{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0548.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0548.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.local001","title":"Βιβλιοθήκη","titleGreek":"Βιβλιοθήκη","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Apollodorus","authorityName":"Pseudo-APOLLODORUS Myth.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0548-pseudo-apollodorus-myth/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0548-pseudo-apollodorus-myth/","editors":["Sir James George Frazer"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"The Library","edition":null,"publisher":"Harvard University Press","place":"Cambridge, MA","date":"1921","volume":"1-2","series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/apollodoruslibra01apol/page/2/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Apollodorus. Βιβλιοθήκη. ed. Sir James George Frazer. The Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1921. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Οὐρανὸς πρῶτος τοῦ παντὸς ἐδυνάστευσε κόσμου. γήμας δὲ Γῆν ἐτέκνωσε πρώτους τοὺς ἑκατόγχειρας προσαγορευθέντας, Βριάρεων Γύην Κόττον, οἳ μεγέθει τε ἀνυπέρβλητοι καὶ δυνάμει καθειστήκεσαν, χεῖρας μὲν ἀνὰ ἑκατὸν κεφαλὰς δὲ ἀνὰ πεντήκοντα ἔχοντες. μετὰ τούτους δὲ αὐτῷ τεκνοῖ Γῆ Κύκλωπας, Ἄργην Στερόπην Βρόντην, ὧν ἕκαστος εἶχεν ἕνα ὀφθαλμὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ μετώπου. ἀλλὰ τούτους μὲν Οὐρανὸς δήσας εἰς Τάρταρον ἔρριψε (τόπος δὲ οὗτος ἐρεβώδης ἐστὶν ἐν Ἅιδου, τοσοῦτον ἀπὸ γῆς ἔχων διάστημα ὅσον ἀπʼ οὐρανοῦ γῆ), τεκνοῖ δὲ αὖθις ἐκ Γῆς παῖδας μὲν τοὺς Τιτᾶνας προσαγορευθέντας, Ὠκεανὸν Κοῖον Ὑπερίονα Κρεῖον Ἰαπετὸν καὶ νεώτατον ἁπάντων Κρόνον, θυγατέρας δὲ τὰς κληθείσας Τιτανίδας, Τηθὺν Ῥέαν Θέμιν Μνημοσύνην Φοίβην Διώνην Θείαν. ἀγανακτοῦσα δὲ Γῆ ἐπὶ τῇ ἀπωλείᾳ τῶν εἰς Τάρταρον ῥιφέντων παίδων πείθει τοὺς Τιτᾶνας ἐπιθέσθαι τῷ πατρί, καὶ δίδωσιν ἀδαμαντίνην ἅρπην Κρόνῳ. οἱ δὲ Ὠκεανοῦ χωρὶς ἐπιτίθενται,…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0548.tlg001.local001/#tlg0548-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0548.tlg001.local001/#tlg0548-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0548.tlg001.local001/#tlg0548-tlg001-local001-3"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0548.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0548.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0548/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}