Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Polydectes’s Demand: Hermes and Athena Equip Perseus
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (wedding-gift trick; divine guides and gear)
• Pelops and Oenomaus: The Chariot Race for Hippodamia
  Heroes — Tantalids / Pelops (Trojan genealogy gateway) · Apollodorean (Myrtilus’s sabotage; winged horses from Poseidon; curse on the Pelopids)
• Myrtilus: Betrayal, Murder, and the Curse on the Pelopids
  Heroes — Tantalids / Pelopid curse · Apollodorean / tragic (Myrtilus as hinge of the house-curse)
• Bones of Pelops Brought to Troy
  Trojan — Little Iliad / fall requirements · Apollodorean / cyclic handbook (Pelops’s bones among the conditions of capture)
• Olympia’s Older Foundations: Idaean Dactyls and Pelops (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Eleian / Olympia cult aetiology · Pausanian — pre-Heraclean foundations of the Olympic games

Places appearing with them

• Cretan Ida
• Elis
• Greek camp at Troy
• Isthmus of Corinth
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Myrtoan Sea
• Path toward the Graeae and Ocean
• Pelopion
• Peloponnesus
• Seriphos
• Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War