Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (14)

• Dioscuri: Castor’s Death and Shared Immortality
  Olympian gods / Spartan Dioscuri · Homeric / Pindaric / Apollodorean (cattle raid; Idas and Lynceus; alternate days)
• Poseidon and Tyro: The Enipeus Deception; Birth of Pelias and Neleus
  Olympian gods / Aeolid heroic prelude · Homeric (*Odyssey* 11) / Apollodorean
• Apollo, Marpessa, and Idas
  Olympian gods — Apollo / mortal love contest · Homeric / Apollodorean (Idas vs. Apollo; Marpessa’s choice)
• Apollo and Hermes: Friendship and Pact (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Apollo / Hermes · Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4) — reconciliation and gift-exchange isolated
• Aeson and Pelias: Usurpation of Iolcus
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus prelude) · Apollodorean / Pindaric Aeolid (Cretheus; Tyro; Pelias seizes the throne)
• Heracles against Neleus and the Pylians
  Heroes — Heracles / side campaigns; Nestor’s background · Apollodorean / Homeric recollection (Neleus; eleven sons; Nestor spared)
• Bias, Pero, and the Cattle of Phylacus
  Heroes — Melampodid / Pylian bride-price · Apollodorean / Odyssey genealogical — Melampus wins Pero for Bias
• Melampus in Prison: The Cure of Iphiclus
  Heroes — Melampus / Neleid–Iolcian seers / Phylace · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* — woodworms prophesy; Melampus heals Iphiclus’s impotence
• Nestor’s Safe Return to Pylos
  Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 3 / Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus)
• Telemachy: Athena at Ithaca; Telemachus Seeks News (*Odyssey* 1–4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 1–4 (Telemachy)
• Telemachus at Pylos with Nestor (*Odyssey* 3)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — first stop of Telemachus’s voyage; Nestor’s nostos-lore
• Athena as Mentor (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / divine guidance of Telemachus and Odysseus · Homeric — Athena’s recurring disguise as Odysseus’s Ithacan friend Mentor
• Nestor’s Reminiscence of the Pylian Wars (*Iliad*)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Nestor digressions / pre-Trojan saga · Homeric — Nestor’s youth against Ereuthalion, the Eleians, and the Arcadians
• Melampus the Seer
  Local and lesser — Argive / Amythaonid seers · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* tradition (serpents; cattle of Phylacus; Proetides)

Characters in shared stories

• Aeson
• Ajax
• Alcimede
• Alcippe
• Amphiaraus
• Amphitrite
• Amythaon
• Antinous
• Aphareus
• Areithous
• Artemis
• Athena
• Bias
• Castor
• Castor and Polydeuces
• Chiron
• Cleopatra
• Cretheus
• Diomedes
• Eleians
• Eleven sons of Neleus
• Enipeus
• Ereuthalion
• Eurycleia
• Evenus
• Hades
• Hecuba
• Idas
• Iphiclus
• Iphitus
• Lynceus
• Lyssa
• Maia
• Marpessa
• Melampus
• Meriones
• Neleus
• Nestor
• Odysseus
• Pallas