Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Seventh Labor: The Cretan Bull
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (bull of Crete brought alive; released; later the Marathonian bull)
• Tribute to Minos and the Voyage to Crete
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Androgeus’s death; Athenian tribute of youths and maidens; Theseus volunteers)
• The Minotaur and the Labyrinth: Ariadne’s Thread and Daedalus
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Ariadne’s love; thread; Theseus kills the Minotaur; escape from Daedalus’s Labyrinth)
• Daedalus and Icarus: The Flight from Crete
  Heroes — Daedalus · Apollodorean (wings of feathers and wax; Icarus falls; Daedalus to Sicily)
• Death of Androgeus and the Origin of the Athenian Tribute
  Heroes — Theseus prelude / Minos–Athens quarrel · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Androgeus slain in Attica; Minos wars; tribute of youths
• Polyidus and Glaucus of Crete
  Local and lesser — Cretan · Apollodorean (seer Polyidus; drowned boy; snake and herb)
• Pasiphaë and the Bull
  Local and lesser — Cretan / Minos cycle · Apollodorean (Poseidon’s bull; Daedalus’s cow; birth of the Minotaur)

Places appearing with them

• Honey pithos
• Icarian Sea
• Isthmus
• Isthmus of Corinth
• Labyrinth
• Mount Etna
• Mycenae
• Oenone
• Olympia
• Ortygia
• Paros
• Rhamnus
• Sea between Athens and Crete
• Sirens’ island
• Sparta and Arcadia
• The deep
• Tomb chamber

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• War