Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Fourth Labor: The Erymanthian Boar (and Pholus among the Centaurs)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (live capture of the boar; Pholus’s hospitality; centaur battle; Chiron’s incurable wound)
• Pirithous’s Wedding and the Centauromachy
  Local and lesser — Lapith / Thessalian; Theseus cycle cross-link · Homeric allusion + Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled full battle; Attic vase and temple sculpture tradition
• Caeneus: Gender Change and Invulnerable Lapith
  Local and lesser — Lapith / Centauromachy · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* / Ovid-labeled (Caenis; Poseidon; pine trees)
• Ariadne’s Crown among the Stars (Corona Borealis)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Dionysiac–Thesean · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean / Hesiodic marriage frame)

Places appearing with them

• Deep snow of Erymanthus
• House of Zeus
• Malea
• Mount Erymanthus
• Mount Pelion
• Mycenae
• Naxos
• Pholoë
• Pirithous’s wedding ground
• Poseidon’s shore
• Psophis
• Thessaly
• Underworld
• Wedding hall

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• War