Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• 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
• 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)

Places appearing with them

• Cliff Moluris
• Isthmus of Corinth
• Mount Helicon
• Mountain
• Nysa
• Phaeacian waters
• Sea-cliff
• The deep
• Thebes
• Zeus’s thigh

Themes

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