Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (10)

• The Titanomachy
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Typhoeus Against Zeus (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• 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 Erinyes, Giants, and Meliae from the Blood of Uranus
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (aftermath of the castration; extracted as its own short entry for the blood-born host)
• The Gigantomachy: Full Battle (Apollodorus)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian defense of the cosmos · Apollodorean catalogue battle (full divine pairings; Heracles as mortal ally)
• Echo and Narcissus (Ovid Line)
  Olympian gods / local metamorphosis — Echo; Narcissus · Roman transmission (Ovid) — Echo cursed by Hera; composite with Narcissus (distinct from Pausanias’s Thespian Narcissus)
• Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
• Madness of Heracles: Murder of the Children (Apollodorean, before the Labors)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Hera-sent madness in Thebes *before* service to Eurystheus; Megara’s sons killed; purification then Delphi)
• Oracle and the Beginning of Service to Eurystheus
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Delphic command; twelve years at Tiryns; labors as path to immortality)
• Heracles and the Fifty Daughters of Thespius
  Heroes — Heracles / youth; Thespian progeny · Apollodorean / Pausanian — fifty nights; Thespiades as mothers of Heracles’ sons

Characters in shared stories

• Ajax
• Alcaeus
• Alcyoneus
• Amores
• Amphitryon
• Aphrodite
• Apollo, Dionysus, Hecate, Hephaestus, Poseidon, Hermes, Artemis, the Moirai
• Artemis
• Autolycus
• Briareos
• Brontes
• Castor
• Cephisus
• Clymenus
• Cottus
• Creon
• Cronus
• Echo
• Elpis
• Ephialtes, Eurytus, Clytius, Mimas, Enceladus, Polybotes, Hippolytus, Gration, Agrius, Thoas, Pallas
• Epimetheus
• Erginus
• Erinyes
• Eurytus
• Fifty daughters of Thespius
• Gaia
• Gyes
• Hades
• Helios, Selene, Eos
• Hephaestus
• Hera
• Heracles
• Hermes
• Iapetus
• Iolaus
• Iphicles
• Linus
• Liriope
• Megara
• Meliae