Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Fourth Labor: The Erymanthian Boar (and Pholus among the Centaurs)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (live capture of the boar; Pholus’s hospitality; centaur battle; Chiron’s incurable wound)
• Euripides *Cyclops* (Satyr Play): Odysseus and Polyphemus
  Trojan — Odyssey side-tradition / satyr drama · Attic satyr play — Euripides *Cyclops* (vs. Homeric *Odyssey* 9)
• Midas: The Golden Touch and the Ass’s Ears
  Local and lesser — Phrygian · Roman handbook / Ovidian narrative of Greek Phrygian legends (labeled); Herodotus on historical Midas noted
• Silenus Captured by Midas (Phrygian)
  Local and lesser — Phrygian / Dionysiac · Classical Greek notices + handbook; Ovid/Hyginus labeled for continuous narrative link to the golden touch

Places appearing with them

• Court of Midas
• Deep snow of Erymanthus
• Gardens of Midas
• Grove
• Malea
• Mount Erymanthus
• Mount Etna
• Mount Pelion
• Mycenae
• Pholoë
• Psophis
• River Pactolus
• Shore
• Spring of Midas
• The deep
• Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Hospitality
• Revenge
• War