Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Aeacus: Judges of the Dead
  Olympian gods / underworld order — judicial afterlife · Homeric / Platonic / Apollodorean — three mortal kings as underworld judges
• Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
• Europa’s Abduction: Zeus and the Bull
  Heroes — Europa / Cretan kings (preface to Cadmus) · Apollodorean / Moschus (Zeus as bull; Crete; Minos, Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon)
• Europa’s Sons in Crete: Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon
  Heroes — Cretan royal foundations / Europa cycle aftermath · Apollodorean / Homeric — three sons of Zeus and Europa; Cretan kingship; Sarpedon’s dual identity
• Rhadamanthys and Alcmene in Boeotia
  Heroes — after Heracles / Cretan lawgiver in Boeotia · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Rhadamanthys weds Alcmene; settles at Ocaleae or Haliartus
• The Three Judges of the Dead (Minos, Rhadamanthys, Aeacus)
  Local and lesser — underworld eschatology · Platonic / Apollodorean / Homeric (Minos) overview
• Isles of the Blessed and Elysian Plain
  Local and lesser — eschatology / afterlife geography · Hesiodic *Works and Days* + Pindaric / Homeric Elysium notices

Places appearing with them

• Elysian plain
• Elysium
• Gates of Hades
• Hades
• Islands of the Blessed
• Lycia
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Mycenae / Argolid
• Ocean’s streams
• Oenone
• Ortygia
• Phoenicia
• Tartarus
• Thebes

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War