Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Children of Pontus (Hesiodic Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Sea’s brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Pontus’s offspring)
• Phorcys and Ceto: Graeae, Gorgons, and Sea-Monster Genealogy
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Phorcid sea-monster line · Hesiodic — Phorcys–Ceto brood (zoom on Graeae/Gorgons)
• Apollo and Daphne
  Olympian gods · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Greek metamorphosis; Greek notices (Parthenius; Pausanias local laurel) thinner than Ovid’s full plot
• Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Nereus, Atlas Holds the Sky)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (apples among Hyperboreans by Atlas; Nereus compelled for guidance; Atlas fetches fruit while Heracles bears the sky; craft-return of the burden; Ladon present as guardian but not slain in this plot)
• Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Heracles Slays the Dragon Himself)
  Heroes — Heracles · Alternate classical (Heracles enters the garden, kills the guardian serpent, and plucks the apples — vs. Atlas as intermediary)
• Medea’s Aid: The Tasks Completed and the Taking of the Fleece
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (drugs; yoking; sown men; dragon lulled or slain; fleece taken)
• Hesperides as Atlas’s Daughters (Genealogy)
  Local and lesser — Atlasid genealogy / western nymphs · Hesiodic (Night-born) vs. mythographic Atlasid

Places appearing with them

• Arabia
• Argo
• Atlas’s western seat
• Caucasus
• Colchis
• Depths where Nereids dwell
• Echidna’s cave beneath the earth
• Edge of Ocean
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Farthest place
• Field of Ares
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Hesperides’ garden
• Illyria
• Land of the Hyperboreans
• Mount Cyllene
• Mycenae
• Ocean’s edge
• Outer sea
• Phasis
• Pytho
• River Echedorus
• River Eridanus
• Shrine of Hecate
• The deep
• Thermydrae
• Thessaly

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• War