Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• Athena and Pallas: Childhood Friend and the Aegis
  Olympian gods / Athena · Apollodorean / Pausanian (Libyan or Tritonian childhood; accidental killing; aegis from skin)
• Poseidon and Amphitrite: Marriage of the Sea-Queen
  Olympian gods — Poseidon / Nereid queenship · Hesiodic genealogy + Apollodorean / handbook marriage; Delphinus aid
• Circe’s Purification; Libya and Triton’s Gift (Return Voyage)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian return (Circe cleanses kin-blood; later Libyan shoals and Triton)
• Euphemus and the Clod of Libya
  Heroes — Argonautica / Theran–Cyrenean colonial charter · Apollonian / Pindaric — Triton gives Euphemus a clod; destiny of Thera and Cyrene

Places appearing with them

• Atlas’s waters or Ocean
• Banks of the river Trito
• Circe’s land
• Ethiopia
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Heaven
• Lake Tritonis
• Olympus
• Rhamnus
• Sea path from Tritonis
• The deep
• Thera
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Underworld
• War