Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (20)

• Oedipus at Colonus: Arrival, Death, and Heroic Passing
  Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Oedipus at Colonus* (+ Apollodorean notice)
• Conflict of Eteocles and Polynices; Exile of Polynices
  Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (*Phoenissae*, *OC*, *Seven* backstory)
• The Seven Against Thebes: March and Battle
  Theban · Aeschylean / Apollodorean (seven champions; seven gates)
• Mutual Killing of Eteocles and Polynices
  Theban · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean (fraternal duel)
• Antigone, the Burial of Polynices, and Creon’s Edict
  Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (+ Apollodorean aftermath)
• Amphiaraus Swallowed by the Earth
  Theban — Seven Against Thebes sequel (personal fate of the seer) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (reluctant march; chasm; hero-oracle)
• Adrastus of Argos: Kingship, Arion, and Survival
  Heroes — Theban / Argive (Seven Against Thebes) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / tragic
• Creon of Thebes: Tyranny after the Brothers
  Heroes — Theban / Creonid rule · Sophoclean / Euripidean / Apollodorean (post-Seven kingship)
• Menoeceus: Voluntary Sacrifice to Save Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Euripidean (*Phoenician Women*) / Apollodorean notice
• Hippomedon: Death at Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Polynices and Argia (Argeia): Marriage at Argos
  Heroes — Theban / Argive alliance · Apollodorean / tragic / cyclic (Adrastus’s daughters; lion and boar)
• Argia Helps Bury Polynices (Variant)
  Heroes — Theban / burial aftermath · Handbook / post-Sophoclean variant (Argia with Antigone)
• Thersander and the Epigoni Sack of Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Epigoni · Apollodorean / cyclic / Pausanian — Thersander as Polynices’ heir installed
• Eriphyle Bribed: Amphiaraus Forced against Thebes
  Heroes — Seven Against Thebes / Argive muster · Apollodorean / cyclic — necklace of Harmonia as bribe
• Antigone Entombed Alive (Sophocles)
  Heroes — Theban / Antigone · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (cave tomb and suicide)
• Wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia: The Necklace and the Robe
  Heroes — Theban foundation / Cadmus · Apollodorean / Pausanian — divine wedding gifts; cursed heirlooms
• Alcmaeon at Psophis: Phegeus and the Necklace
  Heroes — Epigoni aftermath / Alcmaeon cycle / Arcadian Psophis · Apollodorean — Phegeus shelters Alcmaeon; necklace of Harmonia; murder and revenge
• Acarnan and Amphoterus: The Naming of Acarnania
  Heroes — Alcmaeon aftermath / Acarnanian eponym · Apollodorean / Thucydidean digression — sons of Alcmaeon and Callirhoe avenge and name the land
• Manto, Daughter of Tiresias
  Local and lesser — Theban / prophetic lineage; colonial aetiology · Apollodorean / tragic / Pausanian
• Amphilochus: Founder Myths (Brief)
  Local and lesser — Epigoni aftermath / colonial founders · Apollodorean / Strabonian / Pausanian

Places appearing with them

• Achelous delta
• Achelous mouth
• Achelous river
• Amphiaraus’s chasm
• Amphilochian Argos
• Argive camp
• Argos
• Assembly
• Calydon
• Chasm near Thebes
• Cilicia
• Field of the Seven
• His gate
• House of Cadmus
• Ionia
• Ismenus
• Mantua
• Megara
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Olympia
• Oropus
• Pausanias’s tomb-spot
• Pytho
• Rhamnus
• Rock tomb
• Rock-chamber
• Samothrace
• Theban battlefield
• Thebes
• Troy
• Walls

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• War