Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (13)

• Children of Nyx (Hesiodic Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night and her brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Night’s offspring)
• The Keres: Death-Spirits of Night (Hesiod and Homer)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / battlefield death · Hesiodic catalogue + Homeric battlefield Keres
• Geras: Old Age, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified old age · Hesiodic — Geras among Nyx’s children
• Hypnos and Thanatos: Sleep and Death, Children of Night
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Sleep and Death · Hesiodic genealogy (+ Homeric twin imagery)
• Moros: Doom, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified doom · Hesiodic — Moros (Doom) among Nyx’s first-born
• The Oneiroi: Dreams, Children of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Dreams · Hesiodic — the tribe of Dreams (Oneiroi) born of Nyx
• The Topography of Tartarus (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld geography / cosmic architecture · Hesiodic — Tartarus’s measures, gates, and residents beyond Titan imprisonment alone
• Alcestis Rescued from Death
  Heroes — Heracles · Euripidean / Apollodorean (Admetus’s postponed death; Alcestis dies in his place; Heracles wrestles Thanatos or brings her back from the grave)
• Talos on Crete
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (bronze guardian; ankle vein; Medea’s defeat of Talos)
• Alcestis’s Death-Day: Thanatos, Farewell, and the House of Mourning (Euripides)
  Heroes — Thessalian / Admetus–Alcestis · Attic tragic — Euripides *Alcestis* (prologue through death and mourning; before Heracles’ return of the wife)
• Hypnos and Thanatos Carry Sarpedon’s Body (Iliad)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian allies / divine escort · Homeric (*Iliad* 16) — Sleep and Death as funeral conveyers
• Kerostasia: Zeus Weighs Hector’s Fate (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric — golden scales decide Hector’s doom
• Sisyphus: Cheating Death and the Rolling Stone
  Local and lesser — Corinthian / underworld punishment · Homeric punishment + Apollodorean / Pherecydian crimes (Thanatos bound; Persephone tricked)

Places appearing with them

• Acrocorinth
• Ankle of Talos
• Assembly
• Beyond Ocean
• Borders of earth
• Bronze fence and Poseidon’s gates
• Burial mound and stele
• Eleusis
• Gates of Hades
• Gates of dreams
• Hades
• Halls of Sleep and Death
• Hearth of Hestia
• 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
• Oenone
• Olympus
• Palace of Admetus at Pherae
• Plain before Troy
• River
• Tartarus
• Thessaly
• Threshold
• Tomb of Alcestis
• World of mortals

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Castration
• Contest
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Underworld
• War