Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (13)

• Seafaring and the Pleiades (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic star-lore / seafaring · Hesiodic — Pleiades, Sirius, and the season for ships
• Macris Nurses Dionysus on Euboea
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / Euboean nymph nursing · Apollonian — Macris daughter of Aristaeus shelters and honeys the infant god
• After the Labors: Iphitus’s Murder and Sale to Omphale
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (labors complete; Eurytus and Iole; murder of Iphitus; Delphic sentence of servitude; Hermes sells Heracles to Omphale of Lydia)
• Iole at Trachis: Lichas’s Lie and the Truth (Sophocles)
  Heroes — Heracles · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Trachiniae* (captive train; Lichas’s false tale; messenger’s exposure; Deianeira recognizes Iole as rival)
• Trachis and the Poisoned Robe: Deianeira’s Gift and Heracles’ Agony
  Heroes — Heracles · Sophoclean / Apollodorean (robe anointed with Nessus’s blood; Lichas delivers it; Hydra venom burns; Lichas killed; Deianeira’s suicide)
• Tityus: Assault on Leto and Eternal Punishment
  Heroes / primordial giants — crime against Leto · Homeric / Apollodorean — Tityus in the underworld
• Lichas and the Poisoned Robe
  Heroes — Heracles / Trachiniae endgame · Sophoclean / Apollodorean — Lichas brings the gift; Heracles hurls him to death
• Departure Disasters Begin: Athena’s Wrath and Locrian Ajax
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* / *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades* prologue)
• Death of Palamedes at Troy
  Trojan — Cypria / early war · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ tragic and Dictyan elaborations labeled where late)
• Nauplius’s False Beacons: The Wreck at Caphereus (Nostoi)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Euboean disaster · Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* / Apollodorean (+ tragic notices)
• Nauplius’s Revenge: Justice Denied and the Corruption of the Achaean Wives
  Trojan — Nostoi prelude / aftermath of Palamedes · Apollodorean / tragic handbook (Nauplius at Troy; domestic revenge)
• Rhoeo and Anius: Delian Myths
  Local and lesser — Delian / Apolline local myth · Apollodorean / Diodoran / cyclic notices (Rhoeo; Anius; Oenotropae)
• Contest of Homer and Hesiod
  Local and lesser — biographical legend of the poets / Chalcidian games · Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi (imperial compilation of classical anecdotes) — King Amphidamas’s funeral games; Hesiod wins

Characters in shared stories

• Aegialia
• Aegisthus
• Agamemnon
• Ajax
• Amphidamas
• Amphitrite
• Anius
• Aristaeus
• Artemis
• Cassandra
• Chorus of Trachinian women
• Chrysothemis
• Cometes
• Deianeira
• Diomedes
• Dionysus
• Dorippe
• Eurytus
• Gaia
• Hades
• Heracles
• Hesiod
• Homer
• Hydra of Lerna
• Hyllus
• Iardanus
• Iole
• Iphidamas
• Iphitus
• Judges
• Lichas
• Lyssa
• Macris
• Megara
• Messenger
• Muses of Helicon
• Myrmidons
• Nauplius
• Nessus
• Odysseus