Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Birth of Heracles: Amphitryon, Alcmene, Zeus; Hera’s Delay; the Snakes
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Theban birth; Zeus’s prolonged night; Eurystheus preferred by Hera’s trick)
• Madness of Heracles: Murder of the Children (Apollodorean, before the Labors)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Hera-sent madness in Thebes *before* service to Eurystheus; Megara’s sons killed; purification then Delphi)
• Oracle and the Beginning of Service to Eurystheus
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Delphic command; twelve years at Tiryns; labors as path to immortality)

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Chamber of the infants
• Mycenae
• Ocean’s streams
• Pytho
• Taphos
• Thebes

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Theft
• War