Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Niobe: Apollo and Artemis Slaughter Her Children
  Heroes — Niobe (Theban / Lydian) · Apollodorean / Homeric (boast over Leto; children shot; stone on Sipylus)
• Amphion and Zethus: The Walls of Thebes
  Theban · Apollodorean / Homeric (*Odyssey* Antiope) / Pausanian
• Antiope: Zeus, Lycus, and Dirce (Euripides / Apollodorus)
  Heroes — Theban / Amphion–Zethus prelude · Euripidean (*Antiope* fragments) / Apollodorean / Homeric (*Odyssey* 11)
• Dirce and the Bull
  Heroes — Theban / Amphion–Zethus · Apollodorean / Euripidean / Pausanian (bull-death; spring aetiology; Farnese motif in art)

Places appearing with them

• Cithaeron foothills
• Countryside
• Lydia
• Mount Cithaeron
• Sicyon
• Spring Dirce
• Thebes

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Exile
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• War