Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (21)

• Dionysus and Ariadne: Marriage on Naxos (Olympian View)
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / Ariadne · Hesiodic marriage + Apollodorean / Pausanian Naxos epiphany (olympian bridal focus)
• Britomartis–Dictynna: The Cretan Chase and the Nets
  Olympian gods / Cretan local — companion of Artemis · Callimachean / Pausanian Cretan — Britomartis flees Minos; nets; Dictynna
• Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Aeacus: Judges of the Dead
  Olympian gods / underworld order — judicial afterlife · Homeric / Platonic / Apollodorean — three mortal kings as underworld judges
• Seventh Labor: The Cretan Bull
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (bull of Crete brought alive; released; later the Marathonian bull)
• Ninth Labor: Hippolyte’s Belt (Hera’s Rumor and the Death of the Queen)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Admete’s desire; Hippolyte first willing; Hera as Amazon spreads rumor; Heracles kills Hippolyte and takes the belt of Ares)
• Tribute to Minos and the Voyage to Crete
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Androgeus’s death; Athenian tribute of youths and maidens; Theseus volunteers)
• The Minotaur and the Labyrinth: Ariadne’s Thread and Daedalus
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Ariadne’s love; thread; Theseus kills the Minotaur; escape from Daedalus’s Labyrinth)
• Theseus and the Amazons: Antiope (or Hippolyte)
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus takes Amazon bride Antiope or Hippolyte; Amazon invasion of Attica)
• Hippolytus and Phaedra (Euripides)
  Heroes — Theseus · Attic tragic — Euripides, *Hippolytus* (Phaedra’s forbidden love; Theseus’s curse; Artemis and Aphrodite)
• Talos on Crete
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (bronze guardian; ankle vein; Medea’s defeat of Talos)
• Daedalus and Icarus: The Flight from Crete
  Heroes — Daedalus · Apollodorean (wings of feathers and wax; Icarus falls; Daedalus to Sicily)
• Europa’s Abduction: Zeus and the Bull
  Heroes — Europa / Cretan kings (preface to Cadmus) · Apollodorean / Moschus (Zeus as bull; Crete; Minos, Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon)
• Europa’s Sons in Crete: Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon
  Heroes — Cretan royal foundations / Europa cycle aftermath · Apollodorean / Homeric — three sons of Zeus and Europa; Cretan kingship; Sarpedon’s dual identity
• Death of Androgeus and the Origin of the Athenian Tribute
  Heroes — Theseus prelude / Minos–Athens quarrel · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Androgeus slain in Attica; Minos wars; tribute of youths
• Idomeneus and the Vow (Human Sacrifice / Exile)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Cretan return · Apollodorean / Servian–handbook nostos (vow; plague; exile)
• Procris and Cephalus (Apollodorus)
  Local and lesser — Attic / Cephallenian marital tragedy · Apollodorean (gifts of Artemis; accidental killing); Pherecydes / tragic fragments
• Scylla and Nisus: The Purple Lock
  Local and lesser — Megarian / Cretan war · Apollodorean / Pausanian (+ Ciris tradition; Ovid labeled Roman for fullest metamorphosis)
• Polyidus and Glaucus of Crete
  Local and lesser — Cretan · Apollodorean (seer Polyidus; drowned boy; snake and herb)
• Pasiphaë and the Bull
  Local and lesser — Cretan / Minos cycle · Apollodorean (Poseidon’s bull; Daedalus’s cow; birth of the Minotaur)
• Death of Minos in Sicily (Cocalus)
  Local and lesser — Cretan / Sicilian · Apollodorean (pursuit of Daedalus; Cocalus’s daughters; scalding bath)
• The Three Judges of the Dead (Minos, Rhadamanthys, Aeacus)
  Local and lesser — underworld eschatology · Platonic / Apollodorean / Homeric (Minos) overview

Places appearing with them

• Aenus
• Ankle of Talos
• Areopagus
• Chios
• Crete
• Daunia / Apulia
• Dicte
• Elysian plain
• Elysium
• Gates of Hades
• Hades
• Heraclea
• Honey pithos
• Iapygia
• Icarian Sea
• Isthmus
• Isthmus of Corinth
• Labyrinth
• Lycia
• Megara
• Mount Etna
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Naxos
• Oenone
• Olympia
• Ortygia
• Paros
• Phoenicia
• Rhamnus
• Sea between Athens and Crete
• Sea off Megara
• Sea off Trozen
• Sirens’ island
• Sparta and Arcadia
• Tartarus
• Thasos
• The deep
• Thebes
• Themiscyra
• Thermodon
• Tomb chamber
• Torone
• Troezen
• Troy
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War