Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (17)

• Artemis and Actaeon
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean “general opinion” (bathing / stag metamorphosis), with Callimachus as earliest surviving poetic parallel; Acusilaus–Stesichorus Semele-rival strand noted
• Asclepius: Birth from Coronis; Death by Zeus; Apollo’s Revenge on the Cyclopes
  Olympian gods / Asclepiad · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Coronis; crow; thunderbolt; Cyclopes; servitude to Admetus)
• Coronis and the Crow (Raven): The Informant Bird
  Olympian gods / Asclepiad prelude · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue*; Ovid-labeled Roman for white-to-black color change
• 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
• Birth of Chiron: Cronus and Philyra
  Olympian gods / Titan periphery — Chiron’s origin · Apollodorean / Hellenistic handbook — Cronus as horse; Philyra; centaur sage
• Fourth Labor: The Erymanthian Boar (and Pholus among the Centaurs)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (live capture of the boar; Pholus’s hospitality; centaur battle; Chiron’s incurable wound)
• Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Nereus, Atlas Holds the Sky)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (apples among Hyperboreans by Atlas; Nereus compelled for guidance; Atlas fetches fruit while Heracles bears the sky; craft-return of the burden; Ladon present as guardian but not slain in this plot)
• Prophecy of Pelias and Jason’s Return with One Sandal
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean / Pindaric (oracle of the one-sandaled man; Anaurus crossing; demand for the Golden Fleece)
• Peleus, Acastus, and Astydameia
  Heroes — Aeacid / Thessalian (Peleus before Thetis) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (false accusation; abandonment among centaurs)
• Achilles’ Childhood: Chiron, Scyros, Deidamia, and the Birth of Pyrrhus
  Heroes — Aeacid / Achilles youth (pre-Troy) · Apollodorean / cyclic / Statius-labeled Roman enrichment for Scyros household
• Chiron: Wound, Relinquished Immortality, and Teacher of Heroes
  Heroes — Centaur sage / Heracles aftermath / heroic education · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Hydra-arrow wound; immortality ceded; school of heroes)
• Jason’s Education by Chiron
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (youth prelude) · Pindaric / Apollodorean brief (Pelion fosterage before the one sandal)
• Aeson and Pelias: Usurpation of Iolcus
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus prelude) · Apollodorean / Pindaric Aeolid (Cretheus; Tyro; Pelias seizes the throne)
• Heracles Frees Prometheus
  Heroes — Heracles / Titan aftermath · Apollodorean (eagle slain; bonds loosed; Chiron’s immortality traded) — liberation focus
• Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: Eris and the Apple of Discord
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Pindaric wedding background)
• Peleus and Thetis: Courtship and Wrestling
  Local and lesser — Thessalian / Achillean prelude (before Trojan wedding) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (shape-shifting Nereid wrestled on the shore)
• Sagittarius: Crotus or Chiron the Archer (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / centaur-archer · Catasterismic handbook — Crotus (Musaean) or Chiron as Sagittarius

Places appearing with them

• Anaurus
• Arabia
• Caucasus
• Cave of Chiron
• Chiron’s cave
• Colchis
• Deep snow of Erymanthus
• Egypt
• Epidaurus
• Ethiopia
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Helicon
• Illyria
• Iolcus
• Land of the Hyperboreans
• Linden
• Malea
• Mecone
• Messenia
• Molossia
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Erymanthus
• Mount Pelion
• Mycenae
• Olympus
• Outer sea
• Path of the sun
• Pelion
• Pherae
• Pholoë
• Psophis
• Pyre of Coronis
• Pytho
• River Echedorus
• River Eridanus
• Scyros
• Shore
• Spring and rock near Plataea
• Thebes
• Thermydrae
• Thessaly
• Troy
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• Underworld
• War