
• Hollow fennel-stalk
• Ionian Sea
• Libya and Europe
• Liguria
• Lycia
• Mecone
• Misty sea
• Mount Abas
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Cyllene
• Mount Etna
• Mount Helicon
• Mountain slopes
• Mycenae
• Mycenae / Argolid
• Nether parts of the earth
• Oceanus’s stream
• Ocean’s streams
• Olympus
• Pillars of Heracles
• Plain of Eryx
• Rhamnus
• Rhegium
• Ridge beside the lake
• River Anthemus
• River Strymon
• River Triton
• Sanctuary of Artemis at Stymphalus
• Sanctuary of Athena Polias
• Scheria
• Scythian cliff
• Sky, winds, rivers, earth, sun
• Space between heaven and earth
• Styx
• Tartarus
• Tartessus
• Thebes
• Thetis’s path from the sea to Olympus
• Thrace
• Troezen
• Troy
• Tyrrhenia
• Underworld
• Wrestling-place of Cercyon

Themes

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