Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (13)

• Fifth Labor: The Augean Stables
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (cleaning by river diversion; wage-quarrel with Augeas; Phyleus as witness; Eurystheus again refuses to count the labor)
• Pelops and Oenomaus: The Chariot Race for Hippodamia
  Heroes — Tantalids / Pelops (Trojan genealogy gateway) · Apollodorean (Myrtilus’s sabotage; winged horses from Poseidon; curse on the Pelopids)
• Laius, Chrysippus, and the Oracle against a Son
  Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (Pelops curse; Delphic warning; Labdacid doom)
• Nycteus and Lycus: Theban Usurpation Setup
  Heroes — Theban political prelude (pre-Amphionid) · Apollodorean / Pausanian genealogical politics
• Labdacus and Laius: Lineage Bridge to the Labdacids
  Heroes — Theban / Labdacid genealogy · Apollodorean / Pausanian (thin reigns; exile of Laius; restoration after Amphionids)
• Myrtilus: Betrayal, Murder, and the Curse on the Pelopids
  Heroes — Tantalids / Pelopid curse · Apollodorean / tragic (Myrtilus as hinge of the house-curse)
• Heracles’ War on Augeas and the Molionidae
  Heroes — Heracles (post-labor Elian war) · Apollodorean (+ Pindaric Olympic aftermath glance)
• Heracles Founds the Olympic Games (Pindar)
  Heroes — Heracles / Olympia foundation · Pindaric (*Olympian* 10) / Apollodorean enrichment
• Copreus: Herald of Eurystheus
  Heroes — Heracles / labor administration · Homeric / Apollodorean — Copreus as intermediary after Eurystheus’s fright
• Oxylus Guides the Heraclidae into Elis
  Heroes — Return of the Heraclidae / Eleian foundation · Pausanian / Apollodorean — one-eyed Oxylus as guide; bargain for Elis
• Bones of Pelops Brought to Troy
  Trojan — Little Iliad / fall requirements · Apollodorean / cyclic handbook (Pelops’s bones among the conditions of capture)
• Olympia’s Older Foundations: Idaean Dactyls and Pelops (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Eleian / Olympia cult aetiology · Pausanian — pre-Heraclean foundations of the Olympic games
• Cronus’s Hill at Olympia and the Local Zeus-Birth (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Eleian / Olympia sacred topography · Pausanian — Cronius hill; local claim that Rhea bore Zeus at Olympia

Characters in shared stories

• Ajax
• Alpheus and Peneus
• Amphitrite
• Antiope
• Arcadian allies
• Artemis
• Atreus and Thyestes
• Augeas
• Cadmus
• Chrysippus
• Chthonius
• Copreus
• Cresphontes
• Cronus
• Dirce
• Eleian king
• Epopeus
• Eurytus and Cteatus
• Haemon
• Harmonia
• Helenus
• Helios
• Heracles
• Hippodamia
• Idaean Dactyls
• Iphicles
• Jocasta
• Labdacus
• Laius
• Lycus
• Lycus, Amphion, Zethus
• Menoeceus
• Molione
• Mother of the Gods
• Myrtilus
• Nycteus
• Odysseus
• Oenomaus
• Oxylus
• Pelops