Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• The Idaean Dactyls
  Local and lesser — Cretan / Phrygian metalworkers / Rhea’s attendants · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / Pausanian / Strabo — Dactyls as first ironworkers and mystic helpers
• Olympia’s Older Foundations: Idaean Dactyls and Pelops (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Eleian / Olympia cult aetiology · Pausanian — pre-Heraclean foundations of the Olympic games
• Cronus’s Hill at Olympia and the Local Zeus-Birth (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Eleian / Olympia sacred topography · Pausanian — Cronius hill; local claim that Rhea bore Zeus at Olympia

Places appearing with them

• Aegae
• Cretan Ida
• Elis
• Hill of Cronus (Cronius) at Olympia
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Pelopion
• Troy

Themes

• Birth
• Sacrifice
• Succession