Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (9)

• Achelous and Deianeira: Contest for the Bride
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (river-god suitor; shape-shifting combat; broken horn; marriage to Deianeira)
• Calydonian Boar Hunt: Setup — Oeneus and Artemis’s Wrath
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean (neglected first-fruits; Artemis sends the huge boar)
• Meleager and the Calydonian Hunt (Atalanta’s Role)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean (pan-Hellenic muster; Atalanta first wound; Meleager awards the hide; quarrel with uncles)
• Death of Meleager: The Brand of the Fates (Althaea)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean / Bacchylidean (Moirae’s brand; Althaea burns it after the uncles’ deaths)
• Meleager in Homer: Phoenix’s Digression (*Iliad* 9)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Homeric — Phoenix to Achilles (anger, withdrawal, city’s peril; no Fate-brand)
• Tydeus and Melanippus: Brains, Athena, and Denied Immortality
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Apollodorean / cyclic / scholiastic
• Nostoi: Diomedes in Aetolia and Italy
  Trojan cycle — Returns (*Nostoi*) · Epic Cycle / Apollodorean / local Italian Greek notices (Daunia; Islands of Diomedes)
• Glaucus and Diomedes: Guest-Friendship and Armor Exchange (*Iliad* 6)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian–Argive link · Homeric (*Iliad* 6)
• Phoenix’s Meleager Paradeigma (*Iliad* 9)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Meleager’s wrath as warning paradeigma inside Phoenix’s speech

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Assembly
• Calydon
• Daunia / Apulia
• Evenus
• Fields and vineyards of Calydon
• Greek camp at Troy
• Hades
• House of Meleager
• Islands of Diomedes
• Lycia
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Pleuron
• River Achelous
• Thebes

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Contest
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War