Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Birth of Heracles: Amphitryon, Alcmene, Zeus; Hera’s Delay; the Snakes
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Theban birth; Zeus’s prolonged night; Eurystheus preferred by Hera’s trick)
• The Epigoni: The Next Generation’s War on Thebes
  Theban · Apollodorean / epic cycle (*Epigoni* tradition)
• Diomedes after Thebes: Epigonus and Argive King
  Heroes — Theban / Epigoni / Argive · Apollodorean / Homeric — Epigonus who becomes Trojan-war Argive leader
• Electryon’s Death and Amphitryon’s Exile
  Heroes — Amphitryon / Heracles prelude / Mycenaean house · Apollodorean — accidental killing of Electryon; exile to Thebes; betrothal to Alcmene
• Diomedes’ Aristeia: Wounding of Aphrodite and Ares
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 5 (with close of 4 / opening of 6)
• Athena Tips Diomedes to Wound Ares (*Iliad* 5)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 5 · Homeric — Athena as charioteer and guide against Ares
• Cycnus of Liguria Mourns Phaethon (Swan; Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Phaethon aftermath / metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Ligurian Cycnus’s swan change — distinct from Poseidon’s Cycnus and from Ares’s Cycnus

Places appearing with them

• Achaean and Trojan lines
• Argos
• Assembly
• Banks of the Eridanus
• Cap of Hades
• Chamber of the infants
• Illyrian
• Liguria
• Midea
• Mycenae
• Olympus
• Pergamus
• Pytho
• Rivers and ponds
• Taphos
• Thebes
• Troy
• Underworld

Themes

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