Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• 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)
• Children of Nyx (Hesiodic Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night and her brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Night’s offspring)
• Birth of the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — children of Gaia and Uranus · Hesiodic — three Cyclopes and three Hundred-Handers before the Titans’ castration-plot
• Ophion and Eurynome: Alternative Primordial Rule
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic / early alternative pair · Orphic / Apollonian (Orpheus’s song) — Ophion and Eurynome before Cronus and Rhea
• Homeric Hymn to the Mother of the Gods (14)
  Olympian gods / Phrygian reception — Mother of the Gods / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XIV — praise of the Mother with castanets, tympana, and wolves
• Attis and Cybele (Classical Greek Notices)
  Local and lesser — Phrygian cult in Greek reception · Classical Greek notices of a Phrygian myth; fuller narrative often Hellenistic/Roman—labeled where not Archaic Greek
• Agdistis of Phrygia
  Local and lesser — Phrygian aetiology / Mother of the Gods / Attis cycle prelude · Pausanian Lydian–Phrygian — bisexual earth-born Agdistis; almond; Attis