Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (14)

• Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Flood and the Stones
  Cosmogony / Theogony — flood anthropogony (Hellenic renewal) · Apollodorean (main handbook flood; Parnassus; “bones of the mother”)
• The Moirae as Daughters of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Fates · Hesiodic — Moirae born of Nyx (parallel to Zeus–Themis line)
• Birth of Apollo (and Artemis) on Delos
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn — Delian (standard Delian birth of Apollo; Artemis noted at Ortygia)
• Apollo, the Python, and the Founding of Delphi
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn (Pythian) / Apollodorean
• Zeus and Themis: The Hours and the Fates (Hesiod)
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / order and law · Hesiodic
• Zeus and Eurynome: Birth of the Charites (Graces)
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / Charites · Hesiodic — Eurynome daughter of Oceanus
• Thetis’s Prophecy: Zeus and Poseidon Renounce Her
  Olympian gods — Zeus / Poseidon / Thetis; Achillean prelude · Pindaric / Apollodorean — son destined to be mightier than his father
• Homeric Hymn to Ares (8)
  Olympian gods — Ares / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn VIII — praise and ethical petition to Ares
• Homeric Hymn to Zeus (23)
  Olympian gods — Zeus / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXIII — brief praise of Zeus as counsel and Themis’s consort
• Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Nereus, Atlas Holds the Sky)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (apples among Hyperboreans by Atlas; Nereus compelled for guidance; Atlas fetches fruit while Heracles bears the sky; craft-return of the burden; Ladon present as guardian but not slain in this plot)
• Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: Eris and the Apple of Discord
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Pindaric wedding background)
• Zeus Lifts the Ban: The Gods May Fight (*Iliad* 20)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 20 · Homeric — revocation of the Book 8 ban; theomachy begins

Places appearing with them

• Arabia
• Assembly
• Banks of the river Trito
• Boundless earth
• Caucasus
• Crete
• Crisa
• Earth
• Edge of Ocean
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Greece
• Heaven
• House of Zeus
• Illyria
• Inopus
• Land of the Hyperboreans
• Lands and islands of Leto’s wandering
• Mortal cities
• Mount Cynthus
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Parnassus
• Mount Pelion
• Mycenae
• Night’s realm
• Oceanus’s stream
• Olympus
• Opus
• Oracular chasm
• Ortygia
• Outer sea
• Pytho
• River Echedorus
• River Eridanus
• Secret place of Earth
• Spring at Pytho
• Starry heaven
• Tempe
• Temple of Themis
• The deep
• The surging sea
• Thermydrae
• Thessaly
• Troy
• Underworld
• World of mortals

Themes

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