Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Imprisonment of the Titans and the Warders of Tartarus
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Division of the Cosmos among Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Homeric / Apollodorean (lots among the three brothers)
• Prometheus: The Trick at Mecone, the Theft of Fire, and His Binding
  Cosmogony / Theogony (divine–human settlement) · Hesiodic (merged *Theogony* and *Works and Days* fire narrative; woman-as-price summarized here; jar episode in separate Pandora entry)
• Pandora and the Jar
  Cosmogony / Theogony (origins of human ills) · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* (named Pandora; jar/pithos of evils; Hope remaining)
• Birth of the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — children of Gaia and Uranus · Hesiodic — three Cyclopes and three Hundred-Handers before the Titans’ castration-plot
• Two Kinds of Eris (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic ethics / personified Strife · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* distinction of good and bad Eris
• Dike and the Just City (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic ethics / Justice · Hesiodic — Dike among mortals; just vs unjust cities

Characters in shared stories

• Alcmene
• Aphrodite
• Arges
• Artemis
• Athena
• Atlas
• Briareos
• Brontes
• Brontes, Steropes, Arges
• Clymene
• Coeus
• Cottus
• Cottus, Briareos (Aegaeon), Gyes
• Crius
• Cronus
• Cymopolea
• Elpis
• Epimetheus
• Erinyes
• Gaia
• Giants
• Gyes
• Hades
• Hephaestus
• Heracles
• Hermes
• Hesperides
• Hundred-Handers
• Hyperion
• Iapetus
• Iris
• Kings
• Meliae
• Menoetius
• Mnemosyne
• Mortal men
• Oceanus
• Olympian gods
• Pallas
• Pandora