Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Zeus’s Rise: Liberation of the Siblings and First Allies
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean detail on Metis’s drug and Cyclopes’ gifts)
• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• Birth of Athena from Zeus’s Head (Metis Swallowed)
  Olympian gods · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (same Metis-swallowing lineage; birth-delivery detail from Apollodorus and related classical notices)
• Zeus and Themis: The Hours and the Fates (Hesiod)
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / order and law · Hesiodic

Places appearing with them

• Banks of the river Trito
• Heaven
• Mortal cities
• Olympus
• Parnassus
• Pytho
• River Triton
• Tartarus
• Underworld
• Wide-pathed Earth

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Succession
• Underworld
• War