Lycia
Place · slug: lycia
Also: Caria, Ida, often in later landscape, Thraceward isle, near Halicarnassus, Milesian territory
- Offspring of Echidna and Typhon (Hesiodic Monster Catalogue)
Cosmogony / Theogony — monster genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue (*Theogony* Typhonid brood)
- Hypnos and Thanatos: Sleep and Death, Children of Night
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Sleep and Death · Hesiodic genealogy (+ Homeric twin imagery)
- Hephaestus Cast from Heaven by Zeus
Olympian gods · Homeric / Apollodorean — Zeus casts Hephaestus for defending Hera
- Ares and Aphrodite Caught by Hephaestus
Olympian gods · Homeric — Demodocus’s song in *Odyssey* 8
- Ganymede Abducted by Zeus
Olympian gods / Trojan royal house · Homeric / Homeric Hymn / Apollodorean (eagle or gods; cupbearer; immortality)
- Marriage of Hephaestus and Aphrodite
Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Aphrodite · Homeric marital pairing (beyond the net-song) / handbook olympian household
- Zeus Hangs Hera with Anvils (Iliad)
Olympian gods — Zeus / Hera conflict · Homeric (*Iliad* recalled punishment)
- Departure and the Women of Lemnos (Hypsipyle)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Lemnian women; Hypsipyle; sojourn and departure)
- Bellerophon: Anteia’s False Accusation, Proetus, Iobates, and the Chimera
Heroes — Bellerophon · Homeric / Apollodorean (Potiphar’s-wife pattern; sealed tokens; Chimera slain)
- Bellerophon, Pegasus, Further Tasks, and the Fall from Heaven
Heroes — Bellerophon · Pindaric / Apollodorean (+ Homeric end note): Pegasus tamed; heavenward attempt; wandering end
- Orion: Blinding, Death Variants, and the Stars
Heroes — Orion · Apollodorean / Homeric / astral (Oenopion; scorpion; Artemis; Eos)
- Opheltes (Archemorus): Death at Nemea and the Nemean Games
Heroes — Theban / Nemean aetiology · Apollodorean / tragic / Pausanian
- Hypsipyle at Nemea: Exile, Nurse, and Rescue
Heroes — Lemnian / Nemean / Seven Against Thebes · Euripidean (*Hypsipyle*) / Apollodorean
- Philoctetes’ Isolation on Lemnos (Sophocles)
Heroes — Philoctetes / Trojan muster aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Philoctetes* (isolation and wound focus)
- Europa’s Sons in Crete: Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon
Heroes — Cretan royal foundations / Europa cycle aftermath · Apollodorean / Homeric — three sons of Zeus and Europa; Cretan kingship; Sarpedon’s dual identity
- Second Gathering; Philoctetes Abandoned on Lemnos
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Sophoclean wound-aetiology)
- Achilles’ Early Exploits in the Troad (Cypria)
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean summary level (raids before the *Iliad*)
- Patroclus in Achilles’ Armor; Death at Hector’s Hands
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 16
- Fetching Philoctetes: Bow of Heracles Returned to the War
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Attic tragic — Sophocles *Philoctetes*
- Capture of Helenus and the Prophecies of Troy’s Fall
Trojan — Little Iliad / late-war oracles · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Helenus seized; conditions of capture named)
- Death of Sarpedon (Iliad)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian allies · Homeric (*Iliad* 16)
- Glaucus and Diomedes: Guest-Friendship and Armor Exchange (*Iliad* 6)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian–Argive link · Homeric (*Iliad* 6)
- Hypnos and Thanatos Carry Sarpedon’s Body (Iliad)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian allies / divine escort · Homeric (*Iliad* 16) — Sleep and Death as funeral conveyers
- Lycaon and Achilles (Iliad 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ river aristeia · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
- Hera’s Deception of Zeus on Ida (Dios Apate, *Iliad* 14)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 14 · Homeric — Dios apate (the Deception of Zeus)
- Hera Bribes Hypnos to Lull Zeus (*Iliad* 14)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Dios apate prelude · Homeric — Sleep’s fear of Zeus; promise of Pasithea; lull on Ida
- Patroclus’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Patroclus turns the Trojans; kills Sarpedon; presses to the wall
- Endymion and Selene
Local and lesser — Elian / Carian sleep myth · Apollodorean / Pausanian (eternal sleep; Selene’s visits); Hesiodic genealogy of Endymion as Elian king
- Hermaphroditus and Salmacis
Local and lesser — Carian spring metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek cult/toponym of Salmacis at Halicarnassus
- Byblis
Local and lesser — Milesian / Carian · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek mythographers know Byblis as lover of her twin Caunus
- Latona and the Lycian Peasants (Frogs)
Local and lesser — Lycian aetiology / Leto’s wanderings · **Roman** transmission (Ovid) of Leto (Latona) and the Lycian rustics; frogs as lasting punishment
- Glaucus of Sparta and the Delphic Temptation (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Spartan logos / Delphic morality tale · Herodotean — deposit, perjury contemplated, lineage extinguished