Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Laius, Chrysippus, and the Oracle against a Son
  Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (Pelops curse; Delphic warning; Labdacid doom)
• Creon of Thebes: Tyranny after the Brothers
  Heroes — Theban / Creonid rule · Sophoclean / Euripidean / Apollodorean (post-Seven kingship)
• Menoeceus: Voluntary Sacrifice to Save Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Euripidean (*Phoenician Women*) / Apollodorean notice
• Eurydice of Thebes: Suicide after Haemon (Sophocles)
  Heroes — Theban / Antigone aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone*
• Marriage of Pylades and Electra
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath (also Trojan nostoi close) · Euripidean / Apollodorean handbook

Places appearing with them

• Argive camp
• Assembly
• Elis
• Household altar
• Mycenae
• Panopeus
• Pausanias’s tomb-spot
• Pytho
• Rock tomb
• Theban palace
• Thebes
• Walls

Themes

• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• War