Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (35)

• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• Birth of Dionysus: Semele, the Thunderbolt, and Zeus’s Thigh
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean / tragic (common classical Semele–thigh birth; Euripidean background)
• Hephaestus’s Revenge: The Golden Throne and Return to Olympus
  Olympian gods · Pausanian / Attic pictorial (with Hyginus transmitting a related Greek comic strand)
• Dionysus and the Tyrrhenian Pirates
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn VII (to Dionysus)
• Ino–Leucothea and Melicertes–Palaemon
  Olympian gods — Dionysiac family / sea-cult · Apollodorean / Homeric (Ino as Leucothea in *Odyssey*); tragic Athamas madness
• Dionysus and Lycurgus
  Olympian gods — Dionysus · Homeric (*Iliad* 6) / Apollodorean (Edonian persecution; madness; pruning shears)
• Dionysus and the Minyads
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / Boeotian resistance · Ovidian Roman narrative (+ Aelian / Plutarch / Antoninus Liberalis Greek notices of the daughters of Minyas)
• The Proetides: Madness and Melampus’s Cure
  Olympian gods / Argive — Hera or Dionysus; Melampus cross-link · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* (Proetides; Melampus’s bargain for Argos)
• Birth of Pan (Homeric Hymn 19)
  Olympian gods / rustic — Pan · Homeric Hymn to Pan (19)
• Dionysus and Ariadne: Marriage on Naxos (Olympian View)
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / Ariadne · Hesiodic marriage + Apollodorean / Pausanian Naxos epiphany (olympian bridal focus)
• Dionysus Retrieves Semele from Hades
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / apotheosis of Semele · Apollodorean / Pausanian — descent and renaming as Thyone
• Dionysus Turns the Pirates into Dolphins (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Dionysus · Homeric Hymn VII — metamorphosis climax isolated
• Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (26)
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXVI — Nysean nurses; ivy and woodland rearing
• Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (1) — Fragment
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / fragmentary Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn I — disputed birthplaces; Zeus and the god’s glory
• Macris Nurses Dionysus on Euboea
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / Euboean nymph nursing · Apollonian — Macris daughter of Aristaeus shelters and honeys the infant god
• Achelous and Deianeira: Contest for the Bride
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (river-god suitor; shape-shifting combat; broken horn; marriage to Deianeira)
• Ariadne on Naxos: Abandonment and Dionysus
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean main line (Theseus leaves Ariadne on Naxos/Dia; Dionysus takes her); alternate classical strands noted
• Death of Orpheus: The Maenads
  Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean / Pausanian (torn by Thracian/Macedonian women or Maenads; head and lyre)
• Pentheus and Dionysus (*Bacchae*): Theban Cult Myth
  Theban · Attic tragic — Euripides *Bacchae* (+ Apollodorean summary)
• Athamas’s Madness: From Fleece Intrigue to the Killing of Learchus
  Heroes — Aeolid / Athamas house (bridge between fleece origin and Ino’s leap) · Apollodorean (Hera’s madness after Dionysus-nursing; Learchus slain)
• Amphictyon, Son of Deucalion
  Heroes — Deucalionid / Attic king-list bridge · Apollodorean / Pausanian
• Cadmus and Harmonia: Serpents in Illyria
  Heroes — Theban founders / Illyrian end / metamorphosis · Apollodorean / Euripidean / Apollonian notices — exile, Encheleans, serpent forms
• Telephus in Mysia: The First Landing Mistake
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Teuthrania taken for Troy; wound and later healing)
• Euripides *Cyclops* (Satyr Play): Odysseus and Polyphemus
  Trojan — Odyssey side-tradition / satyr drama · Attic satyr play — Euripides *Cyclops* (vs. Homeric *Odyssey* 9)
• Midas: The Golden Touch and the Ass’s Ears
  Local and lesser — Phrygian · Roman handbook / Ovidian narrative of Greek Phrygian legends (labeled); Herodotus on historical Midas noted
• Silenus Captured by Midas (Phrygian)
  Local and lesser — Phrygian / Dionysiac · Classical Greek notices + handbook; Ovid/Hyginus labeled for continuous narrative link to the golden touch
• Rhoeo and Anius: Delian Myths
  Local and lesser — Delian / Apolline local myth · Apollodorean / Diodoran / cyclic notices (Rhoeo; Anius; Oenotropae)
• Icarius and Erigone: Dionysus’s Gift of Wine
  Local and lesser — Attic Dionysiac aetiology · Apollodorean / Eratosthenic / Attic handbook (Icarius; first wine; Erigone; Maera; catasterism)
• Orpheus’s Head and Lyre Reach Lesbos
  Local and lesser — Orphic aftermath / Lesbian cult aetiology · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Hellenistic (head floats singing; Lesbian oracle; lyre catasterized or dedicated)
• Maera the Dog: Discovery, Death, and Catasterism
  Local and lesser — Attic Dionysiac / astral aetiology · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean Icarius frame)
• The Aiora: Swing Festival and Expiation for Erigone
  Local and lesser — Attic ritual aetiology · Attic / Eratosthenic / lexicographic (Aiora founded after hanging-plague)
• Ariadne’s Crown among the Stars (Corona Borealis)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Dionysiac–Thesean · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean / Hesiodic marriage frame)
• The Hyades
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs / Dionysiac nurses · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook
• Boötes: Icarius among the Stars
  Local and lesser — catasterism / Attic Dionysiac aftermath · Classical astral — Icarius as Boötes (with Maera as dog-star)
• 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

• Aegean sea-path
• Argos
• Asia / Lydia
• Athens, sanctuary of Dionysus
• Attic countryside
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Banks of the river Trito
• Calydon
• Cave of Macris
• Chios
• Cliff Moluris
• Contested birthplaces
• Countryside of the Argolid
• Court of Midas
• Crete
• Cyprus
• Elysium
• Ethiopia
• Evenus
• Gardens of Midas
• Grove
• Hades
• Heaven
• Hecale
• Hera’s sanctuary
• House of Zeus
• Illyria
• Indoor loom-chamber
• Isthmus of Corinth
• Lerna
• Lesbos
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Cyllene
• Mount Etna
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Pangaeum
• Mountain
• Mountain peaks, ridges, rocky paths
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Naxos
• Northern sky
• Nysa
• Oenone
• Olympia
• Olympus
• Open sea
• Ortygia
• Palace of Pentheus
• Phaeacian land
• Phaeacian waters
• Pirate ship at sea
• Rhamnus
• River Achelous
• River Hebrus
• River Pactolus
• Sea chest voyage
• Sea-cliff
• Secret mountain
• Ships
• Shore
• Shore where Dionysus is seized
• Sicyon
• Spring of Midas
• Streams and thickets
• The deep
• The pirate ship at sea
• Thebes
• Thermopylae
• Thrace
• Tree of Erigone
• Trees
• Troezen
• Troy
• Underworld
• Well or hidden grave
• Zeus’s thigh

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Underworld
• War