Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Dionysus and Lycurgus
  Olympian gods — Dionysus · Homeric (*Iliad* 6) / Apollodorean (Edonian persecution; madness; pruning shears)
• Death of Orpheus: The Maenads
  Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean / Pausanian (torn by Thracian/Macedonian women or Maenads; head and lyre)
• Andromache Learns Hector Is Dead (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 22 end) — recognition from the wall
• Orpheus’s Head and Lyre Reach Lesbos
  Local and lesser — Orphic aftermath / Lesbian cult aetiology · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Hellenistic (head floats singing; Lesbian oracle; lyre catasterized or dedicated)
• Lyra: The Lyre of Orpheus (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orpheus · Catasterismic handbook — Orpheus’s lyre placed among the stars

Places appearing with them

• Aegean sea-path
• Hector’s house in Troy
• Lesbos
• Mount Pangaeum
• Mysia
• Nysa
• Plain toward the ships
• River Hebrus
• The deep
• Thrace
• Underworld
• Wall of Troy

Themes

• Binding
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Underworld
• War