Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• After the Labors: Iphitus’s Murder and Sale to Omphale
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (labors complete; Eurytus and Iole; murder of Iphitus; Delphic sentence of servitude; Hermes sells Heracles to Omphale of Lydia)
• Omphale in Lydia: Service and Deeds under the Queen
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (three-year Lydian servitude; Cercopes; Syleus; other Asian deeds; release)
• Sack of Oechalia and the Taking of Iole (Apollodorus)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (revenge on Eurytus; city sacked; Iole taken as captive concubine; children of Eurytus slain)
• Heracles against Neleus and the Pylians
  Heroes — Heracles / side campaigns; Nestor’s background · Apollodorean / Homeric recollection (Neleus; eleven sons; Nestor spared)

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Asia Minor roads
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Gerenia
• Lydia
• Messenia
• Oechalia
• Pytho
• Trachis
• Vineyard of Syleus

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Theft
• Underworld
• War