Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Zeus and Leda: Helen and the Dioscuri
  Olympian gods / Spartan / Trojan gateway · Apollodorean / Homeric (swan; eggs; dual paternity of Dioscuri and Helen)
• Dioscuri: Castor’s Death and Shared Immortality
  Olympian gods / Spartan Dioscuri · Homeric / Pindaric / Apollodorean (cattle raid; Idas and Lynceus; alternate days)
• Homeric Hymns to the Dioscuri (17 and 33)
  Olympian gods — Dioscuri / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns XVII and XXXIII — Tyndarids as horse-tamers and saviors of sailors
• Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
• Amycus and the Bebryces: Boxing Match of Polydeuces
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Amycus’s challenge; Polydeuces wins; Bebrycian rout)

Places appearing with them

• Amyclae
• Bebrycia
• Hellespont
• Messenia
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae / Argolid
• Ocean’s streams
• Olympus and Hades
• Open sea
• Sparta
• Tartarus
• Taygetus
• Thebes
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War