Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (12)

• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• Phobos and Deimos: Children of Ares
  Olympian gods — Ares / personified war-terrors · Hesiodic / Homeric — Fear and Terror as Ares’s sons and attendants
• Cadmus and the Founding of Thebes (Dragon’s Teeth)
  Heroes — Cadmus / Theban cycle gateway · Apollodorean (Europa search; Delphic cow; Castalian dragon; Spartoi; Harmonia)
• Pentheus and Dionysus (*Bacchae*): Theban Cult Myth
  Theban · Attic tragic — Euripides *Bacchae* (+ Apollodorean summary)
• Labdacus and Laius: Lineage Bridge to the Labdacids
  Heroes — Theban / Labdacid genealogy · Apollodorean / Pausanian (thin reigns; exile of Laius; restoration after Amphionids)
• Menoeceus: Voluntary Sacrifice to Save Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Euripidean (*Phoenician Women*) / Apollodorean notice
• Eriphyle Bribed: Amphiaraus Forced against Thebes
  Heroes — Seven Against Thebes / Argive muster · Apollodorean / cyclic — necklace of Harmonia as bribe
• Alcmaeon and Callirhoe: The Necklace’s Second Curse
  Heroes — Epigoni aftermath / Alcmaeon’s wanderings · Apollodorean — Psophis to Achelous; Callirhoe’s demand; death in Psophis
• Wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia: The Necklace and the Robe
  Heroes — Theban foundation / Cadmus · Apollodorean / Pausanian — divine wedding gifts; cursed heirlooms
• Cadmus and Harmonia: Serpents in Illyria
  Heroes — Theban founders / Illyrian end / metamorphosis · Apollodorean / Euripidean / Apollonian notices — exile, Encheleans, serpent forms
• Cadmus and His Brothers Search for Europa
  Heroes — Europa cycle / Phoenician diaspora / Theban prelude · Apollodorean — Agenor’s command; Phoenix, Cilix, Cadmus, Telephassa disperse
• Ino-Leucothea Gives Odysseus the Veil (*Odyssey* 5)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings / Scheria approach · Homeric — sea-goddess’s veil as charm against drowning

Places appearing with them

• Achelous river
• Argive camp
• Asia / Lydia
• Banks of the river Trito
• Cilicia
• Elis
• Elysium
• Heaven
• House of Cadmus
• Illyria
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Pangaeum
• Mycenae
• Olympus
• Open sea after Ogygia
• Ortygia
• Palace of Pentheus
• Pausanias’s tomb-spot
• Phoenicia
• Pytho
• River-mouth on Scheria
• Samothrace
• Spring of Ares
• Thebes
• Trojan battlefield
• Underworld
• Walls

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Underworld
• War