Mount Cyllene

Place · slug: mount-cyllene

Also: Arcadia, river Ladon, Achaea border traditions, Stymphalus

Stories (12)

Birth and Early Exploits of Hermes: Cattle Theft, Lyre, and Reconciliation with Apollo
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Apollo and Daphne
Olympian gods · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Greek metamorphosis; Greek notices (Parthenius; Pausanias local laurel) thinner than Ovid’s full plot
Artemis and Callisto
Olympian gods · Apollodorean Arcadian (Zeus; bear metamorphosis; Arcas; constellation notes)
Poseidon and Demeter: Areion and Despoina
Olympian gods / Arcadian mystery cult · Pausanian Arcadian (Thelpusa / Lycosura); Apollodorean black Demeter notice
Pan and Syrinx (Ovid-labeled)
Olympian gods / rustic — Pan · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek Arcadian aetion for the panpipes (*syrinx*)
Birth of Pan (Homeric Hymn 19)
Olympian gods / rustic — Pan · Homeric Hymn to Pan (19)
Hermes’ First Sacrifice (Homeric Hymn to Hermes)
Olympian gods — Hermes · Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4) — Alpheius sacrifice isolated
Zeus and Maia: Parentage of Hermes
Olympian gods — Zeus’s loves / birth of Hermes · Hesiodic / Homeric Hymn — Maia in the cave of Cyllene
Homeric Hymn to Hermes (18)
Olympian gods — Hermes / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XVIII — brief birth praise of Cyllenian Hermes
Third Labor: The Ceryneian (Cerynitian) Hind
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (golden-horned hind sacred to Artemis; year-long chase; confrontation with Artemis and Apollo)
Sixth Labor: The Stymphalian Birds
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (lake birds; Athena’s bronze krotala; flushed and shot)
Black Demeter of Phigalia (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Arcadian Demeter aetiology / cult image · Pausanian — cave of Phigalia; horse-headed Black Demeter; wrath and famine

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Mount Cyllene

Stories (12)

Characters in shared stories