Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
• Linus: Aetiology of the Mourning Song
  Local and lesser — musical aetiology / harvest lament · Homeric / Hesiodic / Pindaric / Pausanian (multiple Linus figures; song *ailinon*)
• Coroebus and Poine at Argos (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Argive local / Apollo’s vengeance aetiology · Pausanian Argive — Poine sent for Psamathe’s death; Coroebus slays her
• Psamathe, Linus, and Crotopus
  Local and lesser — Argive aetiology / Apollo’s child Linus / Poena · Pausanian / Conon — Crotopus’s daughter; exposed Linus; Poena and Coroebus sequel

Places appearing with them

• Megara
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Mycenae / Argolid
• Mysia
• Ocean’s streams
• Phoenicia
• Pytho
• Scironian Rocks
• Thebes
• Vintage scene

Themes

• Birth
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Theft
• War