Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Conflict of Eteocles and Polynices; Exile of Polynices
  Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (*Phoenissae*, *OC*, *Seven* backstory)
• The Seven Against Thebes: March and Battle
  Theban · Aeschylean / Apollodorean (seven champions; seven gates)
• Adrastus of Argos: Kingship, Arion, and Survival
  Heroes — Theban / Argive (Seven Against Thebes) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / tragic
• Tydeus and Melanippus: Brains, Athena, and Denied Immortality
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Apollodorean / cyclic / scholiastic

Places appearing with them

• Amphiaraus’s chasm
• Argos
• Calydon
• Megara
• Mount Helicon
• Olympia
• Thebes

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• War