Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• First Labor: The Nemean Lion
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (invulnerable lion; strangling; Molorchus at Cleonae; skin as armor)
• 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
• Copreus: Herald of Eurystheus
  Heroes — Heracles / labor administration · Homeric / Apollodorean — Copreus as intermediary after Eurystheus’s fright

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Bronze pithos underground
• Cave of the lion
• Cleonae
• Elis
• Mycenae
• Theban battlefield
• Thebes

Themes

• Birth
• Petrification
• Sacrifice
• Underworld
• War