Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Pygmalion
  Local and lesser — Cypriot · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek notices of Pygmalion as Cypriot king/sculptor vary
• Cinyras and Myrrha
  Local and lesser — Cypriot kingship / Adonis prelude · Apollodorean / Pindaric notices of Cinyras; Myrrha crime as household disaster

Places appearing with them

• Aphrodite’s festival altar
• Cyprus
• Salamis
• Ships

Themes

• Birth
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• War