Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Cadmus and the Founding of Thebes (Dragon’s Teeth)
  Heroes — Cadmus / Theban cycle gateway · Apollodorean (Europa search; Delphic cow; Castalian dragon; Spartoi; Harmonia)
• Europa’s Abduction: Zeus and the Bull
  Heroes — Europa / Cretan kings (preface to Cadmus) · Apollodorean / Moschus (Zeus as bull; Crete; Minos, Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon)
• Europa’s Sons in Crete: Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon
  Heroes — Cretan royal foundations / Europa cycle aftermath · Apollodorean / Homeric — three sons of Zeus and Europa; Cretan kingship; Sarpedon’s dual identity
• Cadmus and His Brothers Search for Europa
  Heroes — Europa cycle / Phoenician diaspora / Theban prelude · Apollodorean — Agenor’s command; Phoenix, Cilix, Cadmus, Telephassa disperse
• Euphemus and the Clod of Libya
  Heroes — Argonautica / Theran–Cyrenean colonial charter · Apollonian / Pindaric — Triton gives Euphemus a clod; destiny of Thera and Cyrene
• The Three Judges of the Dead (Minos, Rhadamanthys, Aeacus)
  Local and lesser — underworld eschatology · Platonic / Apollodorean / Homeric (Minos) overview
• Taurus: Zeus’s Bull and Europa (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Zeus and Europa · Catasterismic handbook — bull of Europa (or Io) as Taurus

Places appearing with them

• Cilicia
• Elysium
• Ethiopia
• Gates of Hades
• Lycia
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Pangaeum
• Mycenae
• Oenone
• Ortygia
• Path of the sun
• Phoenicia
• Pytho
• Sea crossing
• Spring of Ares
• Tartarus
• Thebes
• Thera

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War