Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (27)

• Apollo and Hyacinthus
  Olympian gods / Spartan-Amyclaean · Apollodorean / Pausanian Amyclaean (discus; flower; cult)
• Dioscuri: Castor’s Death and Shared Immortality
  Olympian gods / Spartan Dioscuri · Homeric / Pindaric / Apollodorean (cattle raid; Idas and Lynceus; alternate days)
• Zeus and Nemesis: The Egg of Helen (*Cypria*)
  Olympian gods / Trojan prelude — parentage of Helen · Cyclic — *Cypria* (Nemesis pursued; egg; Leda as foster-mother)
• Twelfth Labor: Cerberus and the Descent to Hades (Theseus and Pirithous)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Eleusinian initiation; Taenarum descent; Medusa phantom; Theseus raised, Pirithous left; Cerberus mastered without weapons; ascent via Troezen)
• Theseus and Pirithous: Abduction of Helen
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus and Pirithous seize youthful Helen; she is recovered by the Dioscuri)
• Theseus and Pirithous in Hades: The Attempt on Persephone
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (descent to seize Persephone; binding on the Chair of Forgetfulness; Heracles frees Theseus)
• Orestes’ Wanderings and Alternate Purifications (beyond *Eumenides*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Euripidean notices (multi-site cleansing)
• Chrysothemis (Sophocles’ *Electra*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia (Electra’s sister) · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (foil sister)
• Clytemnestra’s Dream (Aeschylus and Sophocles)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — dream as omen before the matricide (Aeschylean and Sophoclean variants compared)
• Heracles and Hippocoön: The Spartan Vengeance War
  Heroes — Heracles / side campaigns after the labors · Apollodorean (Hippocoön; Oeonus; Tyndareus restored)
• Abduction of the Leucippides
  Heroes / Spartan — Dioscuri / Apharetidae rivalry · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Cypria — Phoebe and Hilaeira carried off
• Dioscuri Rescue Helen from Aphidna
  Heroes — Dioscuri / Theseus cycle aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Castor and Polydeuces recover Helen; Aethra captured
• Judgment of Paris: Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
• Abduction (Elopement) of Helen: Paris at Sparta
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Aphrodite’s gift; departure with treasure; Homeric regret vs. willing-flight noted)
• Oath of Tyndareus and the Gathering of the Greeks
  Trojan · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* strand (+ *Cypria* muster)
• Helen Recovered by Menelaus
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades*; Homeric *Odyssey* 4)
• Menelaus and Helen: Wandering before Sparta (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 4 (+ *Nostoi* / Apollodorean Egypt)
• Nestor’s Safe Return to Pylos
  Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 3 / Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus)
• Telemachy: Athena at Ithaca; Telemachus Seeks News (*Odyssey* 1–4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 1–4 (Telemachy)
• Helen’s Eidolon: The Phantom at Troy (Stesichorus / Euripides)
  Trojan — variant of Helen’s role in the war · Stesichorean palinode + Euripides *Helen* (eidolon at Troy; real Helen in Egypt)
• Andromache (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Neoptolemus · Attic tragic — Euripides *Andromache*
• Hermione and Orestes: Marriage after Neoptolemus
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath; Spartan–Mycenaean succession · Euripidean (*Andromache*; *Orestes*) / Apollodorean / Odyssean glance
• Helen and Paris: First Night under Aphrodite
  Trojan — abduction / Aphrodite’s gift · Homeric (*Iliad* 3 bed scene as paradigm) + Cypria/Apollodorean elopement context
• Thamyris Challenges the Muses
  Local and lesser — Thracian / poetic hybris · Homeric (*Iliad* 2) / Apollodorean / Pausanian
• Arion of Methymna and the Dolphin (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lesbian / Corinthian musical legend · Herodotean classical legend (Arion of Methymna)
• Death of Machaon (Eurypylus)
  Local and lesser — Asclepiads / Trojan endgame · Cyclic / Posthomeric / Pausanian
• Aristomenes of Messenia (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Messenian resistance hero · Pausanian Messenian — Aristomenes’ exploits in the Messenian Wars

Characters in shared stories

• Academus
• Aegisthus
• Aeneas
• Aethra
• Agamemnon
• Ajax
• Amphitrite
• Amyclas
• Andromache
• Antinous
• Aphareus
• Ares
• Argiope
• Arion of Methymna
• Aristomenes
• Artemis
• Ascalaphus
• Astyanax
• Brontes
• Cassandra
• Castor
• Castor and Polydeuces
• Catreus
• Centaurs
• Cerberus
• Ceuthonymus
• Chorus
• Chrysothemis
• Corinthian sailors
• Demeter
• Diomedes
• Dolphin
• Eidothea
• Electra
• Eros
• Eumolpus
• Eurycleia
• Eurypylus
• Goat/fox helper
• Gorgons