Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Division of the Cosmos among Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Homeric / Apollodorean (lots among the three brothers)
• Children of Pontus (Hesiodic Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Sea’s brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Pontus’s offspring)
• Iris the Messenger (Iliad)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — divine agents / Olympian household · Homeric (*Iliad*) — Iris as go-between; Hesiodic genealogy noted
• Styx and the Gods’ Oath (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — divine law / river of oath · Hesiodic — Styx’s water as the immortals’ binding oath
• The Topography of Tartarus (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld geography / cosmic architecture · Hesiodic — Tartarus’s measures, gates, and residents beyond Titan imprisonment alone
• Birth of Apollo (and Artemis) on Delos
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn — Delian (standard Delian birth of Apollo; Artemis noted at Ortygia)
• Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Places appearing with them

• Borders of earth
• Broad heaven
• Bronze fence and Poseidon’s gates
• Callichoron
• Crete
• Depths where Nereids dwell
• Earth
• Eleusis
• Golden jug
• Grey sea
• Halls of Sleep and Death
• High Olympus
• High rock
• House of Hades and Persephone
• House of Night and Day
• House of Styx
• Inopus
• Lands and islands of Leto’s wandering
• Mount Cynthus
• Mount Ida
• Murky darkness / Hades
• Ocean’s edge
• Olympus
• Ortygia
• Parthenion
• Plain of Nysa
• Rarian Field
• Styx
• Tartarus
• The deep
• Thorikos
• Troy
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Underworld
• War