Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
• Madness of Heracles: Murder of the Children (Apollodorean, before the Labors)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Hera-sent madness in Thebes *before* service to Eurystheus; Megara’s sons killed; purification then Delphi)
• Oracle and the Beginning of Service to Eurystheus
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Delphic command; twelve years at Tiryns; labors as path to immortality)
• Heracles and the Fifty Daughters of Thespius
  Heroes — Heracles / youth; Thespian progeny · Apollodorean / Pausanian — fifty nights; Thespiades as mothers of Heracles’ sons

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Mycenae / Argolid
• Ocean’s streams
• Pytho
• Sardinia
• Thebes

Themes

• Birth
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Theft
• War