Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (12)

• Twelfth Labor: Cerberus and the Descent to Hades (Theseus and Pirithous)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Eleusinian initiation; Taenarum descent; Medusa phantom; Theseus raised, Pirithous left; Cerberus mastered without weapons; ascent via Troezen)
• The Ghost of Patroclus Appears to Achilles (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / funeral of Patroclus · Homeric — shade demands burial; shared bones; vanishes like smoke
• Elpenor Falls from Circe’s Roof (*Odyssey* 10–11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Aeaea / Nekyia prelude · Homeric — drunken fall; unburied shade; burial plea and fulfillment
• Tiresias’s Prophecy of the Inland Oar (*Odyssey* 11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nekyia / nostos beyond Ithaca · Homeric — Poseidon’s wrath; Helios’s cattle warning; oar mistaken for winnowing-fan; gentle death from the sea
• Catalogue of Heroines in the Nekyia (*Odyssey* 11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nekyia / heroic genealogy in Hades · Homeric — blood-drinking shades of famous women; Hesiodic-style catalogue embedded in nostos
• The Three Judges of the Dead (Minos, Rhadamanthys, Aeacus)
  Local and lesser — underworld eschatology · Platonic / Apollodorean / Homeric (Minos) overview
• Sisyphus: Cheating Death and the Rolling Stone
  Local and lesser — Corinthian / underworld punishment · Homeric punishment + Apollodorean / Pherecydian crimes (Thanatos bound; Persephone tricked)
• Salmoneus: Imitating Zeus
  Local and lesser — Thessalian / Elean / underworld sinners · Apollodorean / Vergilian echo labeled; Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices
• Tityos: Assault on Leto and the Vultures
  Local and lesser — underworld punishment / Letoids · Homeric (*Odyssey* 11) / Apollodorean (birth; assault; death by Apollo and Artemis)
• The Danaids’ Punishment: Leaky Jars in the Underworld
  Local and lesser — Argive / underworld punishment · Classical underworld tradition (lyric, tragic, and handbook) attached to the Danaid crime
• Daphnis (Theocritus)
  Local and lesser — Sicilian bucolic / herdsman hero · Theocritean (*Idyll* 1); Stesichorean and Sicilian precedent notices
• 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

Characters in shared stories

• Aeacus
• Aegina
• Aeolus
• Agamemnon / Achilles
• Ajax
• Alcinous
• Ares
• Aristaeus
• Artemis
• Ascalaphus
• Asopus
• Athena and Hermes
• Centaurs
• Cerberus
• Ceuthonymus
• Circe
• Cronus
• Cyrene
• Danaids
• Danaus
• Daphnis
• Demeter
• Elpenor
• Eros
• Eumolpus
• Europa
• Eurydice
• Gaia
• Goatherd
• Gorgons
• Hades
• Heracles
• Hyperion
• Hypermnestra
• Inland strangers
• Ker
• Lynceus
• Lyssa
• Meleager
• Menoetes