Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (14)

• Echo and Narcissus (Ovid Line)
  Olympian gods / local metamorphosis — Echo; Narcissus · Roman transmission (Ovid) — Echo cursed by Hera; composite with Narcissus (distinct from Pausanias’s Thespian Narcissus)
• 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)
• Plague at Thebes and the Discovery of the Truth (*Oedipus Tyrannus*)
  Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Oedipus Tyrannus* (+ Apollodorean summary)
• Conflict of Eteocles and Polynices; Exile of Polynices
  Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (*Phoenissae*, *OC*, *Seven* backstory)
• Antigone, the Burial of Polynices, and Creon’s Edict
  Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (+ Apollodorean aftermath)
• The Epigoni: The Next Generation’s War on Thebes
  Theban · Apollodorean / epic cycle (*Epigoni* tradition)
• Creon of Thebes: Tyranny after the Brothers
  Heroes — Theban / Creonid rule · Sophoclean / Euripidean / Apollodorean (post-Seven kingship)
• Menoeceus: Voluntary Sacrifice to Save Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Euripidean (*Phoenician Women*) / Apollodorean notice
• Haemon’s Suicide (Sophocles, Antigone)
  Heroes — Theban / Antigone aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone*
• Thersander and the Epigoni Sack of Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Epigoni · Apollodorean / cyclic / Pausanian — Thersander as Polynices’ heir installed
• Death of Aegialeus in the Epigoni War
  Heroes — Theban / Epigoni · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cyclic
• Circe on Aeaea (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 10.135–574 (+ Apollodorean)
• Nekyia: Odysseus in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 11 (+ Apollodorean summary)
• Telegony: Telegonus Kills Odysseus (Epic Cycle End)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle close / post-*Odyssey* · Epic Cycle — *Telegony* (Proclus summary; Eugammon of Cyrene attrib.)

Places appearing with them

• Argive camp
• Argos
• Assembly
• Boeotian woodland
• Calydon
• Chamber of the infants
• Circe’s land
• Clear pool
• Corinth
• Crossroads
• Edge of Ocean
• Illyrian
• Inland place of the winnowing-fan
• Ithaca
• Megara
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Helicon
• Mountain slopes
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Ocean’s edge
• Ocean’s streams
• Path from shore to hall
• Pausanias’s tomb-spot
• Pytho
• Rock tomb
• Taphos
• The deep
• Theban palace
• Thebes
• Thesprotia
• Thrinacia
• Troy
• Walls

Themes

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