Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Ino–Leucothea and Melicertes–Palaemon
  Olympian gods — Dionysiac family / sea-cult · Apollodorean / Homeric (Ino as Leucothea in *Odyssey*); tragic Athamas madness
• Poseidon and Helios Contest for Corinth
  Olympian gods / Corinthian aetiology · Pausanian — Briareos arbitrates; Isthmus to Poseidon, Acrocorinth height to Helios
• Seventh Labor: The Cretan Bull
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (bull of Crete brought alive; released; later the Marathonian bull)
• Road Labor: Sinis Pityocamptes the Pine-Bender
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Isthmus pine-bender; killed by his own method; Perigune)
• Pelops and Oenomaus: The Chariot Race for Hippodamia
  Heroes — Tantalids / Pelops (Trojan genealogy gateway) · Apollodorean (Myrtilus’s sabotage; winged horses from Poseidon; curse on the Pelopids)

Characters in shared stories

• Amphitrite
• Artemis
• Athamas
• Atreus and Thyestes
• Briareus
• Cadmus and Harmonia
• Cretan Bull
• Dionysus
• Helios
• Heracles
• Hippodamia
• Ino
• Learchus
• Melanippus
• Melicertes
• Minos
• Myrtilus
• Odysseus
• Oenomaus
• Pasiphaë
• Pelops
• Perigune
• Phrixus and Helle
• Polypemon
• Poseidon
• Prior suitors
• Semele
• Sinis
• Sisyphus
• Tantalus
• The Hours
• Theseus