Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (10)

• 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)
• Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
• 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)
• Madness of Heracles: Murder of Wife and Children (Euripidean, after the Labors)
  Heroes — Heracles · Attic tragic — Euripides (madness *after* return from the labors; Lycus episode; Megara slain; Theseus as comforter)
• Amphitryon’s War on the Teleboans (Taphians)
  Heroes — Amphitryon / prelude to the birth of Heracles · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Shield* — vengeance-war for Alcmene’s brothers
• Heracles and the Fifty Daughters of Thespius
  Heroes — Heracles / youth; Thespian progeny · Apollodorean / Pausanian — fifty nights; Thespiades as mothers of Heracles’ sons
• Electryon’s Death and Amphitryon’s Exile
  Heroes — Amphitryon / Heracles prelude / Mycenaean house · Apollodorean — accidental killing of Electryon; exile to Thebes; betrothal to Alcmene
• Pterelaus and Comaetho: The Golden Hair
  Heroes — Amphitryon / Teleboan war / Taphian kingship · Apollodorean — Poseidon’s immortalizing hair; daughter’s betrayal
• Rhadamanthys and Alcmene in Boeotia
  Heroes — after Heracles / Cretan lawgiver in Boeotia · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Rhadamanthys weds Alcmene; settles at Ocaleae or Haliartus
• Procris and Cephalus (Apollodorus)
  Local and lesser — Attic / Cephallenian marital tragedy · Apollodorean (gifts of Artemis; accidental killing); Pherecydes / tragic fragments

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Chamber of the infants
• Elysium
• Hades
• House of Heracles
• Midea
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Mycenae / Argolid
• Ocean’s streams
• Olympia
• Ortygia
• Pytho
• Rhamnus
• Sardinia
• Taphos
• Thebes
• Troezen

Themes

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