Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Birth of Geryon: Chrysaor and Callirhoe
  Cosmogony / Theogony — monstrous genealogy / Geryon’s origin · Hesiodic — Chrysaor and Oceanid Callirhoe beget three-bodied Geryon
• The Shield of Achilles: Homeric Ekphrasis (*Iliad* 18)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 18 · Homeric — Hephaestus’s cosmic and civic shield
• Callisto Catasterism: Arctos (Ursa Major)
  Local and lesser — Arcadian / astral aetiology · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean / Pausanian Arcadian frame)

Characters in shared stories

• Ajax
• Arcas
• Ares
• Artemis
• Asteropaeus
• Callirhoe
• Callisto
• Chrysaor
• Figures of the shield
• Geryon
• Gorgons
• Lyssa
• Ocean
• Pallas
• Philotes
• Tethys
• Tethys and Oceanus