Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• 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)
• Arrival at Colchis and Aeetes’s Tasks
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (audience with Aeetes; fire-breathing bulls; dragon-teeth warriors)
• Nephele and Athamas: The Cloud-Wife and Ino’s Intrigue
  Heroes — Aeolid / Golden Fleece origin (pre-Argonautica) · Apollodorean / handbook (Nephele; Ino’s plot; famine and oracle)
• Phrixus and Helle: The Golden Ram to Colchis
  Heroes — Aeolid / Golden Fleece origin (pre-Argonautica) · Apollodorean / Apollonian background (ram flight; Hellespont; Aeetes)
• Aries: The Golden Ram of Phrixus (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Argonautic prelude · Catasterismic handbook — Nephele’s ram as Aries

Places appearing with them

• Altar of sacrifice
• Anaurus
• Boeotia / Orchomenus
• City
• Colchis
• Field (plain) of Ares
• Hellespont
• Iolcus
• Mount Pelion
• Path of the sun
• Phasis
• Pytho
• Tenedos
• Thebes

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• War