Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Pyre on Mount Oeta: The Death of Heracles
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (Heracles carried to Oeta; pyre built; Philoctetes or Poeas lights it; bow bequeathed; mortal body consumed)
• Talos on Crete
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (bronze guardian; ankle vein; Medea’s defeat of Talos)
• Second Gathering; Philoctetes Abandoned on Lemnos
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Sophoclean wound-aetiology)

Places appearing with them

• Ankle of Talos
• Chryse
• Lycia
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Oeta
• Oenone
• Tenedos
• Trachis
• Troy

Themes

• Marriage
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• War