Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter
• Twelfth Labor: Cerberus and the Descent to Hades (Theseus and Pirithous)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Eleusinian initiation; Taenarum descent; Medusa phantom; Theseus raised, Pirithous left; Cerberus mastered without weapons; ascent via Troezen)
• Erechtheus, Eumolpus, and the Sacrifice of the Daughters
  Heroes — Attic kings / Eleusinian war · Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Erechtheus*) / Lycurgan oratory
• Tenes of Tenedos
  Heroes / Trojan periphery — Tenedian eponym / Achilles cycle · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cyclic notices — false accusation; exile; Achilles’ killing

Places appearing with them

• Amyclae
• Callichoron
• Crete
• Eleusis
• Erechtheum
• Gates of Acheron
• Gates of Hades
• Hades
• Mount Pangaeum
• Mycenae
• Olympus
• Parthenion
• Plain of Nysa
• Rarian Field
• Rhamnus
• Tenedos
• The deep
• Thorikos
• Troezen
• Troy
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War