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)
• Pirithous’s Wedding and the Centauromachy
  Local and lesser — Lapith / Thessalian; Theseus cycle cross-link · Homeric allusion + Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled full battle; Attic vase and temple sculpture tradition

Places appearing with them

• Abderia
• Erytheia
• Hellespont
• Ionian Sea
• Libya and Europe
• Liguria
• Mount Abas
• Mount Etna
• Mount Pelion
• Mycenae
• Pillars of Heracles
• Plain of Eryx
• Rhegium
• River Anthemus
• River Strymon
• Styx
• Tartessus
• Thessaly
• Thrace
• Tyrrhenia
• Wedding hall

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War