Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Apollo, Marpessa, and Idas
  Olympian gods — Apollo / mortal love contest · Homeric / Apollodorean (Idas vs. Apollo; Marpessa’s choice)
• Phineus and the Harpies; the Boreads; Advice for the Symplegades
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (blind seer; Harpies driven off; guidance for the Clashing Rocks)
• Death of Meleager: The Brand of the Fates (Althaea)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean / Bacchylidean (Moirae’s brand; Althaea burns it after the uncles’ deaths)
• Meleager in Homer: Phoenix’s Digression (*Iliad* 9)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Homeric — Phoenix to Achilles (anger, withdrawal, city’s peril; no Fate-brand)
• The Embassy to Achilles
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 9 (with Book 8 as immediate cause)
• Ceyx and Alcyone
  Local and lesser — Trachinian / Aeolian metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Greek pair; Apollodorean brief notice of Ceyx
• The Pleiades: Daughters of Atlas (and Orion’s Pursuit)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook (Eratosthenes / Hyginus)

Places appearing with them

• Achaean camp
• Achaean wall
• Achilles’ hut among the Myrmidon ships
• Argos
• Assembly
• Calydon
• Colchis
• Greek camp at Troy
• Hades
• House of Meleager
• House of Phineus
• Messenia
• Mount Helicon
• Plain by the Scamander
• Pleuron
• River Evenus
• Shore of Trachis
• Smyrna
• Strophades
• Symplegades
• The deep
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Succession
• Underworld
• War