The deep
Place · slug: the-deep
Also: Pontus, Pontic deep, Aegean, Argolic Gulf, Poseidon’s domain, Poseidon’s realm, Nereid realm, Oceanid realm, flooded land, Euxine, near the Argolid or Corinthian Gulf, Black Sea, storm, sea, deep, shores where amber washes up
- Primordial Beginnings: Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Children of Pontus (Hesiodic Catalogue)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Sea’s brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Pontus’s offspring)
- Nereus and the Nereids (Hesiodic / Apollodorean Catalogue)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Pontus’s line / sea nymphs · Hesiodic catalogue (+ Apollodorean Nereid list)
- Asteria Becomes Delos (Ortygia)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / Delian aetiology · Apollodorean / Callimachean / mythographic (quail / star → island)
- Phorcys and Ceto: Graeae, Gorgons, and Sea-Monster Genealogy
Cosmogony / Theogony — Phorcid sea-monster line · Hesiodic — Phorcys–Ceto brood (zoom on Graeae/Gorgons)
- Birth of Dionysus: Semele, the Thunderbolt, and Zeus’s Thigh
Olympian gods · Apollodorean / tragic (common classical Semele–thigh birth; Euripidean background)
- Ino–Leucothea and Melicertes–Palaemon
Olympian gods — Dionysiac family / sea-cult · Apollodorean / Homeric (Ino as Leucothea in *Odyssey*); tragic Athamas madness
- Dionysus and Lycurgus
Olympian gods — Dionysus · Homeric (*Iliad* 6) / Apollodorean (Edonian persecution; madness; pruning shears)
- Hera and Poseidon: The Contest for Argos
Olympian gods / Argive foundation · Pausanian Argive (divine contest; river-gods as judges)
- Poseidon and Halirrhothius (Father of the Victim)
Olympian gods — Poseidon / Attic · Apollodorean / Atthidographic (Poseidon as avenging father)
- Poseidon and Amphitrite: Marriage of the Sea-Queen
Olympian gods — Poseidon / Nereid queenship · Hesiodic genealogy + Apollodorean / handbook marriage; Delphinus aid
- Thetis’s Prophecy: Zeus and Poseidon Renounce Her
Olympian gods — Zeus / Poseidon / Thetis; Achillean prelude · Pindaric / Apollodorean — son destined to be mightier than his father
- Iris and the Harpies: Children of Thaumas
Olympian gods / sea-born messengers — Thaumas’s line · Hesiodic — Iris and the Harpies as siblings from Thaumas and Electra
- Homeric Hymn to Poseidon (22)
Olympian gods — Poseidon / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXII — praise of the Earth-shaker
- Homeric Hymn to Earth Mother of All (30)
Olympian / primordial — Gaia / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXX — praise of Earth as mother of all
- Andromeda and the Sea-Monster (Ethiopia)
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean Ethiopian (Cepheus’s Aethiopia; Ammon’s oracle; Phineus petrified)
- Fifth Labor: The Augean Stables
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (cleaning by river diversion; wage-quarrel with Augeas; Phyleus as witness; Eurystheus again refuses to count the labor)
- Ninth Labor: The Amazons (Melanippe’s Ransom — No Murder of Hippolyte)
Heroes — Heracles · Diodorean (pitched Amazon war; Melanippe freed for her girdle as ransom; Antiope given to Theseus; Hippolyte not the slain prize-bearer)
- The Symplegades (Clashing Rocks)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (dove test; Athena’s push; rocks fixed thereafter)
- Orion: Birth Variants (Apollodorus / Boeotian)
Heroes — Orion · Apollodorean catalogue of birth variants (+ Homeric parentage notices)
- Thetis and the Invulnerability of Achilles (Styx / Fire Variants)
Heroes — Aeacid / Achilles childhood · Classical handbook and scholiastic variants (Styx; fire-and-ambrosia); Homeric Achilles is *not* invulnerable
- Stheneboea’s Suicide after Bellerophon’s Rejection (Euripides)
Heroes — Bellerophon aftermath / tragic heroine · Euripidean (lost *Stheneboea*; reconstructed from fragments and hypothesis)
- Orestes’ Wanderings and Alternate Purifications (beyond *Eumenides*)
Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Euripidean notices (multi-site cleansing)
- Tenes of Tenedos
Heroes / Trojan periphery — Tenedian eponym / Achilles cycle · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cyclic notices — false accusation; exile; Achilles’ killing
- Aesacus and Hesperia (Ovid-Labeled)
Heroes — Trojan royal house / bird metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Trojan prince’s dive and seabird change; brief Greek genealogical notices of Aesacus
- Hecuba: Polymestor and Polydorus (Euripides)
Trojan — Sack aftermath / early nostos · Attic tragic — Euripides *Hecuba* (Polymestor–Polydorus plot; Polyxena cross-ref 038)
- Telegony: Telegonus Kills Odysseus (Epic Cycle End)
Trojan — Epic Cycle close / post-*Odyssey* · Epic Cycle — *Telegony* (Proclus summary; Eugammon of Cyrene attrib.)
- Death of Locrian Ajax on the Gyrae Rocks (Detailed)
Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric (*Odyssey* 4) / Apollodorean / Cycle *Nostoi* (+ Euripides *Troades* wrath frame)
- Euripides *Cyclops* (Satyr Play): Odysseus and Polyphemus
Trojan — Odyssey side-tradition / satyr drama · Attic satyr play — Euripides *Cyclops* (vs. Homeric *Odyssey* 9)
- Idomeneus and the Vow (Human Sacrifice / Exile)
Trojan — Nostoi / Cretan return · Apollodorean / Servian–handbook nostos (vow; plague; exile)
- Poseidon Rallies the Greeks (*Iliad* 13)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 13 · Homeric — Poseidon’s covert aid against Zeus’s will
- Hera Bribes Hypnos to Lull Zeus (*Iliad* 14)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Dios apate prelude · Homeric — Sleep’s fear of Zeus; promise of Pasithea; lull on Ida
- Ceyx and Alcyone
Local and lesser — Trachinian / Aeolian metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Greek pair; Apollodorean brief notice of Ceyx
- Belus, Aegyptus, and Danaus: The Setup
Local and lesser — Argive / Io’s descendants · Apollodorean genealogical setup (before the Danaid murders)
- Pasiphaë and the Bull
Local and lesser — Cretan / Minos cycle · Apollodorean (Poseidon’s bull; Daedalus’s cow; birth of the Minotaur)
- Scylla and Charybdis: Origin and Metamorphosis
Local and lesser — Sicilian strait aetiology (separate from *Odyssey* 12 encounter) · Ovidian Roman transmission of Circe–Glaucus–Scylla metamorphosis; Greek notices of Charybdis as daughter of Poseidon and Gaia
- Glaucus of Anthedon: The Fisherman-God
Local and lesser — Boeotian / marine metamorphosis · Ovidian Roman narrative (+ Pausanian / Hellenistic notices of the Anthedonian fisherman-prophet)
- Polyphemus and Galatea (Theocritus, *Idyll* 11)
Local and lesser — Sicilian / Cyclops love (pre-Odyssean temper) · Theocritean Greek bucolic (Cyclops as rustic lover; no Acis)
- The Heliades: Amber Tears
Local and lesser — Helios / Phaethon aftermath / aetiology of amber · Ovid-labeled Roman fullest narrative + Greek tragic/fragmentary and handbook notices
- Aquila: The Eagle of Ganymede (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Zeus’s eagle · Catasterismic handbook — eagle that bore Ganymede (or Zeus’s bird) placed among the stars
- Lyra: The Lyre of Orpheus (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orpheus · Catasterismic handbook — Orpheus’s lyre placed among the stars
- Delphinus: The Dolphin of Poseidon and Amphitrite (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Poseidon’s marriage · Catasterismic handbook — dolphin that won Amphitrite for Poseidon
- Cassiopeia, Cepheus, and Andromeda (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Perseus cycle · Catasterismic handbook — royal Ethiopian family placed in the stars
- Asclepius as Ophiuchus (Serpent-Bearer)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Asclepius · Catasterismic handbook — Asclepius placed as Ophiuchus with the serpent