Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (6)

• Birth of Dionysus: Semele, the Thunderbolt, and Zeus’s Thigh
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean / tragic (common classical Semele–thigh birth; Euripidean background)
• Ino–Leucothea and Melicertes–Palaemon
  Olympian gods — Dionysiac family / sea-cult · Apollodorean / Homeric (Ino as Leucothea in *Odyssey*); tragic Athamas madness
• Nephele and Athamas: The Cloud-Wife and Ino’s Intrigue
  Heroes — Aeolid / Golden Fleece origin (pre-Argonautica) · Apollodorean / handbook (Nephele; Ino’s plot; famine and oracle)
• Athamas’s Madness: From Fleece Intrigue to the Killing of Learchus
  Heroes — Aeolid / Athamas house (bridge between fleece origin and Ino’s leap) · Apollodorean (Hera’s madness after Dionysus-nursing; Learchus slain)
• Athamas and Themisto
  Heroes — Athamantid / Boeotian–Thessalian tragedy · Apollodorean / Hyginus — Themisto’s plot; mistaken filicide; Athamas’s further ruin
• The Hyades
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs / Dionysiac nurses · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook

Places appearing with them

• Altar of sacrifice
• Boeotia / Orchomenus
• Cliff Moluris
• Ethiopia
• Household chambers
• Isthmus of Corinth
• Mount Helicon
• Mountain
• Nysa
• Phaeacian waters
• Pytho
• Sea-cliff
• The deep
• Thebes
• Underworld
• Zeus’s thigh

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• War