Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Gelanor Yields Argos to Danaus
  Heroes / Argive — Danaid arrival and transfer of kingship · Apollodorean / Pausanian — last pre-Danaid king; omen of the wolf
• Stentor of the Bronze Voice
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / divine disguise on the battlefield · Homeric — Hera (or Athena) takes Stentor’s form; voice of fifty men
• Amymone and Poseidon: The Lernaean Spring
  Local and lesser — Argive / Danaid prelude · Apollodorean / Aeschylean satyr-play tradition (Amymone)
• Phoroneus of Argos: First Man and First City
  Local and lesser — Argive foundation / culture-hero · Pausanian / Apollodorean / Acusilaan Argive
• Inachus: River-King of Argos
  Local and lesser — Argive origins / river eponym · Pausanian / Apollodorean — Inachus as first king or river; father of Io

Places appearing with them

• Achaean council
• Argos
• Egypt
• Lerna
• Mycenae
• River Inachus
• Rivers Inachus, Cephisus, Asterion
• Rock struck by the trident
• Sanctuary of Hera Argia

Themes

• Birth
• Contest
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• War