Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Pandora and the Jar
  Cosmogony / Theogony (origins of human ills) · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* (named Pandora; jar/pithos of evils; Hope remaining)
• Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Flood and the Stones
  Cosmogony / Theogony — flood anthropogony (Hellenic renewal) · Apollodorean (main handbook flood; Parnassus; “bones of the mother”)

Places appearing with them

• Earth
• Greece
• Hollow fennel-stalk
• Mount Parnassus
• Ocean’s streams
• Olympus
• Opus
• Temple of Themis

Themes

• Creation
• Divine Council
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• War