Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Birth of Pan (Homeric Hymn 19)
  Olympian gods / rustic — Pan · Homeric Hymn to Pan (19)
• Hippolytus and Phaedra (Euripides)
  Heroes — Theseus · Attic tragic — Euripides, *Hippolytus* (Phaedra’s forbidden love; Theseus’s curse; Artemis and Aphrodite)
• Corinth: Jason, Medea, Glauce, and the Deaths of the Children (Euripides)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (aftermath) · Attic tragic — Euripides *Medea* (divorce for Glauce; poisoned gifts; filicide; Aegeus; escape to Athens)
• Myrrha (Smyrna): Birth of Adonis from the Myrrh Tree
  Local and lesser — Cypriot / Near Eastern birth aetiology · Apollodorean birth notice thickened; Ovid-labeled full incest narrative

Places appearing with them

• Arabia
• Corinth
• House of Medea
• Iolcus
• Mount Cyllene
• Mountain peaks, ridges, rocky paths
• Myrrh tree
• Olympia
• Palace of Creon
• Salamis
• Sea off Trozen
• Streams and thickets
• Troezen
• Underworld

Themes

• Birth
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge