Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• The Minotaur and the Labyrinth: Ariadne’s Thread and Daedalus
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Ariadne’s love; thread; Theseus kills the Minotaur; escape from Daedalus’s Labyrinth)
• Daedalus and Icarus: The Flight from Crete
  Heroes — Daedalus · Apollodorean (wings of feathers and wax; Icarus falls; Daedalus to Sicily)
• Pasiphaë and the Bull
  Local and lesser — Cretan / Minos cycle · Apollodorean (Poseidon’s bull; Daedalus’s cow; birth of the Minotaur)
• Death of Minos in Sicily (Cocalus)
  Local and lesser — Cretan / Sicilian · Apollodorean (pursuit of Daedalus; Cocalus’s daughters; scalding bath)

Places appearing with them

• Iapygia
• Icarian Sea
• Mount Etna
• Mycenae
• Oenone
• Olympia
• Sirens’ island
• The deep

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• War