Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryon (Helios’s Cup, Orthrus, Erytheia)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Erytheia/Gadira; triple-bodied Geryon; Orthrus and Eurytion; Helios’s golden cup; homeward cattle-drive with Eryx and Hera’s gadfly)
• Twelfth Labor: Cerberus and the Descent to Hades (Theseus and Pirithous)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Eleusinian initiation; Taenarum descent; Medusa phantom; Theseus raised, Pirithous left; Cerberus mastered without weapons; ascent via Troezen)

Places appearing with them

• Abderia
• Amyclae
• Eleusis
• Erytheia
• Gates of Acheron
• Gates of Hades
• Hades
• Hellespont
• Ionian Sea
• Libya and Europe
• Liguria
• Mount Abas
• Mount Etna
• Mycenae
• Pillars of Heracles
• Plain of Eryx
• Rhegium
• River Anthemus
• River Strymon
• Styx
• Tartessus
• Thrace
• Troezen
• Tyrrhenia

Themes

• Binding
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War