Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Children of Nyx (Hesiodic Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night and her brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Night’s offspring)
• The Moirae as Daughters of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Fates · Hesiodic — Moirae born of Nyx (parallel to Zeus–Themis line)
• The Keres: Death-Spirits of Night (Hesiod and Homer)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / battlefield death · Hesiodic catalogue + Homeric battlefield Keres
• Moros: Doom, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified doom · Hesiodic — Moros (Doom) among Nyx’s first-born
• Zeus and Themis: The Hours and the Fates (Hesiod)
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / order and law · Hesiodic

Places appearing with them

• Assembly
• Beyond Ocean
• Mortal cities
• Night’s generative darkness
• Night’s realm
• Pytho
• Underworld
• World of mortals

Themes

• Birth
• Castration
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Underworld
• War