Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (14)

• Prophecy of Pelias and Jason’s Return with One Sandal
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean / Pindaric (oracle of the one-sandaled man; Anaurus crossing; demand for the Golden Fleece)
• Building of the Argo and Gathering of the Argonauts
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (Athena’s design; Argus the builder; catalogue of heroes)
• Departure and the Women of Lemnos (Hypsipyle)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Lemnian women; Hypsipyle; sojourn and departure)
• Cyzicus and the Doliones: Friendly King Killed by Mistake
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (hospitality by night; mistaken battle; funeral games)
• Amycus and the Bebryces: Boxing Match of Polydeuces
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Amycus’s challenge; Polydeuces wins; Bebrycian rout)
• Phineus and the Harpies; the Boreads; Advice for the Symplegades
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (blind seer; Harpies driven off; guidance for the Clashing Rocks)
• The Symplegades (Clashing Rocks)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (dove test; Athena’s push; rocks fixed thereafter)
• Arrival at Colchis and Aeetes’s Tasks
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (audience with Aeetes; fire-breathing bulls; dragon-teeth warriors)
• Medea’s Aid: The Tasks Completed and the Taking of the Fleece
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (drugs; yoking; sown men; dragon lulled or slain; fleece taken)
• Murder of Apsyrtus: Ambush in the Adriatic (Apollonius)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (adult Apsyrtus pursues; lured to Artemis’s shrine; Jason kills him abroad)
• Murder of Apsyrtus: Child Slain and Dismembered (Apollodorus)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (young Apsyrtus taken from Colchis; killed and scattered to delay Aeetes)
• Talos on Crete
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (bronze guardian; ankle vein; Medea’s defeat of Talos)
• Return to Iolcus and the Death of Pelias (Medea’s Rejuvenation Trick)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (fleece returned; daughters of Pelias deceived; Pelias boiled; exile)
• Corinth: Jason, Medea, Glauce, and the Deaths of the Children (Euripides)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (aftermath) · Attic tragic — Euripides *Medea* (divorce for Glauce; poisoned gifts; filicide; Aegeus; escape to Athens)

Places appearing with them

• Adriatic
• Anaurus
• Ankle of Talos
• Argo
• Bebrycia
• Bosporus
• Cauldron of Medea
• Circe’s land
• City
• Colchis
• Corinth
• Dodona
• Field (plain) of Ares
• Field of Ares
• Hellespont
• House of Medea
• House of Phineus
• Iolcus
• Island shrine of Artemis
• Land of the Doliones
• Lycia
• Mount Dindymon
• Mount Pelion
• Mouth of the Ister (Danube)
• Oenone
• Olympia
• Palace of Creon
• Phasis
• Sea (or coastal road) of the escape
• Shrine of Hecate
• Strophades
• Symplegades
• The deep
• Thessaly
• Tomb of Cyzicus

Themes

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