Corpus
Mythological stories
Episodes, abductions, births, and rivalries: explore the narratives that shape myth.
Apollonian Cycle
1 storyCycle of metamorphoses
1 storyCycle of Olympian Advent
2 storiesThe legitimisation of Zeus: the judgment of the gods
After the fall of Cronus, Zeus must still convince his brothers and sisters, as well as the ancient powers, to recognize his authority. This narrative stages the pivotal moment when his reign becomes fully legitimate.
The Typhonomachy
Typhon, last-born of the primordial forces, rises against Zeus in a cataclysmic confrontation that definitively seals the sovereignty of Olympus.
Dionysian Cycle
7 storiesBorn despite the Gods
The birth of Dionysus
Episode 1
Beloved by Zeus, Semele falls victim to Hera's jealousy. Struck down after asking to see the god in his full glory, she dies carrying her child. Zeus saves the embryo and brings it to term a second time within his own flesh: thus is born Dionysus, the twice-born god.
The hidden childhood of Dionysus
Episode 2
Born twice and already threatened by Hera’s jealousy, Dionysus is hidden from the very beginning of his life. Nourished, moved, and at times transformed, he grows up in wandering and concealment. This unstable childhood shapes a god without a fixed dwelling, marked by flight, protection, and the fragile boundary between identity and transformation.
The Wandering God and the Law of Ecstasy
Dionysus the wanderer
Episode 3
Having reached adulthood, Dionysus travels across the known and distant world. He teaches the cultivation of the vine, introduces wine, and establishes rites centered on intoxication, dance, and trance. His wandering is not a simple journey: it transforms the peoples he encounters and reveals the ambivalent power of a god who civilizes as much as he unsettles.
Resisting Dionysus
Episode 4
Wherever Dionysus brings his cult, some refuse to acknowledge him. Kings and authorities seek to preserve order, measure, and hierarchy. But to refuse Dionysus is to deny an essential part of reality. The god does not compel: he lets refusal produce its own effects - all the way to madness and collapse.
Death, the Underworld, and Recognition
The katabasis of Dionysus: the return of Semele
Episode 6
Now a god, Dionysus descends into the Underworld to bring back Semele, his mother. By returning her to the divine world and granting her immortality under the name Thyone, he repairs the injustice that had struck her down - and seals one of the most profound myths in mystery theology.
Thyone among the gods
Episode 7
Having brought Semele back from the Underworld and transformed her into Thyone, Dionysus receives long-overdue recognition among the gods. Yet this integration remains paradoxical: accepted without ever being fully tamed, Dionysus asserts himself as a necessary and unsettling power whose place within Olympus remains fundamentally unstable.
Zeus childhood cycle
6 storiesRhea and the saved birth of Zeus
Episode 1
Overwhelmed by Cronus's voracity as he devours each of their children, Rhea steals Zeus from his fate and substitutes a swaddled stone. This founding act opens the way for the Titan's fall and the rise of the Olympian order.
Amalthea and the cornucopia
Episode 2
Amalthea, the nurturing goat of the young Zeus, protects and feeds him in the cave of Mount Ida. From her wound is born the cornucopia, enduring symbol of prosperity and divine generosity.
The cave of Mount Ida, womb of the god
Episode 3
Hidden within the slopes of Mount Ida, the cave where Zeus is raised becomes the true cradle of Olympian order. A place of concealment, growth and symbolic gestation, it embodies the matrix from which the king of the gods will emerge.
Melissa, the nymph who became a bee
Episode 4
Melissa, a Cretan nymph and secret nurse of Zeus, protects the divine child from Cronus. For having guarded the secret of his survival, she is transformed into a bee, becoming a symbol of sweetness, loyalty, and sacred transmission.
The Corybantes and the silence of arms
Episode 5
To conceal the cries of the young Zeus and shield him from Cronus, the Corybantes perform an armed dance around the cave of Mount Ida. The clash of weapons becomes a sonic barrier, founding an ancient rite in which noise itself protects destiny.
Adrasteia, Guardian of the Inevitable
Episode 6
Adrasteia, the nymph who nurses the young Zeus, watches over his growth and education. Her name, bound to the inevitability of destiny, already foreshadows the fall of Cronus and the rise of a new order.