Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Ninth Labor: The Amazons (Melanippe’s Ransom — No Murder of Hippolyte)
  Heroes — Heracles · Diodorean (pitched Amazon war; Melanippe freed for her girdle as ransom; Antiope given to Theseus; Hippolyte not the slain prize-bearer)
• Theseus and the Amazons: Antiope (or Hippolyte)
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus takes Amazon bride Antiope or Hippolyte; Amazon invasion of Attica)
• Hippolytus and Phaedra (Euripides)
  Heroes — Theseus · Attic tragic — Euripides, *Hippolytus* (Phaedra’s forbidden love; Theseus’s curse; Artemis and Aphrodite)
• 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)
• Nycteus and Lycus: Theban Usurpation Setup
  Heroes — Theban political prelude (pre-Amphionid) · Apollodorean / Pausanian genealogical politics
• Penthesilea the Amazon; Achilles and Thersites
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ later classical Thersites episode)

Places appearing with them

• Areopagus
• Cithaeron foothills
• Elis
• Mount Cithaeron
• Olympia
• Rhamnus
• Sea off Trozen
• Shore
• Sicyon
• Spring Dirce
• The deep
• Thebes
• Themiscyra
• Thermodon
• Troezen
• Troy

Themes

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