Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (6)

• Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryon (Helios’s Cup, Orthrus, Erytheia)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Erytheia/Gadira; triple-bodied Geryon; Orthrus and Eurytion; Helios’s golden cup; homeward cattle-drive with Eryx and Hera’s gadfly)
• Departure and the Women of Lemnos (Hypsipyle)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Lemnian women; Hypsipyle; sojourn and departure)
• Cyzicus and the Doliones: Friendly King Killed by Mistake
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (hospitality by night; mistaken battle; funeral games)
• Amycus and the Bebryces: Boxing Match of Polydeuces
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Amycus’s challenge; Polydeuces wins; Bebrycian rout)
• Phrixus and Helle: The Golden Ram to Colchis
  Heroes — Aeolid / Golden Fleece origin (pre-Argonautica) · Apollodorean / Apollonian background (ram flight; Hellespont; Aeetes)
• Aristeas of Proconnesus (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Herodotean wonder-tale / Hyperborean poetry · Herodotean — death in the fuller’s shop; reappearance; *Arimaspea*

Characters in shared stories

• Aeetes
• Aeneus
• Amphitrite
• Amycus
• Aphrodite
• Ares
• Argonauts
• Aristeas
• Artemis
• Bebryces
• Callirrhoe
• Castor
• Chalciope
• Chrysaor
• Cleite
• Cyzicus
• Doliones
• Dragon of Ares’ grove
• Eryx
• Euneus
• Eurytion
• Fuller of Proconnesus
• Gegeines
• Geryon
• Golden ram
• Hades
• Helios
• Helle
• Hephaestus
• Heracles
• Hyperboreans
• Hypsipyle
• Ialebion and Dercynus
• Idmon
• Jason
• Lemnian women
• Menoetes
• Metapontines
• Ocean
• Orthrus