Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Achelous and Deianeira: Contest for the Bride
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (river-god suitor; shape-shifting combat; broken horn; marriage to Deianeira)
• Calydonian Boar Hunt: Setup — Oeneus and Artemis’s Wrath
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean (neglected first-fruits; Artemis sends the huge boar)
• Meleager and the Calydonian Hunt (Atalanta’s Role)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean (pan-Hellenic muster; Atalanta first wound; Meleager awards the hide; quarrel with uncles)
• Death of Meleager: The Brand of the Fates (Althaea)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean / Bacchylidean (Moirae’s brand; Althaea burns it after the uncles’ deaths)
• Meleager in Homer: Phoenix’s Digression (*Iliad* 9)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Homeric — Phoenix to Achilles (anger, withdrawal, city’s peril; no Fate-brand)
• Atalanta: Birth, Exposure, and the Bear
  Heroes — Atalanta · Apollodorean Arcadian (Iasus; exposure; bear; hunters; vow of virginity)
• Conflict of Eteocles and Polynices; Exile of Polynices
  Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (*Phoenissae*, *OC*, *Seven* backstory)

Characters in shared stories

• Achilles
• Adrastus
• Althaea
• Ancaeus
• Argeia
• Artemis
• Atalanta
• Calydonian boar
• Cleopatra
• Clymene
• Creon
• Curetes
• Deianeira
• Deipyle
• Dionysus
• Erinyes
• Eteocles
• Heracles
• Hunters
• Iasus
• Lycurgus
• Meleager
• Naiads
• Oedipus
• Oeneus
• People of Calydon
• Phoenix
• Polynices
• Porthaon
• Rhoecus and Hylaeus
• River-gods
• Schoeneus
• She-bear
• Sons of Thestius
• Teiresias
• The Fates
• Theseus, Jason, Peleus, Telamon, Dioscuri, Idas, Lynceus, Admetus
• Tydeus