Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Homeric Hymns to the Dioscuri (17 and 33)
  Olympian gods — Dioscuri / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns XVII and XXXIII — Tyndarids as horse-tamers and saviors of sailors
• Hecuba Transformed into a Dog
  Trojan — Sack aftermath / Hecuba end · Euripidean prophecy + Ovid-labeled metamorphosis / Cynossema aetiology
• Gemini: The Dioscuri among the Stars (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Spartan twins · Catasterismic / Homeric–Pindaric — Castor and Polydeuces as Gemini

Places appearing with them

• Achaean ships
• Cynossema
• Islands of the Blessed
• Mycenae
• Open sea
• Path of the sun
• Sea-shore
• Tartarus
• Taygetus

Themes

• Birth
• Hospitality
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice