Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (14)

• Departure and the Women of Lemnos (Hypsipyle)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Lemnian women; Hypsipyle; sojourn and departure)
• Cyzicus and the Doliones: Friendly King Killed by Mistake
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (hospitality by night; mistaken battle; funeral games)
• Amycus and the Bebryces: Boxing Match of Polydeuces
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Amycus’s challenge; Polydeuces wins; Bebrycian rout)
• The Symplegades (Clashing Rocks)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (dove test; Athena’s push; rocks fixed thereafter)
• Medea’s Aid: The Tasks Completed and the Taking of the Fleece
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (drugs; yoking; sown men; dragon lulled or slain; fleece taken)
• Murder of Apsyrtus: Ambush in the Adriatic (Apollonius)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (adult Apsyrtus pursues; lured to Artemis’s shrine; Jason kills him abroad)
• Murder of Apsyrtus: Child Slain and Dismembered (Apollodorus)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (young Apsyrtus taken from Colchis; killed and scattered to delay Aeetes)
• Circe’s Purification; Libya and Triton’s Gift (Return Voyage)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian return (Circe cleanses kin-blood; later Libyan shoals and Triton)
• Talos on Crete
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (bronze guardian; ankle vein; Medea’s defeat of Talos)
• Return to Iolcus and the Death of Pelias (Medea’s Rejuvenation Trick)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (fleece returned; daughters of Pelias deceived; Pelias boiled; exile)
• Glaucus of Anthedon: The Fisherman-God
  Local and lesser — Boeotian / marine metamorphosis · Ovidian Roman narrative (+ Pausanian / Hellenistic notices of the Anthedonian fisherman-prophet)
• The Heliades: Amber Tears
  Local and lesser — Helios / Phaethon aftermath / aetiology of amber · Ovid-labeled Roman fullest narrative + Greek tragic/fragmentary and handbook notices
• The Cabeiri of Samothrace
  Local and lesser — Samothracian Mysteries / protective daimones · Herodotus / classical notices — Great Gods of Samothrace; initiation
• Anaphe and Apollo Aegletes
  Local and lesser — Argonautic return / Cycladic island aetiology · Apollonian — Apollo’s radiant epiphany; island appears; Aegletes cult

Places appearing with them

• Adriatic
• Aegae
• Anaphe
• Ankle of Talos
• Argo
• Banks of the Eridanus
• Bebrycia
• Bosporus
• Cauldron of Medea
• Circe’s land
• Colchis
• Corinth
• Ethiopia
• Field of Ares
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Hellespont
• Imbros
• Iolcus
• Island shrine of Artemis
• Lake Tritonis
• Land of the Doliones
• Lycia
• Mount Dindymon
• Mount Helicon
• Mouth of the Ister (Danube)
• Oenone
• Phasis
• Sea (or coastal road) of the escape
• Sea of the return voyage
• Sea path from Tritonis
• Sea routes
• Shore grass
• Shrine of Hecate
• Spring Aega
• Symplegades
• The deep
• Tomb of Cyzicus

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• Underworld
• War