Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Birth of Theseus: Aethra, Aegeus, and Poseidon (Double Paternity)
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan compilation (Trozenian conception; Aegeus and Poseidon both named as fathers)
• Tokens under the Rock; Decision for the Land Road
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (recognition tokens; Theseus chooses the bandit-ridden Isthmus road over the sea)
• Theseus and Pirithous: Abduction of Helen
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus and Pirithous seize youthful Helen; she is recovered by the Dioscuri)
• 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)
• Dioscuri Rescue Helen from Aphidna
  Heroes — Dioscuri / Theseus cycle aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Castor and Polydeuces recover Helen; Aethra captured
• Iris Summons Helen to the Wall (*Iliad* 3)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — Iris (as Laodice) fetches Helen for the teichoscopia
• Aethra Recovered at Troy by Acamas and Demophon
  Trojan — Sack / Theseid nostoi · Cyclic / Apollodorean / Plutarchan — Theseus’s mother freed from Helen’s service
• Phalanthus and the Foundation of Taras
  Local and lesser — Spartan colonial aetiology / Magna Graecia · Pausanian / Aristotelian *Politics* notices — Partheniae; oracle of rain from a clear sky; dolphin

Places appearing with them

• Amyclae
• Assembly
• Eleusis
• Helen’s chamber in Troy
• Iapygia
• Isthmus road
• Mycenae
• Olympia
• Plain before Troy
• Pytho
• Rhamnus
• Rock at Trozen
• Sea route to Athens
• Sphairia
• Thebes
• Troezen
• Troy
• Wall of Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Theft
• Underworld
• War