Mount Helicon
Place · slug: mount-helicon
Also: Boeotia, Athamas’s realm, Sicyon traditions, Arcadia, Oncean grove, Megalopolis region, Tegea, Cyllene, Athamantian plain, Delphi, Ocaleae, Haliartus, Apollo’s temple, Trojan beach muster, Greek muster, Elis, Argive Heraion, Heraion
- Birth of the Muses (Mnemosyne and Zeus)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian generation / arts · Hesiodic
- Ino–Leucothea and Melicertes–Palaemon
Olympian gods — Dionysiac family / sea-cult · Apollodorean / Homeric (Ino as Leucothea in *Odyssey*); tragic Athamas madness
- Dionysus and the Minyads
Olympian gods — Dionysus / Boeotian resistance · Ovidian Roman narrative (+ Aelian / Plutarch / Antoninus Liberalis Greek notices of the daughters of Minyas)
- Mnemosyne, Titaness of Memory
Olympian gods — Titan generation / memory and song · Hesiodic / Orphic-adjacent cult notices
- Zeus and Eurynome: Birth of the Charites (Graces)
Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / Charites · Hesiodic — Eurynome daughter of Oceanus
- Apollo and the Spring Telphusa (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Apollo / Delphic foundation · Homeric Hymn (Pythian) — Telphusa’s deceit before the Python
- Zeus Abducts Aegina
Olympian gods — Zeus’s loves / Aeginetan foundation · Apollodorean / Pindaric — eagle or pursuit; Asopus’s search
- Hippocrene: Pegasus and the Muses’ Spring
Olympian gods — Muses / Heliconian cult topography · Hesiodic naming + Pausanian aetiology — horse’s hoof opens the spring
- Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
- Meleager and the Calydonian Hunt (Atalanta’s Role)
Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean (pan-Hellenic muster; Atalanta first wound; Meleager awards the hide; quarrel with uncles)
- Atalanta: Birth, Exposure, and the Bear
Heroes — Atalanta · Apollodorean Arcadian (Iasus; exposure; bear; hunters; vow of virginity)
- Cadmus and the Founding of Thebes (Dragon’s Teeth)
Heroes — Cadmus / Theban cycle gateway · Apollodorean (Europa search; Delphic cow; Castalian dragon; Spartoi; Harmonia)
- Alcmaeon, Eriphyle, and the Necklace of Harmonia
Theban — Epigoni aftermath / Harmonia’s heirloom curse · Apollodorean (matricide; purification; Callirrhoe; death)
- Telephus: Auge, Birth, and the Mysian Kingship
Heroes — Heraclean offspring / Mysian; Trojan prelude · Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Auge* / *Telephus* notices; Hesiodic *Catalogue*)
- Athamas’s Madness: From Fleece Intrigue to the Killing of Learchus
Heroes — Aeolid / Athamas house (bridge between fleece origin and Ino’s leap) · Apollodorean (Hera’s madness after Dionysus-nursing; Learchus slain)
- Heracles’ War on Augeas and the Molionidae
Heroes — Heracles (post-labor Elian war) · Apollodorean (+ Pindaric Olympic aftermath glance)
- Adrastus of Argos: Kingship, Arion, and Survival
Heroes — Theban / Argive (Seven Against Thebes) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / tragic
- Parthenopaeus: Death at Thebes
Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
- Hippomedon: Death at Thebes
Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
- Polynices and Argia (Argeia): Marriage at Argos
Heroes — Theban / Argive alliance · Apollodorean / tragic / cyclic (Adrastus’s daughters; lion and boar)
- Argia Helps Bury Polynices (Variant)
Heroes — Theban / burial aftermath · Handbook / post-Sophoclean variant (Argia with Antigone)
- Thersander and the Epigoni Sack of Thebes
Heroes — Theban / Epigoni · Apollodorean / cyclic / Pausanian — Thersander as Polynices’ heir installed
- Orestes’ Wanderings and Alternate Purifications (beyond *Eumenides*)
Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Euripidean notices (multi-site cleansing)
- Alcmaeon and Callirhoe: The Necklace’s Second Curse
Heroes — Epigoni aftermath / Alcmaeon’s wanderings · Apollodorean — Psophis to Achelous; Callirhoe’s demand; death in Psophis
- Hyllus and Echemus: Single Combat at Tegea
Heroes — Heraclidae / failed first return · Herodotean / Apollodorean / Pausanian — Hyllus’s death stalls the return
- Arcas: Eponymous King of Arcadia (Pausanias)
Heroes — Arcadian kings / Callisto aftermath · Pausanian / Apollodorean — Arcas names Arcadia; divides the land among sons
- Athamas and Themisto
Heroes — Athamantid / Boeotian–Thessalian tragedy · Apollodorean / Hyginus — Themisto’s plot; mistaken filicide; Athamas’s further ruin
- Cadmus and His Brothers Search for Europa
Heroes — Europa cycle / Phoenician diaspora / Theban prelude · Apollodorean — Agenor’s command; Phoenix, Cilix, Cadmus, Telephassa disperse
- Alcmaeon at Psophis: Phegeus and the Necklace
Heroes — Epigoni aftermath / Alcmaeon cycle / Arcadian Psophis · Apollodorean — Phegeus shelters Alcmaeon; necklace of Harmonia; murder and revenge
- Acarnan and Amphoterus: The Naming of Acarnania
Heroes — Alcmaeon aftermath / Acarnanian eponym · Apollodorean / Thucydidean digression — sons of Alcmaeon and Callirhoe avenge and name the land
- Sybaris (Lamia) of Mount Cirphis
Heroes / local monster — Delphic / Phocian aetiology · Antoninus Liberalis (from Nicander) — cave-monster; youth-tribute; Eurybatus destroys her
- Agamedes and Trophonius: The Treasury of Hyrieus
Heroes / Boeotian — master builders; prelude to Trophonius’s oracle · Pausanian — removable stone; thefts; decapitation; earth swallows Trophonius
- Rhadamanthys and Alcmene in Boeotia
Heroes — after Heracles / Cretan lawgiver in Boeotia · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Rhadamanthys weds Alcmene; settles at Ocaleae or Haliartus
- Oath of Tyndareus and the Gathering of the Greeks
Trojan · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* strand (+ *Cypria* muster)
- Odysseus’s Feigned Madness and Palamedes
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (recruitment ruse; Palamedes’s test)
- Sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis (Deer Substitute)
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Iphigenia at Aulis*); Artemis substitutes a deer
- Telephus in Mysia: The First Landing Mistake
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Teuthrania taken for Troy; wound and later healing)
- Second Gathering; Philoctetes Abandoned on Lemnos
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Sophoclean wound-aetiology)
- Agamemnon’s Return and Murder (Aeschylus / Nostoi)
Trojan — Nostoi · Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*
- Orestes Avenges Agamemnon (*Choephoroi* / Libation Bearers)
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (+ Homeric / Apollodorean revenge notice)
- Electra: Recognition and Revenge (Sophocles)
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (vs. Aeschylean *Choephoroi* recognition)
- The Furies and the Trial at Athens (*Eumenides*)
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Eumenides*
- Iphigenia among the Taurians (Euripides)
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Iphigenia in Tauris*
- Andromache (Euripides)
Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Neoptolemus · Attic tragic — Euripides *Andromache*
- Death of Neoptolemus at Delphi
Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Aeacid end · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Andromache* messenger); Delphic cult
- Hermione and Orestes: Marriage after Neoptolemus
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath; Spartan–Mycenaean succession · Euripidean (*Andromache*; *Orestes*) / Apollodorean / Odyssean glance
- Iphigenia at Aulis (Euripides) — Completed Kill / Ambiguous End
Trojan — Aulis sacrifice (tragic version) · Attic tragic — Euripides *Iphigenia at Aulis* (as distinct from *Cypria* deer-rescue in 007)
- Catalogue of Ships (*Iliad* 2)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achaean muster · Homeric — Boeotia-first catalogue of Achaean contingents
- Helenus and Andromache in Epirus: The Molossian Settlement
Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Epirote foundation · Apollodorean / Pausanian — after Neoptolemus’s death Helenus holds Andromache; Molossian line
- 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
- Cinyras and the Clay Ships
Trojan — Cypria / Cypriot king’s false contribution · Epic Cycle / handbook — Cinyras promises ships to Agamemnon; sends clay models
- Narcissus of Thespiae (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Boeotian · Pausanian local (Thespiae); Greek alternatives to Ovid’s Echo romance
- Endymion and Selene
Local and lesser — Elian / Carian sleep myth · Apollodorean / Pausanian (eternal sleep; Selene’s visits); Hesiodic genealogy of Endymion as Elian king
- Acontius and Cydippe (Callimachus)
Local and lesser — Cean / Delian · Callimachean (*Aetia*); Aristaenetus and Ovid *Heroides* 20–21 as later expansions
- Salmoneus: Imitating Zeus
Local and lesser — Thessalian / Elean / underworld sinners · Apollodorean / Vergilian echo labeled; Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices
- Glaucus of Anthedon: The Fisherman-God
Local and lesser — Boeotian / marine metamorphosis · Ovidian Roman narrative (+ Pausanian / Hellenistic notices of the Anthedonian fisherman-prophet)
- Alpheus and Arethusa
Local and lesser — Arcadian / Sicilian spring aetiology · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek river–spring myth; Pindaric and Pausanian Greek notices
- Linus: Aetiology of the Mourning Song
Local and lesser — musical aetiology / harvest lament · Homeric / Hesiodic / Pindaric / Pausanian (multiple Linus figures; song *ailinon*)
- Cleobis and Biton (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Argive piety legend (Herodotean) · Herodotean classical legend (Solon’s exemplum of a happy life)
- Amphilochus: Founder Myths (Brief)
Local and lesser — Epigoni aftermath / colonial founders · Apollodorean / Strabonian / Pausanian
- Callisto Catasterism: Arctos (Ursa Major)
Local and lesser — Arcadian / astral aetiology · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean / Pausanian Arcadian frame)
- The Pleiades: Daughters of Atlas (and Orion’s Pursuit)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook (Eratosthenes / Hyginus)
- Croesus and Solon: Who Is the Happiest Man? (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian / Herodotus legends · Herodotean — Solon’s visit and Croesus’s later recognition
- Black Demeter of Phigalia (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Arcadian Demeter aetiology / cult image · Pausanian — cave of Phigalia; horse-headed Black Demeter; wrath and famine
- Lycaon of Arcadia and Zeus Lycaeus
Local and lesser — Arcadian kings / Zeus Lykaios cult aetiology · Pausanian / Apollodorean — Lycaon’s crime; werewolf lore; Lycaean cult
- The Idaean Dactyls
Local and lesser — Cretan / Phrygian metalworkers / Rhea’s attendants · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / Pausanian / Strabo — Dactyls as first ironworkers and mystic helpers
- Olympia’s Older Foundations: Idaean Dactyls and Pelops (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Eleian / Olympia cult aetiology · Pausanian — pre-Heraclean foundations of the Olympic games