Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryon (Helios’s Cup, Orthrus, Erytheia)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Erytheia/Gadira; triple-bodied Geryon; Orthrus and Eurytion; Helios’s golden cup; homeward cattle-drive with Eryx and Hera’s gadfly)
• 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)
• Heracles Frees Prometheus
  Heroes — Heracles / Titan aftermath · Apollodorean (eagle slain; bonds loosed; Chiron’s immortality traded) — liberation focus

Places appearing with them

• Abderia
• Arabia
• Caucasus
• Egypt
• Erytheia
• Ethiopia
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Hellespont
• Illyria
• Ionian Sea
• Land of the Hyperboreans
• Libya and Europe
• Liguria
• Malea
• Mecone
• Mount Abas
• Mount Etna
• Mycenae
• Outer sea
• Pillars of Heracles
• Plain of Eryx
• Rhegium
• River Anthemus
• River Echedorus
• River Eridanus
• River Strymon
• Styx
• Tartessus
• Thermydrae
• Thrace
• Tyrrhenia

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War