Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Children of Nyx (Hesiodic Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night and her brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Night’s offspring)
• Hypnos and Thanatos: Sleep and Death, Children of Night
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Sleep and Death · Hesiodic genealogy (+ Homeric twin imagery)
• The Topography of Tartarus (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld geography / cosmic architecture · Hesiodic — Tartarus’s measures, gates, and residents beyond Titan imprisonment alone
• Zeus Hangs Hera with Anvils (Iliad)
  Olympian gods — Zeus / Hera conflict · Homeric (*Iliad* recalled punishment)
• Death of Sarpedon (Iliad)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian allies · Homeric (*Iliad* 16)
• Hypnos and Thanatos Carry Sarpedon’s Body (Iliad)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian allies / divine escort · Homeric (*Iliad* 16) — Sleep and Death as funeral conveyers
• Hera’s Deception of Zeus on Ida (Dios Apate, *Iliad* 14)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 14 · Homeric — Dios apate (the Deception of Zeus)
• Hera Bribes Hypnos to Lull Zeus (*Iliad* 14)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Dios apate prelude · Homeric — Sleep’s fear of Zeus; promise of Pasithea; lull on Ida

Places appearing with them

• Achaean
• Achaean council
• Assembly
• Beyond Ocean
• Borders of earth
• Bronze fence and Poseidon’s gates
• Burial mound and stele
• Cos
• Halls of Sleep and Death
• House of Hades and Persephone
• House of Night and Day
• House of Sleep and Death near Tartarus
• House of Styx
• House of Zeus
• Lycia
• Night’s generative darkness
• Night’s realm
• Olympus
• Pine on Ida
• River
• Space between heaven and earth
• Tartarus
• The deep
• Troy
• Underworld
• World of mortals

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Castration
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Marriage
• Revenge
• Underworld
• War