Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (6)

• Bendis: Thracian Artemis in Athens
  Olympian gods / Thracian cult in Attica — Bendis · Classical Attic reception — Bendideia at Piraeus; Plato’s dramatic date
• Theseus’s Bones Brought from Scyros to Athens
  Heroes — Theseus / Attic hero-cult translation · Plutarchan / Pausanian — Cimon recovers the bones; Theseion
• Ajax Telamonian: Tomb and Cult
  Trojan — Ajax aftermath / hero cult · Homeric / cyclic / Pausanian / local Rhoetean
• The Aiora: Swing Festival and Expiation for Erigone
  Local and lesser — Attic ritual aetiology · Attic / Eratosthenic / lexicographic (Aiora founded after hanging-plague)
• Codrus: The Last King of Athens Sacrifices Himself
  Local and lesser — Attic kings / Pausanian–Lycurgan legend · Pausanian / Lycurgan Attic (Codrus; Dorian invasion oracle)
• Pan and Pheidippides before Marathon (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Attic cult aetiology / Herodotean logos · Herodotean — Pan appears to the runner; cult of Pan established under the Acropolis

Places appearing with them

• Enemy camp at the border
• Greek camp at Troy
• Hades
• Hecale
• Mount Parthenion
• Mycenae
• Oenone
• Olympia
• Piraeus
• Pytho
• Rhamnus
• Salamis
• Scyros
• Thrace
• Trees
• Troezen
• Troy

Themes

• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Underworld
• War