Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• 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)
• Pandora and the Jar
  Cosmogony / Theogony (origins of human ills) · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* (named Pandora; jar/pithos of evils; Hope remaining)
• Atlas Condemned to Hold the Heavens
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan punishment · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (sky-burden as Zeus’s sentence after the Titan war)
• Children of Iapetus: Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, Epimetheus
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue of Iapetus and Clymene

Places appearing with them

• Before the Hesperides
• Borders of the earth
• Boundless earth
• Earth
• Erebus
• Fragrant altars
• Hollow fennel-stalk
• Islands of the Blessed
• Mecone
• Ocean’s streams
• Ogygia
• Olympus
• Pillars of heaven and earth
• Secret place of Earth
• Tartarus
• The surging sea
• Western edge of the earth

Themes

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