Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Artemis and Actaeon
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean “general opinion” (bathing / stag metamorphosis), with Callimachus as earliest surviving poetic parallel; Acusilaus–Stesichorus Semele-rival strand noted
• Apollo and Cyrene: The Huntress and the Birth of Aristaeus (Pindar)
  Olympian gods — Apollo / Libyan–Thessalian foundation · Pindaric — Apollo’s love for Cyrene; Aristaeus born; Libya allotted
• Macris Nurses Dionysus on Euboea
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / Euboean nymph nursing · Apollonian — Macris daughter of Aristaeus shelters and honeys the infant god
• Aristaeus, the Bees, and Eurydice (Vergil-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — pastoral / bee aetiology; Orphic hinge · Roman primary narrative (Vergil, *Georgics* 4) of a Greek hero (Aristaeus); Greek notices of Aristaeus as pastoral culture-hero noted

Places appearing with them

• Aulis / Chalcis
• Cave of Chiron
• Cave of Macris
• Chiron’s cave
• Ethiopia
• Gates of Hades
• Hives of Aristaeus
• Mount Cithaeron
• Phaeacian land
• River Peneus
• Riverbank of Eurydice’s flight
• Spring and rock near Plataea
• Thebes
• Thessaly

Themes

• Birth
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• War