Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• 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
• Geras: Old Age, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified old age · Hesiodic — Geras among Nyx’s children
• Binding of Prometheus (Aeschylean)
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s order / Prometheus · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Prometheus Bound* (distinct from Hesiodic binding)

Places appearing with them

• Assembly
• Night’s generative darkness
• Night’s realm
• Olympus
• Scythian cliff
• Sky, winds, rivers, earth, sun
• World of mortals

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Exile
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War