Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Homeric Hymn to Selene (32)
  Olympian gods — Selene / lunar hymn · Homeric Hymn XXXII — praise of the Moon; birth of Pandia
• Homeric Hymns to the Dioscuri (17 and 33)
  Olympian gods — Dioscuri / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns XVII and XXXIII — Tyndarids as horse-tamers and saviors of sailors
• Homeric Hymn to the Muses and Apollo (25)
  Olympian gods — Muses / Apollo / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXV — from the Muses and Apollo come singers and lyre-players
• Hippocrene: Pegasus and the Muses’ Spring
  Olympian gods — Muses / Heliconian cult topography · Hesiodic naming + Pausanian aetiology — horse’s hoof opens the spring
• Death of Orpheus: The Maenads
  Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean / Pausanian (torn by Thracian/Macedonian women or Maenads; head and lyre)

Places appearing with them

• Hippocrene
• Lesbos
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Pangaeum
• Night sky
• Olympus
• Open sea
• Permessus
• River Hebrus
• Styx
• Tartarus
• Taygetus
• Underworld

Themes

• Birth
• Divine Council
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Underworld
• War