Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Cadmus and the Founding of Thebes (Dragon’s Teeth)
  Heroes — Cadmus / Theban cycle gateway · Apollodorean (Europa search; Delphic cow; Castalian dragon; Spartoi; Harmonia)
• Europa’s Abduction: Zeus and the Bull
  Heroes — Europa / Cretan kings (preface to Cadmus) · Apollodorean / Moschus (Zeus as bull; Crete; Minos, Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon)
• Cadmus and His Brothers Search for Europa
  Heroes — Europa cycle / Phoenician diaspora / Theban prelude · Apollodorean — Agenor’s command; Phoenix, Cilix, Cadmus, Telephassa disperse
• Apollo as Agenor: Decoy That Lures Achilles from the Walls (*Iliad* 21–22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / lead-in to Hector’s death · Homeric (*Iliad* 21.544–611; transition into 22)
• Belus, Aegyptus, and Danaus: The Setup
  Local and lesser — Argive / Io’s descendants · Apollodorean genealogical setup (before the Danaid murders)
• Taurus: Zeus’s Bull and Europa (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Zeus and Europa · Catasterismic handbook — bull of Europa (or Io) as Taurus
• Theras Colonizes Thera (Calliste)
  Local and lesser — Aegean colonial foundation / Cadmeid–Heraclid link · Herodotean / Pausanian — Theras of Thebes–Sparta settles Calliste; island renamed Thera

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Assembly
• Cilicia
• Egypt / Arabia
• Elysium
• Ethiopia
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Pangaeum
• Mycenae
• Oenone
• Ortygia
• Path of the sun
• Phoenicia
• Pytho
• Scamander direction
• Sea crossing
• Spring of Ares
• The deep
• Thebes
• Thera
• Troy
• Walls of Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• War