Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Phaethon and the Sun Chariot
  Olympian gods / Helios · Euripidean fragments + Roman transmission (Ovid) of the sun-chariot fall
• Eos Abducts Cephalus
  Local and lesser — Dawn’s mortal loves / Attic Cephalus cycle · Euripidean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices / Apollodorean allusion (+ Pausanian)
• The Heliades: Amber Tears
  Local and lesser — Helios / Phaethon aftermath / aetiology of amber · Ovid-labeled Roman fullest narrative + Greek tragic/fragmentary and handbook notices
• Cycnus of Liguria Mourns Phaethon (Swan; Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Phaethon aftermath / metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Ligurian Cycnus’s swan change — distinct from Poseidon’s Cycnus and from Ares’s Cycnus

Places appearing with them

• Banks of Eridanus
• Banks of the Eridanus
• Eridanus
• Ethiopia
• Islands of the Blessed
• Liguria
• Palace of Helios in the east
• Path of the sun
• Rhamnus
• Rivers and ponds
• The deep
• Troezen

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• War