Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (9)

• Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter
• Demeter Nurses Demophon: Celeus and Metaneira (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Demeter / Eleusinian prelude · Homeric Hymn to Demeter — Demophon episode (distinct from Triptolemus grain-mission)
• Thetis and the Invulnerability of Achilles (Styx / Fire Variants)
  Heroes — Aeacid / Achilles childhood · Classical handbook and scholiastic variants (Styx; fire-and-ambrosia); Homeric Achilles is *not* invulnerable
• Death of Theseus: Lycomedes on Scyros
  Heroes — Theseus (end) · Apollodorean / Plutarchan biographical tradition
• Heraclidae at Athens: Death of Eurystheus
  Heroes — Heraclidae / Attic asylum · Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Heraclidae*) — Attic refuge and Eurystheus’s end
• Phyllis and Demophon: The Almond Tree of Thrace
  Heroes — Theseid nostoi / Thracian local · Apollodorean Epitome + Ovid-labeled Roman letters (*Heroides*)
• Macaria’s Sacrifice (*Heraclidae*)
  Heroes — Heraclidae / Attic tragic asylum · Attic tragic — Euripides *Heraclidae*; voluntary maiden sacrifice for victory
• Paris and Menelaus: Duel and the Broken Truce
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 3–4
• Aethra Recovered at Troy by Acamas and Demophon
  Trojan — Sack / Theseid nostoi · Cyclic / Apollodorean / Plutarchan — Theseus’s mother freed from Helen’s service

Places appearing with them

• Achaean lines
• Assembly
• Callichoron
• Crete
• Eleusis
• Hades
• Marathonian Tetrapolis
• Mount Pangaeum
• Mycenae
• Olympia
• Olympus
• Paris’s bedroom in Troy
• Parthenion
• Plain between the armies
• Plain of Nysa
• Rarian Field
• Rhamnus
• Scironian Road
• Scyros
• Shore
• Temple and altar below the city
• The deep
• Thessaly
• Thorikos
• Troezen
• Troy
• Underworld
• Walls of Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Underworld
• War