Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (26)

• Children of Pontus (Hesiodic Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Sea’s brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Pontus’s offspring)
• Iris the Messenger (Iliad)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — divine agents / Olympian household · Homeric (*Iliad*) — Iris as go-between; Hesiodic genealogy noted
• Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter
• Dionysus and the Minyads
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / Boeotian resistance · Ovidian Roman narrative (+ Aelian / Plutarch / Antoninus Liberalis Greek notices of the daughters of Minyas)
• Styx Allies Zeus: Nike, Kratos, Bia, and Zelos
  Olympian gods — divine household / Titanomachy rewards · Hesiodic — Styx’s primacy and her children’s seats beside Zeus
• Iris Fetches the Water of Styx for Oaths (Hesiod)
  Olympian gods — Iris / divine ritual · Hesiodic — Iris as bearer of Styx-water when gods swear
• Iris and the Harpies: Children of Thaumas
  Olympian gods / sea-born messengers — Thaumas’s line · Hesiodic — Iris and the Harpies as siblings from Thaumas and Electra
• Ninth Labor: Hippolyte’s Belt (Hera’s Rumor and the Death of the Queen)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Admete’s desire; Hippolyte first willing; Hera as Amazon spreads rumor; Heracles kills Hippolyte and takes the belt of Ares)
• Marriage of Pylades and Electra
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath (also Trojan nostoi close) · Euripidean / Apollodorean handbook
• Chrysothemis (Sophocles’ *Electra*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia (Electra’s sister) · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (foil sister)
• Clytemnestra’s Dream (Aeschylus and Sophocles)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — dream as omen before the matricide (Aeschylean and Sophoclean variants compared)
• Clytemnestra’s Dream of the Serpent (*Choephoroi*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (serpent nursed at the breast)
• Alcmaeon and Callirhoe: The Necklace’s Second Curse
  Heroes — Epigoni aftermath / Alcmaeon’s wanderings · Apollodorean — Psophis to Achelous; Callirhoe’s demand; death in Psophis
• Dardanus: Zeus, Electra, and the Founding of Dardania
  Heroes — Trojan royal stemma / Dardanid origins · Apollodorean / Homeric genealogical — Dardanus son of Zeus and Electra (Atlas)
• Alcmaeon at Psophis: Phegeus and the Necklace
  Heroes — Epigoni aftermath / Alcmaeon cycle / Arcadian Psophis · Apollodorean — Phegeus shelters Alcmaeon; necklace of Harmonia; murder and revenge
• Acarnan and Amphoterus: The Naming of Acarnania
  Heroes — Alcmaeon aftermath / Acarnanian eponym · Apollodorean / Thucydidean digression — sons of Alcmaeon and Callirhoe avenge and name the land
• Achilles’ Early Exploits in the Troad (Cypria)
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean summary level (raids before the *Iliad*)
• Quarrel at the Ships: Chryses, Plague, and the Taking of Briseis
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* Book 1 (Achilles’ wrath begins)
• Odysseus Leaves Calypso: Raft, Storm, and Landing on Scheria (*Odyssey* 5)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 5 (+ Apollodorean Ogygia notice)
• Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis; Cattle of Helios (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 12 (+ Apollodorean)
• Telemachus at Sparta: Menelaus and Helen (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — Spartan visit isolated from the Telemachy overview
• Hermes Orders Calypso to Release Odysseus (*Odyssey* 5)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ogygia · Homeric — Hermes’ embassy and Calypso’s bitter obedience
• Odysseus Returns Chryseis to Chryses (*Iliad* 1)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 1 · Homeric — voyage to Chryse; hecatomb; plague ends; Chryses’ prayer
• Achilles’ Heel: Late Invulnerability Tradition
  Trojan — Achilles death lore / later biographic aetiology · Late classical / Roman transmission — Styx-dip heel as the sole mortal spot (labeled)
• Iphis and Ianthe (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Cretan metamorphosis / marriage · **Roman** transmission (Ovid) of a Cretan sex-change and marriage tale
• Eos and Orion (Love of Dawn)
  Local and lesser — Dawn’s mortal loves / Orion cycle · Homeric / Hesiodic notices (+ Apollodorean / astral frame)

Places appearing with them

• Achaean camp
• Achaean ship
• Achelous delta
• Achelous mouth
• Achelous river
• Achilles’ hut
• Aenus
• Agamemnon’s tomb
• Air
• Amyclae
• Callichoron
• Chryse
• Circe’s land
• City
• Crete
• Dardania
• Depths where Nereids dwell
• Egypt
• Eleusis
• Elysian plain
• Field of the Titanomachy
• Hades
• Hearth and inner house
• Hearth of the Atreid house
• Heraclea
• House of Zeus
• Indoor loom-chamber
• Isis’s temple
• Islands of the Blessed
• Ithaca
• Lesbos
• Lycia
• Lyrnessus
• Marriage chamber
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Ida
• Mountain
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Ocean’s edge
• Ogygia
• Olympus
• Open sea
• Ortygia
• Panopeus
• Paros
• Parthenion
• Pedasus
• Plain of Nysa
• Pytho
• Rarian Field
• Rock and fall of Styx
• Samothrace
• Scheria
• Seashore by the ships
• Ships
• Shore of Ogygia
• Sirens’ island
• Strait of Scylla and Charybdis
• Styx
• Tenedos
• Thasos
• The deep
• Thebe Hypoplacia
• Themiscyra
• Thermodon
• Thetis’s grip-point
• Thorikos
• Thrinacia
• Tomb of Agamemnon
• Torone
• Trojan shore
• Troy
• Underworld
• Women’s quarters of the Argive palace

Themes

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