Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (10)

• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• Birth of Dionysus: Semele, the Thunderbolt, and Zeus’s Thigh
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean / tragic (common classical Semele–thigh birth; Euripidean background)
• Cadmus and the Founding of Thebes (Dragon’s Teeth)
  Heroes — Cadmus / Theban cycle gateway · Apollodorean (Europa search; Delphic cow; Castalian dragon; Spartoi; Harmonia)
• Europa’s Abduction: Zeus and the Bull
  Heroes — Europa / Cretan kings (preface to Cadmus) · Apollodorean / Moschus (Zeus as bull; Crete; Minos, Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon)
• Pentheus and Dionysus (*Bacchae*): Theban Cult Myth
  Theban · Attic tragic — Euripides *Bacchae* (+ Apollodorean summary)
• Nycteus and Lycus: Theban Usurpation Setup
  Heroes — Theban political prelude (pre-Amphionid) · Apollodorean / Pausanian genealogical politics
• Labdacus and Laius: Lineage Bridge to the Labdacids
  Heroes — Theban / Labdacid genealogy · Apollodorean / Pausanian (thin reigns; exile of Laius; restoration after Amphionids)
• Division of Spoils; Sacrifice of Polyxena
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Euripides *Hecuba* / *Troades*
• Hecuba: Polymestor and Polydorus (Euripides)
  Trojan — Sack aftermath / early nostos · Attic tragic — Euripides *Hecuba* (Polymestor–Polydorus plot; Polyxena cross-ref 038)
• Hecuba Transformed into a Dog
  Trojan — Sack aftermath / Hecuba end · Euripidean prophecy + Ovid-labeled metamorphosis / Cynossema aetiology

Places appearing with them

• Achaean camp on the Thracian
• Achaean ships
• Achilles’ tomb
• Asia / Lydia
• Banks of the river Trito
• Cynossema
• Elis
• Elysium
• Heaven
• Hecuba’s tent
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Pangaeum
• Nysa
• Oenone
• Olympus
• Palace of Pentheus
• Phoenicia
• Pytho
• Sea-shore
• Sicyon
• Spring of Ares
• The deep
• Thebes
• Thracian Chersonese
• Tomb of Achilles in the Troad
• Trojan shore
• Underworld
• Zeus’s thigh

Themes

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