Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Offspring of Echidna and Typhon (Hesiodic Monster Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — monster genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue (*Theogony* Typhonid brood)
• First Labor: The Nemean Lion
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (invulnerable lion; strangling; Molorchus at Cleonae; skin as armor)
• Molorchus of Cleonae and the Nemean Lion
  Heroes — Heracles / Nemean labor hospitality aetiology · Callimachean (+ Apollodorean labor frame) — poor host Molorchus; postponed sacrifice
• Leo: The Nemean Lion among the Stars (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Heracles’s First Labor · Catasterismic handbook — Nemean lion as Leo

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Cave of the lion
• Cleonae
• Echidna’s cave
• Erytheia
• Hades
• Lerna
• Lycia
• Mycenae
• Path of the sun
• Tartarus
• Thebes

Themes

• Birth
• Hospitality
• Petrification
• Sacrifice
• Underworld
• War