Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Phineus and the Harpies; the Boreads; Advice for the Symplegades
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (blind seer; Harpies driven off; guidance for the Clashing Rocks)
• Erichthonius and Tros: Wealth, Horses, and the Trojan Name
  Heroes — Trojan royal stemma / middle generations · Apollodorean / Homeric — Erichthonius; Tros; naming of Trojans; horses of Zeus
• Iris Summons the Winds for Patroclus’s Pyre (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / funeral of Patroclus / divine messengers · Homeric (*Iliad* 23)
• Oreithyia and Boreas
  Local and lesser — Attic / Thracian wind myth · Apollodorean / Platonic Attic (abduction from the Ilissus); Herodotus on Boreas as Athenian ally

Places appearing with them

• Achaean shore
• Artemisium / Magnesia
• Colchis
• Dardania
• House of Phineus
• House of the Winds
• Mysia
• Ocean’s stream
• Strophades
• Symplegades
• Thracian sea
• Troezen
• Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Underworld
• War