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Greek Mythology

Hesiod, Homeric hymns, Olympians, Titans, underworld, heroes, mystery cults, and Greek philosophical reception.

Greece / MediterraneanBronze Age-Classical6 readable texts6 indexed sources
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Hesiod's Theogony

Greek MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

Full Theogony import for Chaos, Gaia, Uranus, Cronos, the Titans, Zeus, the Muses, Aphrodite, Typhon, divine succession, monster genealogies, and Olympian order.

Ancient Greek· Archaic Greek composition; 1914 public-domain English translation

Hesiod's Works and Days

Greek MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

Works and Days is indexed for Prometheus, Pandora, the ages of humanity, Zeus, justice, labor, sacrifice, omens, divine timing, and everyday piety.

Ancient Greek· Archaic Greek composition; 1914 public-domain English translation

Homeric Hymns

Greek MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

Andrew Lang's public-domain Homeric Hymns edition for Greek gods, mysteries, divine epithets, and myth comparison.

Ancient Greek· Archaic/Classical Greek tradition; 1899 public-domain English edition

The Odyssey

Greek MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

Homer's Odyssey follows the hero Odysseus on his ten-year voyage home from Troy, encompassing encounters with gods, monsters, prophets, and the dead. This import covers all 24 books in Samuel Butler's public-domain 1900 prose translation, including the divine council on Olympus, Telemachus's journey, the Nekyia in Book XI, and the return to Ithaca.

Homeric Greek· c. 8th–7th century BCE

The Iliad

Greek MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

Homer's Iliad narrates the wrath of Achilles and the Trojan War, centering on cosmic battle, divine intervention, sacrifice, and heroic fate. This import covers all 24 books in Samuel Butler's public-domain 1898 prose translation, including the quarrel of Agamemnon and Achilles, divine councils, battlefield interventions, Hector's death, and Priam's ransom.

Homeric Greek· c. 8th century BCE

The Argonautica

Greek MythologyAncient Myth / Comparative

The epic of Jason and the Argonauts: the mustering of the heroes, the voyage of the Argo through the Clashing Rocks to Colchis, Medea's love and sorcery, the winning of the golden fleece from the sleepless serpent, and the long wandering home. R. C. Seaton's 1912 prose translation, Books I-IV complete.

Ancient Greek· c. 3rd century BCE
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Hesiod's Theogony

mythic poemArchaic GreeceGreek
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public-domain Evelyn-White translation loaded

Full Theogony line-block import from Evelyn-White's public-domain Hesiod volume for Chaos, Gaia, Uranus, Cronos, Zeus, Titans, Aphrodite, Typhon, divine succession, and monster genealogies.

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Hesiod's Works and Days

didactic poem / sacred orderArchaic GreeceGreek
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public-domain Evelyn-White translation loaded

Indexed separately from Theogony for Prometheus, Pandora, the ages of humanity, justice, labor, sacrifice, omens, divine timing, and everyday piety.

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The Odyssey

epicArchaic Greek oral tradition represented by a 1900 English prose translationAncient Greek
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Project Gutenberg public-domain Samuel Butler English translation loaded

Indexed across all 24 books for Odysseus, divine councils, sacrifice, prophecy, the underworld journey, monsters, homecoming, and Greek heroic tradition.

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The Iliad

epicArchaic Greek oral tradition represented by an 1898 English prose translationAncient Greek
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Project Gutenberg public-domain Samuel Butler English translation loaded

Indexed across all 24 books for Achilles, divine intervention, sacrifice, oath, battlefield death, honor, wrath, fate, and Greek heroic tradition.

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Homeric Hymns

hymnsArchaic/Classical Greece
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public-domain Lang translation loaded

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Greek/Roman mythology — image enrichment audit + Met OA leads

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Texts all public domain; images = Met Open Access (CC0)

AUDIT: texts already indexed (no import/dupes) — Greek: hesiod-theogony, hesiod-works-days, homeric-hymns, iliad-butler, odyssey-butler; Roman: ovid-metamorphoses-books-1-7, ovid-metamorphoses-books-8-15, aeneid. The Gutenberg leads (#348/#1727/#2199/#16338/#21765/#228) correspond to these already-imported PD editions. EVIDENCE: archived 2 Met Open Access (CC0) source-image sidecars (ingest=false, collection greek-roman-mythology): met-greek-odysseus-circe-mirror (obj 248154, Etruscan bronze mirror, Odysseus+Circe -> odyssey-butler) and met-greek-aeneas-neck-amphora (obj 254342, Attic amphora, Aeneas -> aeneid + iliad-butler). FOLLOW-UP IMAGE CANDIDATES (Met dept 13, CC0; verify each then archive ingest=false): obj 255949 white-ground lekythos by the Achilles Painter (highlight; funerary/afterlife exemplar); plus dept-13 searches for Zeus/Titanomachy (Theogony creation/divine-war), Herakles, Hades/Persephone + the Nekyia/underworld (Odyssey XI, Aeneid VI hero-descent), Dionysos and Demeter (Homeric Hymns). Recommend a focused follow-up pass to add ~1-2 images per text with accurate content relationships.

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Questions this area should answer
  • How do Titans and Olympians compare with divine-war myths?
  • What does Prometheus add to forbidden-knowledge patterns?
  • How do heroes descend and return?