Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Orion: Blinding, Death Variants, and the Stars
  Heroes — Orion · Apollodorean / Homeric / astral (Oenopion; scorpion; Artemis; Eos)
• Orion’s Death and the Scorpion (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orion · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook — scorpion sent by Earth or Artemis
• Scorpius: The Scorpion among the Stars (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orion cycle · Catasterismic handbook — scorpion that killed Orion as Scorpius
• Libra: The Scales (and the Chelae of Scorpius)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Justice / zodiac history · Catasterismic / Aratean — Chelae become Libra; scales of Dike/Astraea

Places appearing with them

• Crete
• Earth / Crete or Chios
• East
• Hades
• Lycia
• Olympus
• Ortygia
• Path of the sun
• Underworld
• Zodiac between Virgo and Scorpius

Themes

• Birth
• Revenge
• Succession
• Underworld
• War