Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (12)

• Oceanus, Tethys, and the Oceanids (Hesiodic Overview)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / watery catalogue · Hesiodic catalogue
• Iris the Messenger (Iliad)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — divine agents / Olympian household · Homeric (*Iliad*) — Iris as go-between; Hesiodic genealogy noted
• Ophion and Eurynome: Alternative Primordial Rule
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic / early alternative pair · Orphic / Apollonian (Orpheus’s song) — Ophion and Eurynome before Cronus and Rhea
• Poseidon and Medusa in Athena’s Temple
  Olympian gods — Poseidon / Athena / Gorgon origin · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek temple-violation curse aetiology
• Athena and Medusa: The Beauty Curse (Handbook Variant)
  Olympian gods — Athena / Gorgon aetiology · Apollodorean minority notice / handbook beauty-challenge
• Styx Allies Zeus: Nike, Kratos, Bia, and Zelos
  Olympian gods — divine household / Titanomachy rewards · Hesiodic — Styx’s primacy and her children’s seats beside Zeus
• Iris Fetches the Water of Styx for Oaths (Hesiod)
  Olympian gods — Iris / divine ritual · Hesiodic — Iris as bearer of Styx-water when gods swear
• Homeric Hymn to Helios (31)
  Olympian gods — Helios / solar hymn · Homeric Hymn XXXI — praise and genealogy of the Sun
• Homeric Hymn to Selene (32)
  Olympian gods — Selene / lunar hymn · Homeric Hymn XXXII — praise of the Moon; birth of Pandia
• Visit to the Graeae and the Nymphs
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (shared eye and tooth; path to the nymphs)
• Beheading of Medusa: Birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Hesiodic enrichment (Medusa mortal; Pegasus and Chrysaor from the neck)
• Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryon (Helios’s Cup, Orthrus, Erytheia)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Erytheia/Gadira; triple-bodied Geryon; Orthrus and Eurytion; Helios’s golden cup; homeward cattle-drive with Eryx and Hera’s gadfly)

Characters in shared stories

• Ares
• Artemis
• Athena
• Callirrhoe
• Ceto
• Chrysaor
• Cronus
• Dino
• Electra
• Eos
• Eryx
• Eurynome
• Eurytion
• Forsworn god
• Geryon
• Gorgons
• Graeae
• Hades
• Harpies
• Helios
• Hephaestus
• Hera, Zeus
• Heracles
• Hyperion
• Ialebion and Dercynus
• Iris
• Menoetes
• Metis, Eurynome, Doris, Electra, Perseis, Clymene
• Muse
• Muses
• Nike
• Ocean
• Oceanids
• Oceanus
• Olympian gods
• Ophion
• Orpheus
• Orthrus
• Pallas
• Pandia