Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library
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Night
Place · slug: night
Also: owl’s haunt, margins of cities
Stories (2)
Ascalaphus Turned into an Owl
Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld daimones / Demeter’s vengeance · Apollodorean (+ Ovid-labeled Roman enrichment) — orchard-witness of the pomegranate; Demeter (or Persephone) makes him an owl
Empusa and the Lamiae
Local and lesser — daimonic / Hecate’s train; folk-bogey in classical comedy and philosophy · Aristophanic / Philostratean / Diodoran (Empusa; Lamia as child-devouring bogey; Hecate connection)
Characters in shared stories
Acheron / Gorgyra
Ares
Ascalaphus
Children
Demeter
Dionysus and Xanthias
Empusa
Hecate
Heracles
Persephone
Philotes
Sybaris