Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (12)

• Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Oceanus, Tethys, and the Oceanids (Hesiodic Overview)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / watery catalogue · Hesiodic catalogue
• Styx and the Gods’ Oath (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — divine law / river of oath · Hesiodic — Styx’s water as the immortals’ binding oath
• 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 Geryon: Chrysaor and Callirhoe
  Cosmogony / Theogony — monstrous genealogy / Geryon’s origin · Hesiodic — Chrysaor and Oceanid Callirhoe beget three-bodied Geryon
• Hephaestus Cast from Heaven by Hera
  Olympian gods · Homeric — Hera casts the lame child (Iliad 18)
• Styx Allies Zeus: Nike, Kratos, Bia, and Zelos
  Olympian gods — divine household / Titanomachy rewards · Hesiodic — Styx’s primacy and her children’s seats beside Zeus
• Zeus and Eurynome: Birth of the Charites (Graces)
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / Charites · Hesiodic — Eurynome daughter of Oceanus
• Birth of Chiron: Cronus and Philyra
  Olympian gods / Titan periphery — Chiron’s origin · Apollodorean / Hellenistic handbook — Cronus as horse; Philyra; centaur sage
• Aesacus and Hesperia (Ovid-Labeled)
  Heroes — Trojan royal house / bird metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Trojan prince’s dive and seabird change; brief Greek genealogical notices of Aesacus
• Clytie: The Heliotrope (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — solar metamorphosis / Oceanid · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Helios–Clytie lore; Greek heliotropism as natural aetiology background
• Delphinus: The Dolphin of Poseidon and Amphitrite (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Poseidon’s marriage · Catasterismic handbook — dolphin that won Amphitrite for Poseidon

Places appearing with them

• Argo
• Boundless earth
• Earth
• Earth’s rivers and springs
• Erytheia
• Field of the Titanomachy
• Golden jug
• Hephaestus’s bronze house
• High rock
• Hollow cave by Ocean
• Islands of the Blessed
• Linden
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Pelion
• Ocean
• Ocean stream
• Oceanus’s stream
• Olympus
• Olympus or Poseidon’s undersea hall
• Open ground of Clytie’s vigil
• Orchamus’s realm
• Path of the sun
• Sea-cliff
• Secret place of Earth
• Styx
• The deep
• The surging sea
• Troy
• Underworld

Themes

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