Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (6)

• Parthenopaeus: Death at Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Hippomedon: Death at Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Polynices and Argia (Argeia): Marriage at Argos
  Heroes — Theban / Argive alliance · Apollodorean / tragic / cyclic (Adrastus’s daughters; lion and boar)
• Diomedes after Thebes: Epigonus and Argive King
  Heroes — Theban / Epigoni / Argive · Apollodorean / Homeric — Epigonus who becomes Trojan-war Argive leader
• Evadne Leaps onto Capaneus’s Pyre
  Heroes — Seven against Thebes aftermath / Euripidean *Suppliants* · Euripidean — widow’s suttee at Eleusis against her father’s will
• Athena Tips Diomedes to Wound Ares (*Iliad* 5)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 5 · Homeric — Athena as charioteer and guide against Ares

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Assembly
• Cap of Hades
• Capaneus’s pyre
• Eleusis
• His assigned gate
• His gate
• Ismenus
• Mount Helicon
• Thebes
• Troy
• Underworld

Themes

• Binding
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Underworld
• War