Mount Cithaeron

Place · slug: mount-cithaeron

Also: herdsman’s country

Artemis and Actaeon
Olympian gods · Apollodorean “general opinion” (bathing / stag metamorphosis), with Callimachus as earliest surviving poetic parallel; Acusilaus–Stesichorus Semele-rival strand noted
Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
Birth and Exposure of Oedipus; Rearing by Polybus and Merope
Theban · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (Cithaeron exposure; Corinthian fosterage)
Plague at Thebes and the Discovery of the Truth (*Oedipus Tyrannus*)
Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Oedipus Tyrannus* (+ Apollodorean summary)
Blinding of Oedipus and Exile from Thebes
Theban · Sophoclean (*OT* end) / Apollodorean (exile timing variants)
Pentheus and Dionysus (*Bacchae*): Theban Cult Myth
Theban · Attic tragic — Euripides *Bacchae* (+ Apollodorean summary)
Amphion and Zethus: The Walls of Thebes
Theban · Apollodorean / Homeric (*Odyssey* Antiope) / Pausanian
Antiope: Zeus, Lycus, and Dirce (Euripides / Apollodorus)
Heroes — Theban / Amphion–Zethus prelude · Euripidean (*Antiope* fragments) / Apollodorean / Homeric (*Odyssey* 11)
Heracles and the Fifty Daughters of Thespius
Heroes — Heracles / youth; Thespian progeny · Apollodorean / Pausanian — fifty nights; Thespiades as mothers of Heracles’ sons

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library