Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Reign of Cronus, the Swallowing of the Children, and the Birth of Zeus
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean Cretan enrichment clearly marked)
• Zeus’s Rise: Liberation of the Siblings and First Allies
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean detail on Metis’s drug and Cyclopes’ gifts)
• Rhea’s Stone: Cronus Swallowing the Omphalos-Substitute
  Cosmogony / Theogony — birth of Zeus / Delphic aetiology · Hesiodic (+ Pausanian Delphic omphalos notice)

Places appearing with them

• Cave of Dicte
• Crete
• Lyctus
• Mount Aegeum
• Mount Ida
• Olympus
• Parnassus
• Pytho
• Tartarus
• Titan household
• Wide-pathed Earth

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Succession
• Underworld
• War