Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (15)

• Typhon Against Zeus (Apollodorus)
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Apollodorean (substantially different combat narrative from Hesiodic Typhoeus)
• The Gigantomachy: Full Battle (Apollodorus)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian defense of the cosmos · Apollodorean catalogue battle (full divine pairings; Heracles as mortal ally)
• Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryon (Helios’s Cup, Orthrus, Erytheia)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Erytheia/Gadira; triple-bodied Geryon; Orthrus and Eurytion; Helios’s golden cup; homeward cattle-drive with Eryx and Hera’s gadfly)
• Daedalus and Icarus: The Flight from Crete
  Heroes — Daedalus · Apollodorean (wings of feathers and wax; Icarus falls; Daedalus to Sicily)
• Heracles and Eryx: Wrestling for the Bull
  Heroes — Heracles / side episode on the Geryon cattle-drive · Apollodorean — Eryx slain in wrestling after a runaway bull reaches Sicily
• Euripides *Cyclops* (Satyr Play): Odysseus and Polyphemus
  Trojan — Odyssey side-tradition / satyr drama · Attic satyr play — Euripides *Cyclops* (vs. Homeric *Odyssey* 9)
• Death of Minos in Sicily (Cocalus)
  Local and lesser — Cretan / Sicilian · Apollodorean (pursuit of Daedalus; Cocalus’s daughters; scalding bath)
• Alpheus and Arethusa
  Local and lesser — Arcadian / Sicilian spring aetiology · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek river–spring myth; Pindaric and Pausanian Greek notices
• Polyphemus and Galatea (Theocritus, *Idyll* 11)
  Local and lesser — Sicilian / Cyclops love (pre-Odyssean temper) · Theocritean Greek bucolic (Cyclops as rustic lover; no Acis)
• Acis, Galatea, and Polyphemus (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Sicilian love triangle / river aetiology · Roman transmission (Ovid); builds on Theocritean Polyphemus–Galatea love
• Daphnis (Theocritus)
  Local and lesser — Sicilian bucolic / herdsman hero · Theocritean (*Idyll* 1); Stesichorean and Sicilian precedent notices
• Arion of Methymna and the Dolphin (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lesbian / Corinthian musical legend · Herodotean classical legend (Arion of Methymna)
• Euthymus and the Hero of Temesa (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Locrian / South Italian hero combat · Pausanian — haunted Temesa; Homeric sailor-daimon; boxer Euthymus frees the city
• Aristeas of Proconnesus (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Herodotean wonder-tale / Hyperborean poetry · Herodotean — death in the fuller’s shop; reappearance; *Arimaspea*
• The Palici of Sicily
  Local and lesser — Sicilian twin gods / crater lakes / oath cult · Aeschylean *Aetnaeae* notices + Macrobian antiquarian synthesis — twin sons of Zeus and Thalia (or Aetna); boiling lakes; sanctuary of oaths

Characters in shared stories

• Acis
• Aegipan
• Ajax
• Alcyoneus
• Amphitrite
• Apollo, Dionysus, Hecate, Hephaestus, Poseidon, Hermes, Artemis, the Moirai
• Arion of Methymna
• Aristeas
• Artemis
• Asterion
• Callirrhoe
• Chrysaor
• Cocalus
• Corinthian sailors
• Cretans
• Daedalus
• Daphnis
• Daughters of Cocalus
• Delphyne
• Dionysus
• Dolphin
• Ephialtes, Eurytus, Clytius, Mimas, Enceladus, Polybotes, Hippolytus, Gration, Agrius, Thoas, Pallas
• Eros
• Eryx
• Eurytion
• Euthymus of Locri
• Faunus
• Fuller of Proconnesus
• Gaia
• Geryon
• Goatherd
• Hades
• Helios
• Helios, Selene, Eos
• Hephaestus
• Hera
• Heracles
• Hermes
• Hero of Temesa
• Hesperides