Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (10)

• Ninth Labor: Hippolyte’s Belt (Hera’s Rumor and the Death of the Queen)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Admete’s desire; Hippolyte first willing; Hera as Amazon spreads rumor; Heracles kills Hippolyte and takes the belt of Ares)
• Menelaus and Helen: Wandering before Sparta (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 4 (+ *Nostoi* / Apollodorean Egypt)
• Helen’s Eidolon: The Phantom at Troy (Stesichorus / Euripides)
  Trojan — variant of Helen’s role in the war · Stesichorean palinode + Euripides *Helen* (eidolon at Troy; real Helen in Egypt)
• Telemachus at Sparta: Menelaus and Helen (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — Spartan visit isolated from the Telemachy overview
• Menelaus Wrestles Proteus in Egypt (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / nostoi / Telemachy · Homeric — Proteus of Pharos; Egyptian detention
• Helen in Egypt: Recognition and Escape (Euripides)
  Trojan — Euripidean *Helen* / post-Troy Egypt plot · Attic tragic — Menelaus finds the real Helen; eidolon vanishes; escape from Theoclymenus
• Eidothea Aids Menelaus (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Menelaus’s nostos / Egyptian sojourn · Homeric — nymph daughter of Proteus teaches the seal-skin ambush
• Aristaeus, the Bees, and Eurydice (Vergil-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — pastoral / bee aetiology; Orphic hinge · Roman primary narrative (Vergil, *Georgics* 4) of a Greek hero (Aristaeus); Greek notices of Aristaeus as pastoral culture-hero noted
• Isles of the Blessed and Elysian Plain
  Local and lesser — eschatology / afterlife geography · Hesiodic *Works and Days* + Pindaric / Homeric Elysium notices
• Helen in Egypt with Proteus (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Egyptian / Herodotean Trojan variant · Herodotean — Helen detained in Egypt; Troy fought without her

Places appearing with them

• Aenus
• Amyclae
• Assembly
• Canopic mouth
• Egypt
• Elysian plain
• Elysium
• Ethiopia
• Gates of Hades
• Heraclea
• Hives of Aristaeus
• Islands of the Blessed
• Memphis
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Ogygia
• Paros
• Phoenicia
• River Peneus
• Riverbank of Eurydice’s flight
• Sea of Egypt
• Sea off Egypt
• Shore
• Thasos
• Themiscyra
• Thermodon
• Torone
• Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• Underworld
• War