Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (6)

• Zeus’s Rise: Liberation of the Siblings and First Allies
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean detail on Metis’s drug and Cyclopes’ gifts)
• Oceanus, Tethys, and the Oceanids (Hesiodic Overview)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / watery catalogue · Hesiodic catalogue
• Iris the Messenger (Iliad)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — divine agents / Olympian household · Homeric (*Iliad*) — Iris as go-between; Hesiodic genealogy noted
• Styx and the Gods’ Oath (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — divine law / river of oath · Hesiodic — Styx’s water as the immortals’ binding oath
• Crius and Eurybia: Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan genealogy · Hesiodic — Crius–Eurybia brood and their children
• The Topography of Tartarus (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld geography / cosmic architecture · Hesiodic — Tartarus’s measures, gates, and residents beyond Titan imprisonment alone

Places appearing with them

• Borders of earth
• Bronze fence and Poseidon’s gates
• Cosmos
• Earth’s rivers and springs
• Golden jug
• Halls of Sleep and Death
• High rock
• House of Hades and Persephone
• House of Night and Day
• House of Styx
• Mount Ida
• Ocean
• Olympus
• Parnassus
• Pytho
• Sky and dawn
• Styx
• Tartarus
• Troy
• Underworld
• Wide-pathed Earth

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Succession
• Underworld
• War