Isthmus

Place · slug: isthmus

Also: Peloponnese border, Corinth

Aegeus’s Death: The Black Sails and Theseus’s Kingship
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (forgotten white sail; Aegeus leaps to his death; Theseus becomes king; Aegean Sea)
Return of the Heraclidae (Heraclids)
Heroes — Heracles aftermath / Dorian foundation · Apollodorean (failed attempts; Temenus; Tisamenus; lots for the Peloponnese)
Heracles’ War on Augeas and the Molionidae
Heroes — Heracles (post-labor Elian war) · Apollodorean (+ Pindaric Olympic aftermath glance)
Hyllus and Echemus: Single Combat at Tegea
Heroes — Heraclidae / failed first return · Herodotean / Apollodorean / Pausanian — Hyllus’s death stalls the return
Death of Jason: The Timber of the Argo
Heroes — Jason / Argonautic aftermath · Euripidean prophecy + mythographic fulfillment (Argo’s beam)
Polyidus and Glaucus of Crete
Local and lesser — Cretan · Apollodorean (seer Polyidus; drowned boy; snake and herb)
Arion of Methymna and the Dolphin (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lesbian / Corinthian musical legend · Herodotean classical legend (Arion of Methymna)

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library