Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (11)

• Poseidon and Tyro: The Enipeus Deception; Birth of Pelias and Neleus
  Olympian gods / Aeolid heroic prelude · Homeric (*Odyssey* 11) / Apollodorean
• Prophecy of Pelias and Jason’s Return with One Sandal
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean / Pindaric (oracle of the one-sandaled man; Anaurus crossing; demand for the Golden Fleece)
• Building of the Argo and Gathering of the Argonauts
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (Athena’s design; Argus the builder; catalogue of heroes)
• Arrival at Colchis and Aeetes’s Tasks
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (audience with Aeetes; fire-breathing bulls; dragon-teeth warriors)
• Return to Iolcus and the Death of Pelias (Medea’s Rejuvenation Trick)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (fleece returned; daughters of Pelias deceived; Pelias boiled; exile)
• Admetus’s Wedding: Artemis Neglected and the Serpents in the Chamber
  Heroes — Thessalian / Admetus–Alcestis prelude · Apollodorean (wedding omission; Artemis’s wrath; Apollo’s remedy)
• Peleus, Acastus, and Astydameia
  Heroes — Aeacid / Thessalian (Peleus before Thetis) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (false accusation; abandonment among centaurs)
• Jason’s Education by Chiron
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (youth prelude) · Pindaric / Apollodorean brief (Pelion fosterage before the one sandal)
• Aeson and Pelias: Usurpation of Iolcus
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus prelude) · Apollodorean / Pindaric Aeolid (Cretheus; Tyro; Pelias seizes the throne)
• Medea Rejuvenates Aeson (Ovid-Labeled)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus return) · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Medea’s true rejuvenation of Aeson — distinct from Pelias’s false boiling (074)
• Sidero Slain by Pelias at Hera’s Altar
  Heroes — Aeolid / Tyro cycle / Pelias’s impiety · Apollodorean — cruel stepmother; twins’ vengeance; slaughter at Hera’s altar

Places appearing with them

• Altar of Hera
• Altars of Hecate and Youth
• Anaurus
• Bridal chamber
• Bronze cauldron
• Cauldron of Medea
• City
• Colchis
• Corinth
• Dodona
• Field (plain) of Ares
• Iolcus
• Iolcus region
• Messenia
• Mount Pelion
• Phasis
• Thessalian countryside
• Thessaly

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• War