Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (10)

• Achelous and Deianeira: Contest for the Bride
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (river-god suitor; shape-shifting combat; broken horn; marriage to Deianeira)
• Nessus and Deianeira: The Centaur’s Poisoned Blood
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (ferry at the Evenus; attempted rape; Hydra-poisoned arrow; dying “love-charm” of blood and semen stored by Deianeira)
• Sack of Oechalia and the Taking of Iole (Apollodorus)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (revenge on Eurytus; city sacked; Iole taken as captive concubine; children of Eurytus slain)
• Iole at Trachis: Lichas’s Lie and the Truth (Sophocles)
  Heroes — Heracles · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Trachiniae* (captive train; Lichas’s false tale; messenger’s exposure; Deianeira recognizes Iole as rival)
• Trachis and the Poisoned Robe: Deianeira’s Gift and Heracles’ Agony
  Heroes — Heracles · Sophoclean / Apollodorean (robe anointed with Nessus’s blood; Lichas delivers it; Hydra venom burns; Lichas killed; Deianeira’s suicide)
• Pyre on Mount Oeta: The Death of Heracles
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (Heracles carried to Oeta; pyre built; Philoctetes or Poeas lights it; bow bequeathed; mortal body consumed)
• Death of Meleager: The Brand of the Fates (Althaea)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean / Bacchylidean (Moirae’s brand; Althaea burns it after the uncles’ deaths)
• Lichas and the Poisoned Robe
  Heroes — Heracles / Trachiniae endgame · Sophoclean / Apollodorean — Lichas brings the gift; Heracles hurls him to death
• Hyllus Marries Iole
  Heroes — Heracles aftermath / Trachiniae close / Heraclid marriage · Sophoclean / Apollodorean — dying Heracles exacts Hyllus’s marriage to Iole
• The Meleagrides: Sisters of Meleager Become Birds
  Local and lesser — Calydonian aftermath / bird metamorphosis · Antoninus Liberalis (Greek) + Ovid-labeled Roman enrichment — mourning sisters turned into meleagrides (guinea-fowl)

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Calydon
• Evenus
• Far bank of the Evenus
• Hades
• Mount Oeta
• Oechalia
• Pleuron
• River Achelous
• River Evenus
• Sea off Euboea
• Trachis
• Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Contest
• Exile
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Underworld
• War