Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (12)

• Primordial Beginnings: Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• The Titanomachy
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Imprisonment of the Titans and the Warders of Tartarus
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Orphic Cosmogony (Brief — Distinct Tradition Note)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic tradition (not Hesiodic main line) · Orphic / late classical–Hellenistic notices (labeled distinct from Hesiod)
• Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Flood and the Stones
  Cosmogony / Theogony — flood anthropogony (Hellenic renewal) · Apollodorean (main handbook flood; Parnassus; “bones of the mother”)
• Philotes: Affection, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified affection · Hesiodic — Philotes (Affection / sexual love) among Nyx’s children
• Erebus and Nyx: Birth of Aether and Hemera
  Cosmogony / Theogony — primordial pairs / Day and bright air · Hesiodic — Aether and Day born of Night and Erebus
• 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 Earth Mother of All (30)
  Olympian / primordial — Gaia / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXX — praise of Earth as mother of all
• Orion: Birth Variants (Apollodorus / Boeotian)
  Heroes — Orion · Apollodorean catalogue of birth variants (+ Homeric parentage notices)
• Tityus: Assault on Leto and Eternal Punishment
  Heroes / primordial giants — crime against Leto · Homeric / Apollodorean — Tityus in the underworld
• The Heliadae of Rhodes
  Local and lesser — Rhodian primordial kings / Helios cult · Pindaric / Diodorean — seven sons of Helios and Rhode; fireless sacrifice; murder of Tenages