Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• The Proetides: Madness and Melampus’s Cure
  Olympian gods / Argive — Hera or Dionysus; Melampus cross-link · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* (Proetides; Melampus’s bargain for Argos)
• Bias, Pero, and the Cattle of Phylacus
  Heroes — Melampodid / Pylian bride-price · Apollodorean / Odyssey genealogical — Melampus wins Pero for Bias
• Melampus in Prison: The Cure of Iphiclus
  Heroes — Melampus / Neleid–Iolcian seers / Phylace · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* — woodworms prophesy; Melampus heals Iphiclus’s impotence
• Theoclymenus Prophesies the Suitors’ Doom (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Melampodid seer; bird-omen and hall vision
• Melampus the Seer
  Local and lesser — Argive / Amythaonid seers · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* tradition (serpents; cattle of Phylacus; Proetides)

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Countryside of the Argolid
• Hera’s sanctuary
• Messenia
• Mount Pelion
• Odysseus’s palace hall
• Rock tomb
• Ship approaching Ithaca
• Sicyon

Themes

• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Theft
• War