Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Ino–Leucothea and Melicertes–Palaemon
  Olympian gods — Dionysiac family / sea-cult · Apollodorean / Homeric (Ino as Leucothea in *Odyssey*); tragic Athamas madness
• Zeus Abducts Aegina
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s loves / Aeginetan foundation · Apollodorean / Pindaric — eagle or pursuit; Asopus’s search
• Nekyia: Odysseus in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 11 (+ Apollodorean summary)
• Bones of Pelops Brought to Troy
  Trojan — Little Iliad / fall requirements · Apollodorean / cyclic handbook (Pelops’s bones among the conditions of capture)
• Sisyphus: Cheating Death and the Rolling Stone
  Local and lesser — Corinthian / underworld punishment · Homeric punishment + Apollodorean / Pherecydian crimes (Thanatos bound; Persephone tricked)
• The Pleiades: Daughters of Atlas (and Orion’s Pursuit)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook (Eratosthenes / Hyginus)
• Niobe’s Weeping Rock on Sipylus (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Lydian / Anatolian aetiology · Pausanian local — rock on Mount Sipylus still weeping
• Glaucus of Potniae and the Man-Eating Mares
  Local and lesser — Boeotian / Corinthian Glaucus / tragic horse-horror · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Virgilian notice — mares of Potniae devour their master

Places appearing with them

• Acrocorinth
• Assembly
• Cliff Moluris
• Corinth
• Edge of Ocean
• Eleusis
• Elis
• Ethiopia
• Gates of Hades
• Greek camp at Troy
• Inland place of the winnowing-fan
• Iolcus
• Isthmus of Corinth
• Ithaca
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Ocean’s edge
• Oenone
• Phaeacian waters
• Pytho
• Rock tomb
• Sardis
• The deep
• Thrinacia
• Troy
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• Underworld
• War