Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (30)

• Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Reign of Cronus, the Swallowing of the Children, and the Birth of Zeus
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean Cretan enrichment clearly marked)
• The Titanomachy
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Division of the Cosmos among Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Homeric / Apollodorean (lots among the three brothers)
• Rhea’s Stone: Cronus Swallowing the Omphalos-Substitute
  Cosmogony / Theogony — birth of Zeus / Delphic aetiology · Hesiodic (+ Pausanian Delphic omphalos notice)
• Rhea, Amalthea, and the Curetes in Crete
  Cosmogony / Theogony — birth and hiding of Zeus · Apollodorean Cretan enrichment (+ Hesiodic Crete notice)
• Ophion and Eurynome: Alternative Primordial Rule
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic / early alternative pair · Orphic / Apollonian (Orpheus’s song) — Ophion and Eurynome before Cronus and Rhea
• Birth of Apollo (and Artemis) on Delos
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn — Delian (standard Delian birth of Apollo; Artemis noted at Ortygia)
• Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter
• Persephone Eats the Pomegranate: The Return Bargain
  Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone · Homeric Hymn to Demeter — pomegranate seed and compromise
• Birth of Chiron: Cronus and Philyra
  Olympian gods / Titan periphery — Chiron’s origin · Apollodorean / Hellenistic handbook — Cronus as horse; Philyra; centaur sage
• Cyzicus and the Doliones: Friendly King Killed by Mistake
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (hospitality by night; mistaken battle; funeral games)
• Atalanta’s Footrace: Melanion and the Golden Apples
  Heroes — Atalanta · Apollodorean Greek (Melanion; Aphrodite’s apples; metamorphosis into lions)
• Zagreus: Orphic Dionysus Torn by the Titans
  Heroes / Olympian — Orphic Dionysus (labeled **Orphic**; distinct from Hesiodic–tragic Semele birth) · Orphic (Rhapsodic / mystery anthropogony); classical allusions; late summaries
• Mestra: Shape-Shifting Daughter of Erysichthon (Ovid-Labeled)
  Heroes / Thessalian — Erysichthon aftermath · Roman transmission (Ovid) + Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices of Mestra
• Pelops’s Ivory Shoulder
  Heroes — Pelopid origins / restoration after Tantalus’s feast · Apollodorean / Pindaric background — Demeter’s bite; ivory replacement
• Creusa’s Death at Troy (Vergil-Labeled)
  Trojan — Sack / Aeneas escape (Roman transmission) · **Roman** — Vergil, *Aeneid* 2 (labeled); Greek notices of Aeneas’s escape lack this full Creusa episode
• Bones of Pelops Brought to Troy
  Trojan — Little Iliad / fall requirements · Apollodorean / cyclic handbook (Pelops’s bones among the conditions of capture)
• Hermes Orders Calypso to Release Odysseus (*Odyssey* 5)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ogygia · Homeric — Hermes’ embassy and Calypso’s bitter obedience
• Eos and the Immortality of Memnon (*Aethiopis*)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* aftermath · Cyclic — Eos obtains immortality for Memnon from Zeus after Achilles kills him
• Death of Antilochus at Memnon’s Hands (*Aethiopis*)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* · Cyclic / Apollodorean — Memnon kills Antilochus; Achilles avenges him
• Psychostasia: Zeus Weighs Achilles and Memnon
  Trojan — Aethiopis / Aeschylean tragedy / Memnon cycle · Aeschylean *Psychostasia* (lost) + cyclic *Aethiopis* notices — Zeus scales the fates of Achilles and Memnon
• The Memnonides: Birds from Memnon’s Pyre
  Trojan — Memnon aftermath / bird metamorphosis · Ovid-labeled Roman — cinders become fighting birds; annual memorial
• Erysichthon: Demeter’s Punishment
  Local and lesser — Thessalian / Demeter cult · Callimachean (*Hymn* 6 to Demeter); Ovidian enrichment labeled Roman
• Procris and Cephalus (Apollodorus)
  Local and lesser — Attic / Cephallenian marital tragedy · Apollodorean (gifts of Artemis; accidental killing); Pherecydes / tragic fragments
• Eos and Tithonus
  Local and lesser — Dawn / Trojan royal house · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (+ Homeric *Iliad* / *Odyssey* notices; Apollodorean genealogy)
• Iambe / Baubo and Demeter’s Jest
  Local and lesser — Eleusinian / Demeter’s grief (short entry) · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Iambe); Orphic / Eleusinian notices (Baubo)
• Eos and Orion (Love of Dawn)
  Local and lesser — Dawn’s mortal loves / Orion cycle · Homeric / Hesiodic notices (+ Apollodorean / astral frame)
• Eos Abducts Cephalus
  Local and lesser — Dawn’s mortal loves / Attic Cephalus cycle · Euripidean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices / Apollodorean allusion (+ Pausanian)
• Orion’s Death and the Scorpion (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orion · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook — scorpion sent by Earth or Artemis

Places appearing with them

• (Mystery setting
• Amalthea’s pasture
• Argo
• Assembly
• Boundless earth
• Boundless sea
• Broad heaven
• Burning Troy
• Callichoron
• Cauldron of restoration
• Cave of Dicte
• Chamber with shining doors
• Chaos
• Cosmic
• Crete
• Demeter’s sacred grove
• Dim Tartarus
• Earth
• Earth / Crete or Chios
• Eleusis
• Elis
• Eos’s eastern realm
• Erebus
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Gods’ banquet
• Greek camp at Troy
• Grey sea
• Hellespont
• High Olympus
• House of Zeus
• Inopus
• Islands of the Blessed
• Land of the Doliones
• Lands and islands of Leto’s wandering
• Linden
• Lyctus
• Maiden Well / Callichoron
• Memnon’s pyre
• Mount Aegeum
• Mount Cynthus
• Mount Dindymon
• Mount Ida
• Mount Pelion
• Murky darkness / Hades
• Mycenae
• Ocean’s streams
• Ogygia
• Olympus
• Ortygia
• Othrys
• Parthenion
• Plain of Nysa
• Pytho
• Racecourse
• Rarian Field
• Rhamnus
• Sanctuary of Zeus
• Secret place of Earth
• Shore
• Shore of Ogygia
• Styx
• Tartarus
• Temple quarters
• The surging sea
• Thorikos
• Titan household
• Tomb of Cyzicus
• Troad battlefield
• Troezen
• Troy
• Underworld
• Wide Heaven
• Wide-pathed Earth

Themes

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