Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (12)

• First Labor: The Nemean Lion
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (invulnerable lion; strangling; Molorchus at Cleonae; skin as armor)
• Tantalus: Crime and Punishment
  Heroes — Tantalids / Pelops · Homeric underworld punishment + Apollodorean crimes (feast of Pelops; theft of nectar/ambrosia)
• Pelops and Oenomaus: The Chariot Race for Hippodamia
  Heroes — Tantalids / Pelops (Trojan genealogy gateway) · Apollodorean (Myrtilus’s sabotage; winged horses from Poseidon; curse on the Pelopids)
• Laius, Chrysippus, and the Oracle against a Son
  Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (Pelops curse; Delphic warning; Labdacid doom)
• Atreus and Thyestes: The Golden Lamb and the Adultery
  Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean succession · Apollodorean / tragic (golden lamb; Aerope’s adultery; exile)
• Labdacus and Laius: Lineage Bridge to the Labdacids
  Heroes — Theban / Labdacid genealogy · Apollodorean / Pausanian (thin reigns; exile of Laius; restoration after Amphionids)
• Myrtilus: Betrayal, Murder, and the Curse on the Pelopids
  Heroes — Tantalids / Pelopid curse · Apollodorean / tragic (Myrtilus as hinge of the house-curse)
• Copreus: Herald of Eurystheus
  Heroes — Heracles / labor administration · Homeric / Apollodorean — Copreus as intermediary after Eurystheus’s fright
• Pelops’s Ivory Shoulder
  Heroes — Pelopid origins / restoration after Tantalus’s feast · Apollodorean / Pindaric background — Demeter’s bite; ivory replacement
• Capture of Helenus and the Prophecies of Troy’s Fall
  Trojan — Little Iliad / late-war oracles · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Helenus seized; conditions of capture named)
• Bones of Pelops Brought to Troy
  Trojan — Little Iliad / fall requirements · Apollodorean / cyclic handbook (Pelops’s bones among the conditions of capture)
• Olympia’s Older Foundations: Idaean Dactyls and Pelops (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Eleian / Olympia cult aetiology · Pausanian — pre-Heraclean foundations of the Olympic games

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Athena’s shrine in Troy
• Atreus’s flocks
• Cauldron of restoration
• Cave of the lion
• Cleonae
• Cretan Ida
• Elis
• Gods’ banquet
• Greek camp
• Greek camp at Troy
• Hades
• Isthmus of Corinth
• Lycia
• Lydia
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Myrtoan Sea
• Olympus
• Pelopion
• Peloponnesus
• Place of exile
• Pytho
• Scyros
• Thebes
• Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• Underworld
• War