Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (14)

• Typhon Against Zeus (Apollodorus)
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Apollodorean (substantially different combat narrative from Hesiodic Typhoeus)
• 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)
• Epaphus: Son of Io, King in Egypt
  Heroes — Io line / Argive–Egyptian bridge · Apollodorean / Aeschylean destiny — Epaphus born of Zeus’s touch; Egyptian kingship
• Gelanor Yields Argos to Danaus
  Heroes / Argive — Danaid arrival and transfer of kingship · Apollodorean / Pausanian — last pre-Danaid king; omen of the wolf
• Menelaus and Helen: Wandering before Sparta (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 4 (+ *Nostoi* / Apollodorean Egypt)
• 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)
• Telemachus at Sparta: Menelaus and Helen (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — Spartan visit isolated from the Telemachy overview
• Menelaus Wrestles Proteus in Egypt (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / nostoi / Telemachy · Homeric — Proteus of Pharos; Egyptian detention
• Helen Drugs the Wine with Nepenthe (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / Sparta · Homeric — Helen’s Egyptian drug that ends grief in the mixing-bowl
• Eidothea Aids Menelaus (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Menelaus’s nostos / Egyptian sojourn · Homeric — nymph daughter of Proteus teaches the seal-skin ambush
• Capricorn: Aegipan / Pan in the Typhonomachy (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Typhoeus aftermath · Catasterismic handbook — goat-fish Aegipan (Pan) as Capricorn
• Pisces: Aphrodite and Eros as Fishes (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Aphrodite · Catasterismic handbook — Aphrodite and Eros (or Syrian fish) as Pisces
• Rhampsinitus and the Clever Thief (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Egyptian logos in Greek ethnography · Herodotean Egyptian — treasury theft; decapitation; princess-trap; marriage

Characters in shared stories

• Aegipan
• Ajax
• Amphidamas
• Amphitrite
• Antaeus
• Apis
• Ares
• Argives
• Argus Panoptes
• Artemis
• Builder of the treasury
• Busiris
• Chiron
• Cycnus
• Danaids
• Danaus
• Delphyne
• Derceto
• Doris
• Eidothea
• Electra
• Emathion
• Epaphus
• Epimetheus
• Eros
• Gadfly
• Gaia
• Gelanor
• Greeks and Trojans
• Guards
• Helios
• Heracles
• Hermes
• Hesperides
• Inachus
• Io
• Ladon
• Libya
• Lindian cowherd
• Lyssa