Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Athena and Arachne
  Olympian gods / Lydian metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) — fullest contest narrative; Greek notices of Athena as weaving patron thinner
• After the Labors: Iphitus’s Murder and Sale to Omphale
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (labors complete; Eurytus and Iole; murder of Iphitus; Delphic sentence of servitude; Hermes sells Heracles to Omphale of Lydia)
• Omphale in Lydia: Service and Deeds under the Queen
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (three-year Lydian servitude; Cercopes; Syleus; other Asian deeds; release)
• Sack of Troy: Laomedon Killed and Hesione Given to Telamon
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (post-Omphale expedition; Telamon and Oicles; walls scaled; Laomedon and sons slain; Priam spared; Hesione awarded to Telamon)
• Niobe: Apollo and Artemis Slaughter Her Children
  Heroes — Niobe (Theban / Lydian) · Apollodorean / Homeric (boast over Leto; children shot; stone on Sipylus)
• Tantalus: Crime and Punishment
  Heroes — Tantalids / Pelops · Homeric underworld punishment + Apollodorean crimes (feast of Pelops; theft of nectar/ambrosia)
• Heracles and the Cercopes
  Heroes — Heracles / side adventure (Ephesus–Lydia region) · Apollodorean / comic folklore handbook tradition
• Achilles Consoles Priam with Niobe (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Ransom of Hector · Homeric — Niobe’s grief and return to food as consolation paradeigma

Characters in shared stories

• Aeacus
• Ajax
• Amphion
• Amphitrite
• Apollo and Artemis
• Arachne
• Artemis
• Athena
• Cercopes
• Dardanus
• Demeter
• Eurytus
• Gods at the banquet
• Heracles
• Hesione
• Iardanus
• Idmon of Colophon
• Iole
• Iphitus
• Lamus
• Laomedon
• Megara
• Mother of the Cercopes
• Niobe
• Oicles
• Omphale
• Pallas
• Pelops
• Philotes
• Pythia
• Sons and daughters of Niobe
• Sons of Laomedon
• Syleus
• Tantalus
• Telamon
• Teucer
• The Hours
• Tmolus
• Xenodoce
• Zeus, Poseidon, and other gods