Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (9)

• Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Hyperion and Theia: Helios, Selene, and Eos
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan luminous genealogy · Hesiodic — Hyperion–Theia brood
• Helios Tells Demeter about Persephone
  Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Helios · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Helios as all-seeing revealer)
• Homeric Hymn to Helios (31)
  Olympian gods — Helios / solar hymn · Homeric Hymn XXXI — praise and genealogy of the Sun
• Homeric Hymn to Selene (32)
  Olympian gods — Selene / lunar hymn · Homeric Hymn XXXII — praise of the Moon; birth of Pandia
• Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis; Cattle of Helios (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 12 (+ Apollodorean)
• Cattle of Helios on Thrinacia (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Thrinacia sacrilege and shipwreck isolated from *Odyssey* 12
• Tiresias’s Prophecy of the Inland Oar (*Odyssey* 11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nekyia / nostos beyond Ithaca · Homeric — Poseidon’s wrath; Helios’s cattle warning; oar mistaken for winnowing-fan; gentle death from the sea
• Pasiphaë and the Bull
  Local and lesser — Cretan / Minos cycle · Apollodorean (Poseidon’s bull; Daedalus’s cow; birth of the Minotaur)

Places appearing with them

• Boundless earth
• Circe’s land
• Earth
• Earth and Olympus
• Gates of Hades
• Helios’s heavenly seat
• Inland place far from sea
• Mycenae
• Night sky
• Oenone
• Ogygia
• Olympus
• Open sea after Thrinacia
• Plain of Nysa
• Secret place of Earth
• Sirens’ island
• Strait of Scylla and Charybdis
• Styx
• The deep
• The surging sea
• Thrinacia
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Castration
• Divine Council
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War