Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Cleobis and Biton (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Argive piety legend (Herodotean) · Herodotean classical legend (Solon’s exemplum of a happy life)
• Croesus and Solon: Who Is the Happiest Man? (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lydian / Herodotus legends · Herodotean — Solon’s visit and Croesus’s later recognition
• Epimenides Purifies Athens
  Local and lesser — Cretan holy man / Attic purification aetiology · Classical Greek notices — Epimenides summoned after Cylonian pollution
• Damia and Auxesia: Aeginetan Cult and Athenian Hostages (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Epidaurian–Aeginetan–Attic cult logos · Herodotean — olive-wood statues; Aeginetan theft; Athenian disaster
• Croesus on the Pyre Saved by Apollo (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lydian logos / Delphic salvation · Herodotean — Cyrus’s pyre; Croesus’s recognition of Solon; rain from a clear sky

Places appearing with them

• Clear sky over the pyre
• Epidaurus
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Oenone
• Pyre before Cyrus
• Pytho
• Sardis
• Troezen

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Hospitality
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• War