Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (11)

• The Five Ages of Man (Hesiod, *Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — ages of humankind · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* (five races; Bronze and Heroic ages distinct)
• Hecate’s Privileges (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian settlement / goddess of crossroads · Hesiodic (*Theogony* hymn to Hecate)
• Asteria Becomes Delos (Ortygia)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / Delian aetiology · Apollodorean / Callimachean / mythographic (quail / star → island)
• Crius and Eurybia: Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan genealogy · Hesiodic — Crius–Eurybia brood and their children
• Hecate’s Parentage: Asteria and Perses (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan line / Hecate · Hesiodic — birth from Perses and Asteria
• Two Kinds of Eris (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic ethics / personified Strife · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* distinction of good and bad Eris
• The Hawk and the Nightingale (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic didactic fable / justice · Hesiodic — animal fable (*ainos*) addressed to kings
• Dike and the Just City (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic ethics / Justice · Hesiodic — Dike among mortals; just vs unjust cities
• The Days of Zeus (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic calendar / sacred days · Hesiodic — lucky and unlucky days of the month as Zeus’s ordinance
• Seafaring and the Pleiades (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic star-lore / seafaring · Hesiodic — Pleiades, Sirius, and the season for ships
• Andromeda and the Sea-Monster (Ethiopia)
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean Ethiopian (Cepheus’s Aethiopia; Ammon’s oracle; Phineus petrified)

Places appearing with them

• (No single earthly locale in the parentage passage)
• Assembly
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Cosmic domains
• Cosmos
• Earth
• Earth under Cronus
• Earth, heaven, and sea
• Ethiopia
• Farm and household
• Farmstead
• Human cities
• Islands of the Blessed
• Olympus
• Oracle of Ammon
• Ortygia
• Sky
• Sky and dawn
• The deep
• The just city
• The month
• The rock
• The unjust city
• Thebes
• Troy
• Underworld
• Wine-dark sea

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Underworld
• War