Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Artemis and Actaeon
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean “general opinion” (bathing / stag metamorphosis), with Callimachus as earliest surviving poetic parallel; Acusilaus–Stesichorus Semele-rival strand noted
• Odysseus Meets Anticleia (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / family of Odysseus · Homeric — mother and son at the blood-trench
• Shade of Tiresias Advises Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / Theban seer in Hades · Homeric — Tiresias at the blood-trench
• Antigone Entombed Alive (Sophocles)
  Heroes — Theban / Antigone · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (cave tomb and suicide)

Places appearing with them

• Cave of Chiron
• Circe’s land
• Countryside
• Edge of Ocean
• Hades
• Inland place of men without sea-knowledge
• Ithaca
• Mount Cithaeron
• Rock-chamber
• Spring and rock near Plataea
• Thebes
• Thrinacia

Themes

• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War