Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• 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

Places appearing with them

• Mount Helicon
• Pyre before Cyrus
• Pytho
• Sardis
• Troezen

Themes

• Sacrifice
• Succession
• War