Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (19)

• Poseidon and Demeter: Areion and Despoina
  Olympian gods / Arcadian mystery cult · Pausanian Arcadian (Thelpusa / Lycosura); Apollodorean black Demeter notice
• Conflict of Eteocles and Polynices; Exile of Polynices
  Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (*Phoenissae*, *OC*, *Seven* backstory)
• The Seven Against Thebes: March and Battle
  Theban · Aeschylean / Apollodorean (seven champions; seven gates)
• Mutual Killing of Eteocles and Polynices
  Theban · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean (fraternal duel)
• The Epigoni: The Next Generation’s War on Thebes
  Theban · Apollodorean / epic cycle (*Epigoni* tradition)
• Amphiaraus Swallowed by the Earth
  Theban — Seven Against Thebes sequel (personal fate of the seer) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (reluctant march; chasm; hero-oracle)
• Adrastus of Argos: Kingship, Arion, and Survival
  Heroes — Theban / Argive (Seven Against Thebes) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / tragic
• Capaneus: Blasphemy and the Thunderbolt
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Tydeus and Melanippus: Brains, Athena, and Denied Immortality
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Apollodorean / cyclic / scholiastic
• Parthenopaeus: Death at Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Hippomedon: Death at Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Polynices and Argia (Argeia): Marriage at Argos
  Heroes — Theban / Argive alliance · Apollodorean / tragic / cyclic (Adrastus’s daughters; lion and boar)
• Argia Helps Bury Polynices (Variant)
  Heroes — Theban / burial aftermath · Handbook / post-Sophoclean variant (Argia with Antigone)
• Diomedes after Thebes: Epigonus and Argive King
  Heroes — Theban / Epigoni / Argive · Apollodorean / Homeric — Epigonus who becomes Trojan-war Argive leader
• Death of Aegialeus in the Epigoni War
  Heroes — Theban / Epigoni · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cyclic
• Adrastus Dies of Grief for Aegialeus
  Heroes — Theban / Epigoni aftermath / Argive · Pausanian / Apollodorean notices
• Eriphyle Bribed: Amphiaraus Forced against Thebes
  Heroes — Seven Against Thebes / Argive muster · Apollodorean / cyclic — necklace of Harmonia as bribe
• Theseus and the Suppliants: Recovery of the Seven’s Bodies
  Heroes — Theseus / Theban aftermath / Attic tragic charter · Attic tragic — Euripides *Suppliants* (Adrastus and the mothers at Eleusis)
• Atys and Adrastus: Death of Croesus’s Son (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lydian / Herodotus legends · Herodotean — dream, boar-hunt, accidental spear-kill

Places appearing with them

• Amphiaraus’s chasm
• Argos
• Calydon
• Chasm near Thebes
• Eleusis
• Field of the Seven
• His assigned gate
• His gate
• House of Cadmus
• Illyrian
• Ismenus
• Lycosura
• Megara
• Mount Cyllene
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Mysian Olympus
• Olympia
• Oropus
• Phigalia
• Pytho
• Rhamnus
• Sardis
• Theban battlefield
• Thebes
• Troy

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Theft
• War