Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Reign of Cronus, the Swallowing of the Children, and the Birth of Zeus
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean Cretan enrichment clearly marked)
• Hestia: Virgin Privilege and the Hearth
  Olympian gods — Hestia · Homeric Hymns — eternal virginity; first and last libations; hearth privilege
• Homeric Hymns to Hestia (24 and 29)
  Olympian gods — Hestia / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns XXIV and XXIX — hearth virgin; first and last libations with Hermes

Places appearing with them

• Cave of Dicte
• Crete
• Houses of gods and men
• Lyctus
• Mortal hearths and temples
• Mount Aegeum
• Mount Ida
• Olympus
• Pytho

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Underworld