Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Birth of Pan (Homeric Hymn 19)
  Olympian gods / rustic — Pan · Homeric Hymn to Pan (19)
• Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (1) — Fragment
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / fragmentary Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn I — disputed birthplaces; Zeus and the god’s glory
• Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Nereus, Atlas Holds the Sky)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (apples among Hyperboreans by Atlas; Nereus compelled for guidance; Atlas fetches fruit while Heracles bears the sky; craft-return of the burden; Ladon present as guardian but not slain in this plot)
• Aristaeus, the Bees, and Eurydice (Vergil-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — pastoral / bee aetiology; Orphic hinge · Roman primary narrative (Vergil, *Georgics* 4) of a Greek hero (Aristaeus); Greek notices of Aristaeus as pastoral culture-hero noted

Places appearing with them

• Arabia
• Caucasus
• Contested birthplaces
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Gates of Hades
• Hives of Aristaeus
• Illyria
• Land of the Hyperboreans
• Mount Cyllene
• Mountain peaks, ridges, rocky paths
• Mycenae
• Outer sea
• River Echedorus
• River Eridanus
• River Peneus
• Riverbank of Eurydice’s flight
• Secret mountain
• Streams and thickets
• Thermydrae
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• War