Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
• Heracles and the Fifty Daughters of Thespius
  Heroes — Heracles / youth; Thespian progeny · Apollodorean / Pausanian — fifty nights; Thespiades as mothers of Heracles’ sons

Places appearing with them

• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae / Argolid
• Ocean’s streams
• Sardinia
• Thebes

Themes

• Birth
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Theft
• War