Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Offspring of Echidna and Typhon (Hesiodic Monster Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — monster genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue (*Theogony* Typhonid brood)
• The Topography of Tartarus (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld geography / cosmic architecture · Hesiodic — Tartarus’s measures, gates, and residents beyond Titan imprisonment alone
• Madness of Heracles: Murder of Wife and Children (Euripidean, after the Labors)
  Heroes — Heracles · Attic tragic — Euripides (madness *after* return from the labors; Lycus episode; Megara slain; Theseus as comforter)
• Twelfth Labor: Cerberus and the Descent to Hades (Theseus and Pirithous)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Eleusinian initiation; Taenarum descent; Medusa phantom; Theseus raised, Pirithous left; Cerberus mastered without weapons; ascent via Troezen)
• Theseus and Pirithous in Hades: The Attempt on Persephone
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (descent to seize Persephone; binding on the Chair of Forgetfulness; Heracles frees Theseus)
• Shade of Heracles in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Heracles / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — eidolon in Hades while the god feasts on Olympus
• Eurystheus Hides in the Bronze Jar
  Heroes — Heracles / labors aftermath delivery · Apollodorean / pictorial classical tradition — Eurystheus cowers in a jar when Heracles brings live monsters

Places appearing with them

• Amyclae
• Argos
• Borders of earth
• Bronze fence and Poseidon’s gates
• Bronze pithos underground
• Chair of Forgetfulness
• Echidna’s cave
• Edge of Ocean
• Eleusis
• Erytheia
• Gates of Acheron
• Gates of Hades
• Hades
• Halls of Sleep and Death
• House of Hades and Persephone
• House of Heracles
• House of Night and Day
• House of Styx
• Lerna
• Lycia
• Mycenae
• Olympia
• Olympus
• Tartarus
• Theban battlefield
• Thebes
• Troezen

Themes

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