Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (18)

• Zeus Abducts Aegina
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s loves / Aeginetan foundation · Apollodorean / Pindaric — eagle or pursuit; Asopus’s search
• Britomartis–Dictynna: The Cretan Chase and the Nets
  Olympian gods / Cretan local — companion of Artemis · Callimachean / Pausanian Cretan — Britomartis flees Minos; nets; Dictynna
• Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Aeacus: Judges of the Dead
  Olympian gods / underworld order — judicial afterlife · Homeric / Platonic / Apollodorean — three mortal kings as underworld judges
• Seventh Labor: The Cretan Bull
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (bull of Crete brought alive; released; later the Marathonian bull)
• The Bull of Marathon
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Marathonian bull = Cretan bull released by Heracles; Theseus captures and sacrifices it)
• Tribute to Minos and the Voyage to Crete
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Androgeus’s death; Athenian tribute of youths and maidens; Theseus volunteers)
• The Minotaur and the Labyrinth: Ariadne’s Thread and Daedalus
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Ariadne’s love; thread; Theseus kills the Minotaur; escape from Daedalus’s Labyrinth)
• Ariadne on Naxos: Abandonment and Dionysus
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean main line (Theseus leaves Ariadne on Naxos/Dia; Dionysus takes her); alternate classical strands noted
• Talos on Crete
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (bronze guardian; ankle vein; Medea’s defeat of Talos)
• Daedalus and Icarus: The Flight from Crete
  Heroes — Daedalus · Apollodorean (wings of feathers and wax; Icarus falls; Daedalus to Sicily)
• Europa’s Abduction: Zeus and the Bull
  Heroes — Europa / Cretan kings (preface to Cadmus) · Apollodorean / Moschus (Zeus as bull; Crete; Minos, Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon)
• Peleus and Telamon Kill Phocus
  Heroes — Aeacid house / exile prelude to Phthia and Salamis · Apollodorean / Pausanian — fraternal murder; purification and exile
• Idomeneus and the Vow (Human Sacrifice / Exile)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Cretan return · Apollodorean / Servian–handbook nostos (vow; plague; exile)
• Ajax Telamonian: Tomb and Cult
  Trojan — Ajax aftermath / hero cult · Homeric / cyclic / Pausanian / local Rhoetean
• Aeacus, Aegina, and the Myrmidons (Peleus’s People)
  Local and lesser — Aeginetan / Phthian · Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled ant metamorphosis; Hesiodic and Pindaric Aeacus notices
• Pasiphaë and the Bull
  Local and lesser — Cretan / Minos cycle · Apollodorean (Poseidon’s bull; Daedalus’s cow; birth of the Minotaur)
• The Three Judges of the Dead (Minos, Rhadamanthys, Aeacus)
  Local and lesser — underworld eschatology · Platonic / Apollodorean / Homeric (Minos) overview
• Damia and Auxesia: Aeginetan Cult and Athenian Hostages (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Epidaurian–Aeginetan–Attic cult logos · Herodotean — olive-wood statues; Aeginetan theft; Athenian disaster

Characters in shared stories

• Aeacidae
• Aeacus
• Aegeus
• Aegina
• Aeginetans
• Agamemnon / Achilles
• Agenor
• Ajax
• Amphitrite
• Androgeus
• Ares
• Argonauts
• Ariadne
• Artemis
• Asopus
• Asterion
• Athenian youths and maidens
• Britomartis
• Bull of Marathon
• Cadmus
• Carme
• Cocalus
• Companions of Europa
• Cretan Bull
• Cretans
• Cronus
• Daedalus
• Damia and Auxesia
• Daughters of Cocalus
• Deucalion
• Dionysus
• Endeis
• Epidaurians
• Europa
• Fishermen
• Fourteen Athenian youths and maidens
• Hecale
• Heracles
• Hesperides
• Hyperion