Olympia
Place · slug: olympia
Also: aftermath, Athens, Acropolis, Long Rocks, Cecropia
- Apollo’s Hyperborean Sojourn
Olympian gods / Apollo — Hyperborean myth · Pindaric / Herodotus / Delphic–Delian classical notices
- Eileithyia: Goddess of Childbirth
Olympian gods — Hera’s daughter / birth-aid · Hesiodic / Homeric — Eileithyia (or Eileithyiae) as birth-goddess
- Bendis: Thracian Artemis in Athens
Olympian gods / Thracian cult in Attica — Bendis · Classical Attic reception — Bendideia at Piraeus; Plato’s dramatic date
- Madness of Heracles: Murder of Wife and Children (Euripidean, after the Labors)
Heroes — Heracles · Attic tragic — Euripides (madness *after* return from the labors; Lycus episode; Megara slain; Theseus as comforter)
- Third Labor: The Ceryneian (Cerynitian) Hind
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (golden-horned hind sacred to Artemis; year-long chase; confrontation with Artemis and Apollo)
- Fifth Labor: The Augean Stables
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (cleaning by river diversion; wage-quarrel with Augeas; Phyleus as witness; Eurystheus again refuses to count the labor)
- Birth of Theseus: Aethra, Aegeus, and Poseidon (Double Paternity)
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan compilation (Trozenian conception; Aegeus and Poseidon both named as fathers)
- Tokens under the Rock; Decision for the Land Road
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (recognition tokens; Theseus chooses the bandit-ridden Isthmus road over the sea)
- Road Labor: Procrustes (Damastes) and the Bed
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (last Isthmus/Attic bandit; stretched or cut to fit the bed; killed likewise)
- Arrival at Athens: Medea’s Poison and Recognition by the Sword
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Medea as Aegeus’s wife plots poison; recognition by sword/sandals; Medea flees)
- 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
- Aegeus’s Death: The Black Sails and Theseus’s Kingship
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (forgotten white sail; Aegeus leaps to his death; Theseus becomes king; Aegean Sea)
- Theseus and the Amazons: Antiope (or Hippolyte)
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus takes Amazon bride Antiope or Hippolyte; Amazon invasion of Attica)
- Hippolytus and Phaedra (Euripides)
Heroes — Theseus · Attic tragic — Euripides, *Hippolytus* (Phaedra’s forbidden love; Theseus’s curse; Artemis and Aphrodite)
- Theseus and Pirithous in Hades: The Attempt on Persephone
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (descent to seize Persephone; binding on the Chair of Forgetfulness; Heracles frees Theseus)
- Corinth: Jason, Medea, Glauce, and the Deaths of the Children (Euripides)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (aftermath) · Attic tragic — Euripides *Medea* (divorce for Glauce; poisoned gifts; filicide; Aegeus; escape to Athens)
- Daedalus and Icarus: The Flight from Crete
Heroes — Daedalus · Apollodorean (wings of feathers and wax; Icarus falls; Daedalus to Sicily)
- Oedipus at Colonus: Arrival, Death, and Heroic Passing
Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Oedipus at Colonus* (+ Apollodorean notice)
- Ion and Creusa: Athenian Foundation (Euripides)
Heroes — Attic foundation / Erechtheid line · Attic tragic — Euripides *Ion* (+ Apollodorean genealogy of Xuthus and Ion)
- Theseus and the Synoecism of Attica
Heroes — Theseus / Attic political myth · Plutarchan / Thucydidean political myth (+ Apollodorean kingship glance)
- Cecrops: Earth-Born Founder of Athens
Heroes — Attic kings / foundation · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic (autochthon; first king; contest judge)
- Cranaus: Attica in the Time of Deucalion’s Flood
Heroes — Attic kings / flood generation · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic king-list
- Hellenic Tribes: Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus
Heroes — Aeolid / tribal eponyms · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* / ethnographic myth
- Death of Theseus: Lycomedes on Scyros
Heroes — Theseus (end) · Apollodorean / Plutarchan biographical tradition
- Amphictyon, Son of Deucalion
Heroes — Deucalionid / Attic king-list bridge · Apollodorean / Pausanian
- Adrastus of Argos: Kingship, Arion, and Survival
Heroes — Theban / Argive (Seven Against Thebes) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / tragic
- Orestes’ Purification at Delphi
Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath (also Trojan nostoi) · Aeschylean / Apollodorean handbook (Delphic cleansing)
- Artemis at Brauron: Iphigenia and the Attic Cult
Local and lesser — Attic cult aetiology / Artemis Brauronia · Euripidean / Pausanian — Iphigenia brings the Tauric image to Brauron (or Halai)