Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Ninth Labor: Hippolyte’s Belt (Hera’s Rumor and the Death of the Queen)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Admete’s desire; Hippolyte first willing; Hera as Amazon spreads rumor; Heracles kills Hippolyte and takes the belt of Ares)
• Tribute to Minos and the Voyage to Crete
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Androgeus’s death; Athenian tribute of youths and maidens; Theseus volunteers)
• Death of Androgeus and the Origin of the Athenian Tribute
  Heroes — Theseus prelude / Minos–Athens quarrel · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Androgeus slain in Attica; Minos wars; tribute of youths
• Scylla and Nisus: The Purple Lock
  Local and lesser — Megarian / Cretan war · Apollodorean / Pausanian (+ Ciris tradition; Ovid labeled Roman for fullest metamorphosis)

Places appearing with them

• Aenus
• Heraclea
• Labyrinth
• Megara
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Oenone
• Olympia
• Ortygia
• Paros
• Rhamnus
• Sea between Athens and Crete
• Sea off Megara
• Thasos
• Themiscyra
• Thermodon
• Torone
• Troy

Themes

• Contest
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• War