Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Polyphemus and Galatea (Theocritus, *Idyll* 11)
  Local and lesser — Sicilian / Cyclops love (pre-Odyssean temper) · Theocritean Greek bucolic (Cyclops as rustic lover; no Acis)
• Gardens of Adonis (Athenian Rite)
  Local and lesser — Adonis / Attic women’s ritual · Classical Athenian — Adonia; brief Greek rite (not Roman elegy)

Places appearing with them

• Assembly / harbor
• Cyclops’s cave
• Mount Etna
• Rooftops of Athenian houses
• Shallow pots
• The deep
• Troezen

Themes

• Prophecy
• War