Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (6)

• Zeus and Io
  Olympian gods / Argive · Apollodorean Argive (cow; Argus; gadfly; Egypt; Epaphus); Aeschylean tragic enrichment
• 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)
• Chiron: Wound, Relinquished Immortality, and Teacher of Heroes
  Heroes — Centaur sage / Heracles aftermath / heroic education · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Hydra-arrow wound; immortality ceded; school of heroes)
• Heracles Frees Prometheus
  Heroes — Heracles / Titan aftermath · Apollodorean (eagle slain; bonds loosed; Chiron’s immortality traded) — liberation focus
• Scyles and Dionysus at Olbia
  Local and lesser — Scythian logos / Dionysiac transgression · Herodotean — bilingual king; Greek rites at Borysthenes; Scythian execution
• Anacharsis the Scythian
  Local and lesser — Scythian sage / cult transgression / Greek wisdom legend · Herodotean — travels; Mother of the Gods at Cyzicus; death by arrow

Characters in shared stories

• Amphidamas
• Amphitrite
• Anacharsis
• Antaeus
• Ares
• Argus Panoptes
• Ariapithes
• Artemis
• Asclepius, Jason, Achilles, Actaeon
• Busiris
• Chiron
• Cronus
• Cycnus
• Cyzicenes
• Dionysus Baccheios
• Doris
• Eagle of Zeus
• Elatus
• Emathion
• Epaphus
• Epimetheus
• Gadfly
• Gaia
• Greek mother from Istria
• Helios
• Heracles
• Hermes
• Hesperides
• Inachus
• Io
• Ladon
• Lindian cowherd
• Mother of the Gods
• Nymphs
• Oceanids
• Philyra
• Pholus
• Phrasius
• Saulius
• Scyles