Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (14)

• Typhon Against Zeus (Apollodorus)
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Apollodorean (substantially different combat narrative from Hesiodic Typhoeus)
• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• Pandora and the Jar
  Cosmogony / Theogony (origins of human ills) · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* (named Pandora; jar/pithos of evils; Hope remaining)
• Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Flood and the Stones
  Cosmogony / Theogony — flood anthropogony (Hellenic renewal) · Apollodorean (main handbook flood; Parnassus; “bones of the mother”)
• 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)
• Birth and Early Exploits of Hermes: Cattle Theft, Lyre, and Reconciliation with Apollo
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Hermes
• Birth of Dionysus: Semele, the Thunderbolt, and Zeus’s Thigh
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean / tragic (common classical Semele–thigh birth; Euripidean background)
• Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter
• Ares and Aphrodite Caught by Hephaestus
  Olympian gods · Homeric — Demodocus’s song in *Odyssey* 8
• Hermes as Psychopomp: Leading the Suitors’ Shades
  Olympian gods · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24
• Zeus and Io
  Olympian gods / Argive · Apollodorean Argive (cow; Argus; gadfly; Egypt; Epaphus); Aeschylean tragic enrichment
• Hermes Kills Argus (Argeiphontes)
  Olympian gods / Argive · Apollodorean Argive exploit (Hermes as Argus-slayer); Aeschylean / Ovidian scenic enrichment labeled where Roman
• Anchises and Aphrodite (Homeric Hymn V)
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Trojan ancestry · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (5) — full classical narrative
• Delphi and the Murder of Laius at the Crossroads
  Theban · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (Phocian / Daulian crossroads)

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Banks of the river Trito
• Bosporus
• Callichoron
• Caucasus
• Cilicia
• Corinth
• Crete
• Crossroads in Phocis
• Cyprus
• Earth
• Egypt
• Eleusis
• Gates of the Sun
• Greece
• Heaven
• Hephaestus’s house on Olympus
• Hollow fennel-stalk
• Ionian Sea
• Ithaca
• Land of Dreams
• Lycia
• Meadow of asphodel
• Mount Casius
• Mount Cyllene
• Mount Etna
• Mount Haemus
• Mount Parnassus
• Nymphs’ mountain dwellings
• Nysa
• Ocean’s stream
• Ocean’s streams
• Olympus
• Onchestus
• Opus
• Parthenion
• Plain of Nysa
• Pylos
• Pytho
• Rarian Field
• River Alpheus
• River Triton
• Road to Thebes
• Scheria
• Sicilian sea
• Temple of Themis
• The deep
• Thebes
• Thorikos
• Thrace
• Troy
• Underworld
• White Rock
• Zeus’s thigh

Themes

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