Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Cleobis and Biton (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Argive piety legend (Herodotean) · Herodotean classical legend (Solon’s exemplum of a happy life)
• Sosipolis at Olympia (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Eleian child-hero / Olympia cult · Pausanian — miraculous child becomes serpent; averts Arcadian invasion

Places appearing with them

• Elean–Arcadian battlefield
• Inner shrine
• Mount Helicon
• Pytho
• Sanctuary by Cronus’s hill at Olympia
• Sardis

Themes

• Sacrifice
• Succession
• War