Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Nereus, Atlas Holds the Sky)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (apples among Hyperboreans by Atlas; Nereus compelled for guidance; Atlas fetches fruit while Heracles bears the sky; craft-return of the burden; Ladon present as guardian but not slain in this plot)
• Memnon Son of Dawn: Achilles Kills Memnon
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
• Eos and Tithonus
  Local and lesser — Dawn / Trojan royal house · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (+ Homeric *Iliad* / *Odyssey* notices; Apollodorean genealogy)

Places appearing with them

• Arabia
• Assembly
• Caucasus
• Chamber with shining doors
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Illyria
• Islands of the Blessed
• Land of the Hyperboreans
• Mycenae
• Outer sea
• River Echedorus
• River Eridanus
• Thermydrae
• Troy
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• War