Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Atalanta’s Footrace: Melanion and the Golden Apples
  Heroes — Atalanta · Apollodorean Greek (Melanion; Aphrodite’s apples; metamorphosis into lions)
• Parthenopaeus: Death at Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Menoeceus: Voluntary Sacrifice to Save Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Euripidean (*Phoenician Women*) / Apollodorean notice
• The Embassy to Achilles
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 9 (with Book 8 as immediate cause)

Places appearing with them

• Achaean camp
• Achaean wall
• Achilles’ hut among the Myrmidon ships
• Argive camp
• Argos
• Garden of the Hesperides
• His assigned gate
• Mount Helicon
• Pausanias’s tomb-spot
• Plain by the Scamander
• Racecourse
• Sanctuary of Zeus
• Thebes
• Walls

Themes

• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• War