Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Oceanus, Tethys, and the Oceanids (Hesiodic Overview)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / watery catalogue · Hesiodic catalogue
• Poseidon and Amphitrite: Marriage of the Sea-Queen
  Olympian gods — Poseidon / Nereid queenship · Hesiodic genealogy + Apollodorean / handbook marriage; Delphinus aid
• Artemis Asks Zeus for Eternal Virginity (Callimachus)
  Olympian gods — Artemis / childhood petition · Callimachean Hymn — child Artemis’s boons from Zeus
• 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)
• Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Heracles Slays the Dragon Himself)
  Heroes — Heracles · Alternate classical (Heracles enters the garden, kills the guardian serpent, and plucks the apples — vs. Atlas as intermediary)

Places appearing with them

• Arabia
• Atlas’s waters or Ocean
• Caucasus
• Crete
• Earth’s rivers and springs
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Farthest place
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Illyria
• Land of the Hyperboreans
• Mountains, harbors, cities
• Mycenae
• Ocean
• Olympus
• Outer sea
• River Echedorus
• River Eridanus
• Styx
• The deep
• Thermydrae

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• War