Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Seafaring and the Pleiades (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic star-lore / seafaring · Hesiodic — Pleiades, Sirius, and the season for ships
• Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Nereus, Atlas Holds the Sky)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (apples among Hyperboreans by Atlas; Nereus compelled for guidance; Atlas fetches fruit while Heracles bears the sky; craft-return of the burden; Ladon present as guardian but not slain in this plot)
• Atalanta’s Footrace: Melanion and the Golden Apples
  Heroes — Atalanta · Apollodorean Greek (Melanion; Aphrodite’s apples; metamorphosis into lions)

Places appearing with them

• Arabia
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Caucasus
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Farmstead
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Illyria
• Land of the Hyperboreans
• Mycenae
• Outer sea
• Racecourse
• River Echedorus
• River Eridanus
• Sanctuary of Zeus
• Thermydrae
• Wine-dark sea

Themes

• Abduction
• Contest
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• War