Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Zeus and Io
  Olympian gods / Argive · Apollodorean Argive (cow; Argus; gadfly; Egypt; Epaphus); Aeschylean tragic enrichment
• Phaethon and the Sun Chariot
  Olympian gods / Helios · Euripidean fragments + Roman transmission (Ovid) of the sun-chariot fall
• Epaphus: Son of Io, King in Egypt
  Heroes — Io line / Argive–Egyptian bridge · Apollodorean / Aeschylean destiny — Epaphus born of Zeus’s touch; Egyptian kingship

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Banks of Eridanus
• Bosporus
• Caucasus
• Egypt
• Eridanus
• Ethiopia
• Ionian Sea
• Memphis
• Palace of Helios in the east
• Path of the sun

Themes

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