Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (11)

• Arrival at Athens: Medea’s Poison and Recognition by the Sword
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Medea as Aegeus’s wife plots poison; recognition by sword/sandals; Medea flees)
• 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)
• Medea Rejuvenates Aeson (Ovid-Labeled)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus return) · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Medea’s true rejuvenation of Aeson — distinct from Pelias’s false boiling (074)
• Death of Jason: The Timber of the Argo
  Heroes — Jason / Argonautic aftermath · Euripidean prophecy + mythographic fulfillment (Argo’s beam)
• Anaphe and Apollo Aegletes
  Local and lesser — Argonautic return / Cycladic island aetiology · Apollonian — Apollo’s radiant epiphany; island appears; Aegletes cult

Places appearing with them

• Adriatic
• Altars of Hecate and Youth
• Anaphe
• Ankle of Talos
• Argo
• Asia
• Bronze cauldron
• Cauldron of Medea
• Circe’s land
• City
• Colchis
• Corinth
• Field (plain) of Ares
• Field of Ares
• House of Medea
• Iolcus
• Island shrine of Artemis
• Isthmus
• Malea
• Mouth of the Ister (Danube)
• Oenone
• Olympia
• Palace of Creon
• Phasis
• Sea (or coastal road) of the escape
• Sea of the return voyage
• Shrine of Hecate
• Thessalian countryside
• Troezen

Themes

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