Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (6)

• Aphrodite, Phaon, and the Lesbian Ferryman
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Lesbian local legend · Classical prose notices (Aelian / Servius / Palaephatus strand) — ferry gift; youth restored; Sappho leap as later attachment
• Death of Orpheus: The Maenads
  Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean / Pausanian (torn by Thracian/Macedonian women or Maenads; head and lyre)
• Achilles’ Early Exploits in the Troad (Cypria)
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean summary level (raids before the *Iliad*)
• Arion of Methymna and the Dolphin (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lesbian / Corinthian musical legend · Herodotean classical legend (Arion of Methymna)
• Orpheus’s Head and Lyre Reach Lesbos
  Local and lesser — Orphic aftermath / Lesbian cult aetiology · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Hellenistic (head floats singing; Lesbian oracle; lyre catasterized or dedicated)
• Lyra: The Lyre of Orpheus (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orpheus · Catasterismic handbook — Orpheus’s lyre placed among the stars

Characters in shared stories

• Amphitrite
• Andromache
• Aphrodite
• Arion of Methymna
• Artemis
• Briseis
• Corinthian sailors
• Dionysus
• Dolphin
• Eetion
• Electra
• Eros
• Eurydice
• Laomedon
• Lesbians
• Lycaon
• Muses
• Nurses
• Orpheus
• Pallas
• Periander
• Phaon
• Philotes
• Sappho
• Thyestes
• Women of Lesbos