Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
• Madness of Heracles: Murder of the Children (Apollodorean, before the Labors)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Hera-sent madness in Thebes *before* service to Eurystheus; Megara’s sons killed; purification then Delphi)
• Madness of Heracles: Murder of Wife and Children (Euripidean, after the Labors)
  Heroes — Heracles · Attic tragic — Euripides (madness *after* return from the labors; Lycus episode; Megara slain; Theseus as comforter)
• After the Labors: Iphitus’s Murder and Sale to Omphale
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (labors complete; Eurytus and Iole; murder of Iphitus; Delphic sentence of servitude; Hermes sells Heracles to Omphale of Lydia)
• Sack of Oechalia and the Taking of Iole (Apollodorus)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (revenge on Eurytus; city sacked; Iole taken as captive concubine; children of Eurytus slain)

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Hades
• House of Heracles
• Lydia
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Mycenae / Argolid
• Ocean’s streams
• Oechalia
• Olympia
• Pytho
• Thebes
• Trachis

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Theft
• Underworld
• War