Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• Birth of Dionysus: Semele, the Thunderbolt, and Zeus’s Thigh
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean / tragic (common classical Semele–thigh birth; Euripidean background)
• Artemis and Actaeon
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean “general opinion” (bathing / stag metamorphosis), with Callimachus as earliest surviving poetic parallel; Acusilaus–Stesichorus Semele-rival strand noted
• Dionysus and the Tyrrhenian Pirates
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn VII (to Dionysus)
• Ino–Leucothea and Melicertes–Palaemon
  Olympian gods — Dionysiac family / sea-cult · Apollodorean / Homeric (Ino as Leucothea in *Odyssey*); tragic Athamas madness
• Dionysus Retrieves Semele from Hades
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / apotheosis of Semele · Apollodorean / Pausanian — descent and renaming as Thyone
• Pentheus and Dionysus (*Bacchae*): Theban Cult Myth
  Theban · Attic tragic — Euripides *Bacchae* (+ Apollodorean summary)

Places appearing with them

• Asia / Lydia
• Banks of the river Trito
• Cave of Chiron
• Cliff Moluris
• Hades
• Heaven
• Isthmus of Corinth
• Lerna
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Helicon
• Nysa
• Olympus
• Palace of Pentheus
• Phaeacian waters
• Shore where Dionysus is seized
• Spring and rock near Plataea
• The deep
• The pirate ship at sea
• Thebes
• Troezen
• Troy
• Underworld
• Zeus’s thigh

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Succession
• Underworld
• War