Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (20)

• Phaethon and the Sun Chariot
  Olympian gods / Helios · Euripidean fragments + Roman transmission (Ovid) of the sun-chariot fall
• Athena and Pallas: Childhood Friend and the Aegis
  Olympian gods / Athena · Apollodorean / Pausanian (Libyan or Tritonian childhood; accidental killing; aegis from skin)
• Apollo and Cyrene: The Huntress and the Birth of Aristaeus (Pindar)
  Olympian gods — Apollo / Libyan–Thessalian foundation · Pindaric — Apollo’s love for Cyrene; Aristaeus born; Libya allotted
• Andromeda and the Sea-Monster (Ethiopia)
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean Ethiopian (Cepheus’s Aethiopia; Ammon’s oracle; Phineus petrified)
• Andromeda at Joppa: Local Palestinian Localization
  Heroes — Perseus · Local Joppa / Iope (classical travel and geographic notices vs. Apollodorean Ethiopia)
• 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)
• Circe’s Purification; Libya and Triton’s Gift (Return Voyage)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian return (Circe cleanses kin-blood; later Libyan shoals and Triton)
• Heracles and Antaeus
  Heroes — Heracles / side labor (Libya) · Apollodorean / Pindaric — earth-giant wrestler slain by lifting
• Euphemus and the Clod of Libya
  Heroes — Argonautica / Theran–Cyrenean colonial charter · Apollonian / Pindaric — Triton gives Euphemus a clod; destiny of Thera and Cyrene
• Zeus’s Promise to Thetis and the False Dream
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 1–2 (divine plot; Agamemnon’s dream; army tested)
• Memnon Son of Dawn: Achilles Kills Memnon
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
• Belus, Aegyptus, and Danaus: The Setup
  Local and lesser — Argive / Io’s descendants · Apollodorean genealogical setup (before the Danaid murders)
• Antaeus the Wrestler: Heracles in Libya
  Local and lesser — Heraclean / Libyan · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Earth-son; lift and crush)
• Empusa and the Lamiae
  Local and lesser — daimonic / Hecate’s train; folk-bogey in classical comedy and philosophy · Aristophanic / Philostratean / Diodoran (Empusa; Lamia as child-devouring bogey; Hecate connection)
• Aristaeus, the Bees, and Eurydice (Vergil-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — pastoral / bee aetiology; Orphic hinge · Roman primary narrative (Vergil, *Georgics* 4) of a Greek hero (Aristaeus); Greek notices of Aristaeus as pastoral culture-hero noted
• The Hyades
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs / Dionysiac nurses · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook
• Trophonius: Oracle of Lebadeia
  Local and lesser — Boeotian oracle / hero-cult · Pausanian — descent into the chasm of Trophonius
• Cassiopeia, Cepheus, and Andromeda (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Perseus cycle · Catasterismic handbook — royal Ethiopian family placed in the stars
• Battus and the Foundation of Cyrene (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — colonial foundation / Theran–Libyan · Herodotean — Delphic oracle; Theran colonists; Battus I founds Cyrene
• Glaucus of Potniae and the Man-Eating Mares
  Local and lesser — Boeotian / Corinthian Glaucus / tragic horse-horror · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Virgilian notice — mares of Potniae devour their master

Characters in shared stories

• Aegyptus
• Agamedes
• Agenor
• Ajax
• Ammon
• Amphidamas
• Amphitrite
• Anchinoë
• Andromeda
• Antaeus
• Aphrodite
• Arcesilaus I
• Ares
• Argonauts
• Aristaeus
• Artemis
• Athena
• Battus
• Battus I
• Belus
• Busiris
• Cassiepea
• Cepheus
• Children
• Chiron
• Circe
• Clymene
• Consultants
• Croesus
• Cycnus
• Cyrene
• Danaus
• Delphic Apollo
• Dionysus
• Dionysus and Xanthias
• Doris
• Dream
• Emathion
• Empusa
• Eos