Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Birth of the Muses (Mnemosyne and Zeus)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian generation / arts · Hesiodic
• Seafaring and the Pleiades (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic star-lore / seafaring · Hesiodic — Pleiades, Sirius, and the season for ships
• Hippocrene: Pegasus and the Muses’ Spring
  Olympian gods — Muses / Heliconian cult topography · Hesiodic naming + Pausanian aetiology — horse’s hoof opens the spring
• Contest of Homer and Hesiod
  Local and lesser — biographical legend of the poets / Chalcidian games · Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi (imperial compilation of classical anecdotes) — King Amphidamas’s funeral games; Hesiod wins

Places appearing with them

• Aulis / Chalcis
• Farmstead
• Halls of Zeus
• Helicon
• Hippocrene
• Mount Helicon
• Olympus
• Permessus
• Wine-dark sea

Themes

• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• War