Mysia

Place · slug: mysia

Also: Teuthrania, Lydia, Cius

Stories (22)

Ninth Labor: Hippolyte’s Belt (Hera’s Rumor and the Death of the Queen)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Admete’s desire; Hippolyte first willing; Hera as Amazon spreads rumor; Heracles kills Hippolyte and takes the belt of Ares)
Telephus: Auge, Birth, and the Mysian Kingship
Heroes — Heraclean offspring / Mysian; Trojan prelude · Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Auge* / *Telephus* notices; Hesiodic *Catalogue*)
Thersander and the Epigoni Sack of Thebes
Heroes — Theban / Epigoni · Apollodorean / cyclic / Pausanian — Thersander as Polynices’ heir installed
Heracles and Syleus: The Vineyard
Heroes — Heracles / Omphale-period side deed · Apollodorean / tragic (Euripides *Syleus*) — forced digging; host slain
Heracles, Theiodamas, and the Dryopians
Heroes — Heracles / side campaigns; Hylas’s parentage · Apollodorean — Theiodamas slain; Dryopian war; Hylas taken
Telephus in Mysia: The First Landing Mistake
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Teuthrania taken for Troy; wound and later healing)
Eurypylus of Mysia at Troy: Slain by Neoptolemus
Trojan — Little Iliad / Posthomeric endgame · Cyclic (*Little Iliad*) / Apollodorean / Posthomeric (Quintus); Pausanian for Machaon link
Poseidon Rallies the Greeks (*Iliad* 13)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 13 · Homeric — Poseidon’s covert aid against Zeus’s will
Raid on the Cicones at Ismarus (*Odyssey* 9)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings begin · Homeric — first post-Troy disaster in Odysseus’s apologue
Achilles Consoles Priam with Niobe (*Iliad* 24)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Ransom of Hector · Homeric — Niobe’s grief and return to food as consolation paradeigma
Rhesus Slain in the Dolonia (*Iliad* 10)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Night raid · Homeric — Odysseus and Diomedes kill the Thracian king and take his horses
Hylas Abducted by the Nymphs
Local and lesser — Mysian / Argonautic episode · Apollonian (*Argonautica*); Theocritean idyll; Apollodorean brief notice
Oreithyia and Boreas
Local and lesser — Attic / Thracian wind myth · Apollodorean / Platonic Attic (abduction from the Ilissus); Herodotus on Boreas as Athenian ally
Thamyris Challenges the Muses
Local and lesser — Thracian / poetic hybris · Homeric (*Iliad* 2) / Apollodorean / Pausanian
Linus: Aetiology of the Mourning Song
Local and lesser — musical aetiology / harvest lament · Homeric / Hesiodic / Pindaric / Pausanian (multiple Linus figures; song *ailinon*)
Apollo vs Pan: Musical Contest (Midas Judge)
Local and lesser — Phrygian / musical contest · Roman transmission (Ovid) of the Tmolus contest — separate from the thin ass-ears summary in 003 and from Apollo–Marsyas (02/016)
Orpheus’s Head and Lyre Reach Lesbos
Local and lesser — Orphic aftermath / Lesbian cult aetiology · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Hellenistic (head floats singing; Lesbian oracle; lyre catasterized or dedicated)
Tiresias: Snakes, Gender Change, Blindness, and Prophecy
Local and lesser — Theban seer / gender and sight · Apollodorean (double sex; Hera–Zeus quarrel; blindness; prophetic gift)
Manto, Daughter of Tiresias
Local and lesser — Theban / prophetic lineage; colonial aetiology · Apollodorean / tragic / Pausanian
Death of Machaon (Eurypylus)
Local and lesser — Asclepiads / Trojan endgame · Cyclic / Posthomeric / Pausanian
Lyra: The Lyre of Orpheus (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orpheus · Catasterismic handbook — Orpheus’s lyre placed among the stars
Scyles and Dionysus at Olbia
Local and lesser — Scythian logos / Dionysiac transgression · Herodotean — bilingual king; Greek rites at Borysthenes; Scythian execution

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Mysia

Stories (22)

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