Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Birth of Aegisthus: Thyestes and Pelopia
  Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean; prelude to Agamemnon’s murder · Apollodorean / Hyginus (oracle; night rape; sword-token; recognition)
• Polyidus and Glaucus of Crete
  Local and lesser — Cretan · Apollodorean (seer Polyidus; drowned boy; snake and herb)

Places appearing with them

• Atreus’s flocks
• Honey pithos
• Isthmus
• Mycenae
• Sicyon
• Tomb chamber

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Theft
• War