Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Dioscuri: Castor’s Death and Shared Immortality
  Olympian gods / Spartan Dioscuri · Homeric / Pindaric / Apollodorean (cattle raid; Idas and Lynceus; alternate days)
• The Danaids: Murder of the Sons of Aegyptus
  Local and lesser — Argive · Apollodorean (+ Aeschylean *Suppliants* frame; underworld punishment tradition)
• Lynceus and Hypermnestra: Survival and the Argive Line
  Local and lesser — Argive succession · Apollodorean / tragic (*Danaid* trilogy aftermath); Pausanian cult notices
• The Danaids’ Punishment: Leaky Jars in the Underworld
  Local and lesser — Argive / underworld punishment · Classical underworld tradition (lyric, tragic, and handbook) attached to the Danaid crime

Places appearing with them

• Amyclae
• Argos
• Burial places / Lernaean waters
• Gates of Hades
• Larisa
• Messenia
• Olympus and Hades
• Pytho
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Succession
• Theft
• Underworld
• War