Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• The Proetides: Madness and Melampus’s Cure
  Olympian gods / Argive — Hera or Dionysus; Melampus cross-link · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* (Proetides; Melampus’s bargain for Argos)
• Acrisius, Danaë, and the Bronze Chamber: Conception of Perseus
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (Argive oracle; Zeus as golden rain)
• Return to Argos and Larissa: Death of Acrisius by the Discus
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean (+ Pausanian Argive enrichment; exchange of kingdoms)
• Bellerophon: Anteia’s False Accusation, Proetus, Iobates, and the Chimera
  Heroes — Bellerophon · Homeric / Apollodorean (Potiphar’s-wife pattern; sealed tokens; Chimera slain)
• Stheneboea’s Suicide after Bellerophon’s Rejection (Euripides)
  Heroes — Bellerophon aftermath / tragic heroine · Euripidean (lost *Stheneboea*; reconstructed from fragments and hypothesis)
• Perseus, Megapenthes, and the Founding of Mycenae
  Heroes — Perseus aftermath / Argive–Mycenaean kingship · Apollodorean / Pausanian — kingdom exchange with Megapenthes; Perseus founds Mycenae
• Melampus the Seer
  Local and lesser — Argive / Amythaonid seers · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* tradition (serpents; cattle of Phylacus; Proetides)

Places appearing with them

• Altar of Zeus Herkeios
• Argos
• Corinth
• Countryside of the Argolid
• Hera’s sanctuary
• Larissa
• Lycia
• Messenia
• Midea
• Mount Pelion
• Mycenae
• Pelasgian land
• Pytho
• River Peneus
• Rock tomb
• Sicyon
• The deep

Themes

• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• War