Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Children of Nyx (Hesiodic Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night and her brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Night’s offspring)
• Nemesis: Daughter of Night (Hesiodic Birth)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / divine retribution · Hesiodic — Nemesis as Night’s daughter (genealogy only)
• Zeus and Leda: Helen and the Dioscuri
  Olympian gods / Spartan / Trojan gateway · Apollodorean / Homeric (swan; eggs; dual paternity of Dioscuri and Helen)
• Zeus and Nemesis: The Egg of Helen (*Cypria*)
  Olympian gods / Trojan prelude — parentage of Helen · Cyclic — *Cypria* (Nemesis pursued; egg; Leda as foster-mother)

Places appearing with them

• Amyclae
• Beyond Ocean
• Cosmic pursuit
• Night’s generative darkness
• Night’s realm
• Rhamnus
• Sparta
• Underworld
• World of mortals

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Castration
• Divine Council
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Underworld
• War