Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryon (Helios’s Cup, Orthrus, Erytheia)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Erytheia/Gadira; triple-bodied Geryon; Orthrus and Eurytion; Helios’s golden cup; homeward cattle-drive with Eryx and Hera’s gadfly)
• Heracles and Eryx: Wrestling for the Bull
  Heroes — Heracles / side episode on the Geryon cattle-drive · Apollodorean — Eryx slain in wrestling after a runaway bull reaches Sicily

Places appearing with them

• Abderia
• Assembly
• Erytheia
• Hellespont
• Ionian Sea
• Libya and Europe
• Liguria
• Mount Abas
• Mount Etna
• Mycenae
• Pillars of Heracles
• Plain of Eryx
• Rhegium
• River Anthemus
• River Strymon
• Strait of Messina
• Styx
• Tartessus
• Thrace
• Tyrrhenia

Themes

• Binding
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War