Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (9)

• The Five Ages of Man (Hesiod, *Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — ages of humankind · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* (five races; Bronze and Heroic ages distinct)
• Atlas Condemned to Hold the Heavens
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan punishment · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (sky-burden as Zeus’s sentence after the Titan war)
• Eos and Tithonus
  Local and lesser — Dawn / Trojan royal house · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (+ Homeric *Iliad* / *Odyssey* notices; Apollodorean genealogy)
• Eos and Orion (Love of Dawn)
  Local and lesser — Dawn’s mortal loves / Orion cycle · Homeric / Hesiodic notices (+ Apollodorean / astral frame)
• Eos Abducts Cephalus
  Local and lesser — Dawn’s mortal loves / Attic Cephalus cycle · Euripidean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices / Apollodorean allusion (+ Pausanian)
• Isles of the Blessed and Elysian Plain
  Local and lesser — eschatology / afterlife geography · Hesiodic *Works and Days* + Pindaric / Homeric Elysium notices
• Delphinus: The Dolphin of Poseidon and Amphitrite (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Poseidon’s marriage · Catasterismic handbook — dolphin that won Amphitrite for Poseidon
• Gemini: The Dioscuri among the Stars (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Spartan twins · Catasterismic / Homeric–Pindaric — Castor and Polydeuces as Gemini
• Euthymus and the Hero of Temesa (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Locrian / South Italian hero combat · Pausanian — haunted Temesa; Homeric sailor-daimon; boxer Euthymus frees the city

Characters in shared stories

• Aidos (Shame) and Nemesis
• Amphitrite
• Artemis
• Atlas
• Bronze race
• Calypso
• Cephalus
• Clymene
• Cronus
• Deion
• Delphinus
• Electra
• Epimetheus
• Euthymus of Locri
• Golden race
• Helios’s Phaethon
• Heracles
• Hero of Temesa
• Heroes of the fourth Hesiodic race
• Heroic race
• Hesperides
• Iapetus
• Iron race
• Laomedon
• Lyssa
• Maiden of Temesa
• Memnon
• Menoetius
• Oedipus
• Olympian gods
• Orion
• People of Temesa
• Perses
• Phaethon
• Philotes
• Polydeuces
• Procris
• Proteus
• Pythia
• Rhadamanthys