Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryon (Helios’s Cup, Orthrus, Erytheia)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Erytheia/Gadira; triple-bodied Geryon; Orthrus and Eurytion; Helios’s golden cup; homeward cattle-drive with Eryx and Hera’s gadfly)
• The Shield of Achilles: Homeric Ekphrasis (*Iliad* 18)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 18 · Homeric — Hephaestus’s cosmic and civic shield

Places appearing with them

• Abderia
• Earth, heaven, sea
• Erytheia
• Fields, vineyard, herd, dancing-floor
• Hellespont
• Hephaestus’s forge on Olympus
• Ionian Sea
• Libya and Europe
• Liguria
• Mount Abas
• Mount Etna
• Mycenae
• Ocean stream
• Pillars of Heracles
• Plain of Eryx
• Rhegium
• River Anthemus
• River Strymon
• Styx
• Tartessus
• Thrace
• Two cities
• Tyrrhenia

Themes

• Binding
• Marriage
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War