Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (14)

• Poseidon and Tyro: The Enipeus Deception; Birth of Pelias and Neleus
  Olympian gods / Aeolid heroic prelude · Homeric (*Odyssey* 11) / Apollodorean
• Prophecy of Pelias and Jason’s Return with One Sandal
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean / Pindaric (oracle of the one-sandaled man; Anaurus crossing; demand for the Golden Fleece)
• Building of the Argo and Gathering of the Argonauts
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (Athena’s design; Argus the builder; catalogue of heroes)
• Departure and the Women of Lemnos (Hypsipyle)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Lemnian women; Hypsipyle; sojourn and departure)
• Return to Iolcus and the Death of Pelias (Medea’s Rejuvenation Trick)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (fleece returned; daughters of Pelias deceived; Pelias boiled; exile)
• Corinth: Jason, Medea, Glauce, and the Deaths of the Children (Euripides)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (aftermath) · Attic tragic — Euripides *Medea* (divorce for Glauce; poisoned gifts; filicide; Aegeus; escape to Athens)
• Admetus’s Wedding: Artemis Neglected and the Serpents in the Chamber
  Heroes — Thessalian / Admetus–Alcestis prelude · Apollodorean (wedding omission; Artemis’s wrath; Apollo’s remedy)
• Peleus, Acastus, and Astydameia
  Heroes — Aeacid / Thessalian (Peleus before Thetis) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (false accusation; abandonment among centaurs)
• Jason’s Education by Chiron
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (youth prelude) · Pindaric / Apollodorean brief (Pelion fosterage before the one sandal)
• Phrixus and Helle: The Golden Ram to Colchis
  Heroes — Aeolid / Golden Fleece origin (pre-Argonautica) · Apollodorean / Apollonian background (ram flight; Hellespont; Aeetes)
• Aeson and Pelias: Usurpation of Iolcus
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus prelude) · Apollodorean / Pindaric Aeolid (Cretheus; Tyro; Pelias seizes the throne)
• Medea Rejuvenates Aeson (Ovid-Labeled)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus return) · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Medea’s true rejuvenation of Aeson — distinct from Pelias’s false boiling (074)
• Aries: The Golden Ram of Phrixus (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Argonautic prelude · Catasterismic handbook — Nephele’s ram as Aries
• 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

• Acastus
• Admetus
• Aeetes
• Aegeus
• Aeson
• Alcestis
• Alcimede
• Amphitrite
• Aphrodite
• Ares
• Argonauts
• Argus
• Artemis
• Astydameia
• Atalanta
• Castor and Polydeuces
• Chalciope
• Children of Jason and Medea
• Chiron
• Chorus of Corinthian women
• Creon
• Creon of Corinth
• Cretheus
• Dragon of Ares’ grove
• Enipeus
• Eros
• Euneus
• Glauce
• Glaucus
• Golden ram
• Hebe
• Hecate
• Helios
• Helle
• Heracles
• Hypsipyle
• Idmon
• Jason
• Lemnian women
• Mares of Potniae