Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (14)

• 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)
• Children of Nyx (Hesiodic Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night and her brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Night’s offspring)
• Atlas Condemned to Hold the Heavens
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan punishment · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (sky-burden as Zeus’s sentence after the Titan war)
• Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Nereus, Atlas Holds the Sky)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (apples among Hyperboreans by Atlas; Nereus compelled for guidance; Atlas fetches fruit while Heracles bears the sky; craft-return of the burden; Ladon present as guardian but not slain in this plot)
• Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Heracles Slays the Dragon Himself)
  Heroes — Heracles · Alternate classical (Heracles enters the garden, kills the guardian serpent, and plucks the apples — vs. Atlas as intermediary)
• Ariadne on Naxos: Abandonment and Dionysus
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean main line (Theseus leaves Ariadne on Naxos/Dia; Dionysus takes her); alternate classical strands noted
• Circe’s Purification; Libya and Triton’s Gift (Return Voyage)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian return (Circe cleanses kin-blood; later Libyan shoals and Triton)
• Heracles Frees Prometheus
  Heroes — Heracles / Titan aftermath · Apollodorean (eagle slain; bonds loosed; Chiron’s immortality traded) — liberation focus
• Heracles Wrestles Nereus for the Way to the Hesperides
  Heroes — Heracles / Eleventh Labor prelude · Apollodorean — Old Man of the Sea wrestled for directions
• Dardanus: Zeus, Electra, and the Founding of Dardania
  Heroes — Trojan royal stemma / Dardanid origins · Apollodorean / Homeric genealogical — Dardanus son of Zeus and Electra (Atlas)
• Aesacus and Hesperia (Ovid-Labeled)
  Heroes — Trojan royal house / bird metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Trojan prince’s dive and seabird change; brief Greek genealogical notices of Aesacus
• Alpheus and Arethusa
  Local and lesser — Arcadian / Sicilian spring aetiology · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek river–spring myth; Pindaric and Pausanian Greek notices
• The Pleiades: Daughters of Atlas (and Orion’s Pursuit)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook (Eratosthenes / Hyginus)
• Hesperides as Atlas’s Daughters (Genealogy)
  Local and lesser — Atlasid genealogy / western nymphs · Hesiodic (Night-born) vs. mythographic Atlasid

Places appearing with them

• Arabia
• Assembly
• Atlas’s western seat
• Before the Hesperides
• Beyond Ocean
• Borders of the earth
• Caucasus
• Circe’s land
• Cyprus
• Dardania
• Earth
• Egypt
• Erebus
• Ethiopia
• Farthest place
• Fragrant altars
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Illyria
• Islands of the Blessed
• Lake Tritonis
• Land of the Hyperboreans
• Malea
• Mecone
• Mount Etna
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Naxos
• Night’s realm
• Ocean’s edge
• Oenone
• Ogygia
• Olympia
• Olympus
• Outer sea
• Pillars of heaven and earth
• River Echedorus
• River Eridanus
• Samothrace
• Sea path from Tritonis
• Sea-cliff
• Seashore
• Tartarus
• The deep
• Thermydrae
• Troy
• Underground
• Underworld
• World of mortals

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Castration
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• Underworld
• War