Mount Pelion
Place · slug: mount-pelion
Also: Magnesia, Thessaly, Dotium
- Hera and Ixion: The Cloud and the Birth of Centaurus
Olympian gods / Thessalian crime and punishment · Pindaric / Apollodorean (Nephele; Centaurus; wheel)
- Birth of Chiron: Cronus and Philyra
Olympian gods / Titan periphery — Chiron’s origin · Apollodorean / Hellenistic handbook — Cronus as horse; Philyra; centaur sage
- Fourth Labor: The Erymanthian Boar (and Pholus among the Centaurs)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (live capture of the boar; Pholus’s hospitality; centaur battle; Chiron’s incurable wound)
- Prophecy of Pelias and Jason’s Return with One Sandal
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean / Pindaric (oracle of the one-sandaled man; Anaurus crossing; demand for the Golden Fleece)
- Building of the Argo and Gathering of the Argonauts
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (Athena’s design; Argus the builder; catalogue of heroes)
- Peleus, Acastus, and Astydameia
Heroes — Aeacid / Thessalian (Peleus before Thetis) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (false accusation; abandonment among centaurs)
- Achilles’ Childhood: Chiron, Scyros, Deidamia, and the Birth of Pyrrhus
Heroes — Aeacid / Achilles youth (pre-Troy) · Apollodorean / cyclic / Statius-labeled Roman enrichment for Scyros household
- Chiron: Wound, Relinquished Immortality, and Teacher of Heroes
Heroes — Centaur sage / Heracles aftermath / heroic education · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Hydra-arrow wound; immortality ceded; school of heroes)
- Jason’s Education by Chiron
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (youth prelude) · Pindaric / Apollodorean brief (Pelion fosterage before the one sandal)
- Aeson and Pelias: Usurpation of Iolcus
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus prelude) · Apollodorean / Pindaric Aeolid (Cretheus; Tyro; Pelias seizes the throne)
- Hellenic Tribes: Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus
Heroes — Aeolid / tribal eponyms · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* / ethnographic myth
- Laodamia and Protesilaus: Brief Reunion and Death
Heroes — Thessalian / Trojan first-landing aftermath · Apollodorean / tragic / Ovid-labeled Roman for the statue and second death
- Ixion Bound to the Wheel
Heroes — Thessalian / underworld punishment · Pindaric / Apollodorean — wheel sentence after Nephele
- Mestra: Shape-Shifting Daughter of Erysichthon (Ovid-Labeled)
Heroes / Thessalian — Erysichthon aftermath · Roman transmission (Ovid) + Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices of Mestra
- 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
- Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: Eris and the Apple of Discord
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Pindaric wedding background)
- Landing at Troy: Protesilaus and Cycnus
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric Protesilaus notice)
- Erysichthon: Demeter’s Punishment
Local and lesser — Thessalian / Demeter cult · Callimachean (*Hymn* 6 to Demeter); Ovidian enrichment labeled Roman
- Melampus the Seer
Local and lesser — Argive / Amythaonid seers · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* tradition (serpents; cattle of Phylacus; Proetides)
- Salmoneus: Imitating Zeus
Local and lesser — Thessalian / Elean / underworld sinners · Apollodorean / Vergilian echo labeled; Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices
- Pirithous’s Wedding and the Centauromachy
Local and lesser — Lapith / Thessalian; Theseus cycle cross-link · Homeric allusion + Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled full battle; Attic vase and temple sculpture tradition