Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Asteria Becomes Delos (Ortygia)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / Delian aetiology · Apollodorean / Callimachean / mythographic (quail / star → island)
• Coeus and Phoebe: Leto and Asteria
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan oracular / Delian line · Hesiodic — Coeus–Phoebe daughters
• Dioscuri: Castor’s Death and Shared Immortality
  Olympian gods / Spartan Dioscuri · Homeric / Pindaric / Apollodorean (cattle raid; Idas and Lynceus; alternate days)
• Abduction of the Leucippides
  Heroes / Spartan — Dioscuri / Apharetidae rivalry · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Cypria — Phoebe and Hilaeira carried off

Places appearing with them

• Amyclae
• Boundless earth
• Earth
• Messenia
• Olympus
• Olympus and Hades
• Ortygia
• Pytho
• Secret place of Earth
• The deep
• The surging sea

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Castration
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Theft
• Underworld
• War