But he again bound and shut them up in Tartarus, and wedded his sister Rhea and since both Earth and Sky foretold him that he would be dethroned by his own son, he used to swallow his offspring at birth. 6 And, having dethroned their father, they brought up their brethren who had been hurled down to Tartarus, and committed the sovereignty to Cronus. And they, all but Ocean, attacked him, and Cronus cut off his father's genitals and threw them into the sea and from the drops of the flowing blood were born Furies, to wit, Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera.

But Earth, grieved at the destruction of her children, who had been cast into Tartarus, persuaded the Titans to attack their father and gave Cronus an adamantine sickle.

And again he begat children by Earth, to wit, the Titans as they are named: Ocean, Coeus, Hyperion, Crius, Iapetus, and, youngest of all, Cronus also daughters, the Titanides as they are called: Tethys, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Dione, Thia. But them Sky bound and cast into Tartarus, a gloomy place in Hades as far distant from earth as earth is distant from the sky. After these, Earth bore him the Cyclopes, to wit, Arges, Steropes, Brontes 3 of whom each had one eye on his forehead. 1 And having wedded Earth, he begat first the Hundred-handed, as they are named: Briareus, Gyes, Cottus, who were unsurpassed in size and might, each of them having a hundred hands and fifty heads. Sky was the first who ruled over the whole world. Odyssey & Telegonia THE LIBRARY BOOK 1, TRANSLATED BY J. Cecrops, Adonis, Tereus & Procne, Erichthoniusġ5. Dardanus, Ilus, Priam, Aeacus, Telamonġ4. Pleiades, Hermes, Coronis, Asclepius, Leda, Suitors of Helenġ2.

Dionysus, Antiope, Amphion & Zethus, Oedipusġ0. Perseus, Sons of Perseus, Amphitryon, Birth of Heraclesĥ. Sons of Aeolus, Melampus, Admetus, Pelias, ArgonautsĤ. Prometheus, Deucalion, Daughters of Aeolusĩ. NOTE: I have quoted from the Aldrich translation rather than the Loeb volume on the biography pages of the Theoi Greek Mythology site.ħ. In addition to the translation the book contains the source Greek text and Frazer's copious introduction and footnotes.įor some more recent translations of Apollodorus' Library and academic commentaries on the work see the booklist (left below). The two Loeb volumes of Apollodorus are still in print and available new at (click on image right for details). Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press London, William Heinemann Ltd. Loeb Classical Library Volumes 121 & 122. The work is generally believed to be a C2nd A.D. The work was traditionally ascribed to Apollodorus of Alexandria, a Greek scholar who flourished in the C2nd B.C., but his authorship is now dismissed. APOLLODORUS or Pseudo-Apollodorus is the name traditionally given to the author of the Greek work known as The Library or Bibliotheca, a compendium of myth sourced from old Greek epic and the plays of the Tragedians.

Myth ii 1.8.3