Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (11)

• Andromeda at Joppa: Local Palestinian Localization
  Heroes — Perseus · Local Joppa / Iope (classical travel and geographic notices vs. Apollodorean Ethiopia)
• Cadmus and the Founding of Thebes (Dragon’s Teeth)
  Heroes — Cadmus / Theban cycle gateway · Apollodorean (Europa search; Delphic cow; Castalian dragon; Spartoi; Harmonia)
• Europa’s Abduction: Zeus and the Bull
  Heroes — Europa / Cretan kings (preface to Cadmus) · Apollodorean / Moschus (Zeus as bull; Crete; Minos, Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon)
• Cadmus and His Brothers Search for Europa
  Heroes — Europa cycle / Phoenician diaspora / Theban prelude · Apollodorean — Agenor’s command; Phoenix, Cilix, Cadmus, Telephassa disperse
• Odysseus’s Cretan Lies (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / false autobiographies / *pseudologia* · Homeric — Cretan persona told to Athena, Eumaeus, and Penelope
• Helen in Egypt: Recognition and Escape (Euripides)
  Trojan — Euripidean *Helen* / post-Troy Egypt plot · Attic tragic — Menelaus finds the real Helen; eidolon vanishes; escape from Theoclymenus
• Busiris and Heracles in Egypt
  Local and lesser — Heraclean / Egyptian encounter (Labors itinerary) · Apollodorean (+ Pherecydian / Isocratean rhetorical use; vase tradition)
• Linus: Aetiology of the Mourning Song
  Local and lesser — musical aetiology / harvest lament · Homeric / Hesiodic / Pindaric / Pausanian (multiple Linus figures; song *ailinon*)
• Polycrates’ Ring (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Samian tyrant legend (Herodotean) · Herodotean classical legend (historical frame; proverbial fortune)
• Taurus: Zeus’s Bull and Europa (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Zeus and Europa · Catasterismic handbook — bull of Europa (or Io) as Taurus
• Periander and Melissa (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Corinthian tyrant logos / necromantic inquiry · Herodotean — Periander’s crime against Melissa; consultation of the Thesprotian dead

Characters in shared stories

• Aeaces
• Agenor
• Ajax
• Amasis
• Amphitrite
• Andromeda
• Aphrodite
• Ares
• Artemis
• Asterion
• Busiris
• Cadmus
• Calliope
• Cepheus
• Companions of Europa
• Cooks
• Corinthian women
• Deucalion
• Dragon of Ares
• Eros
• Eumaeus
• Europa
• Fisherman
• Harmonia
• Heralds
• Io
• Iphidamas
• Linus
• Lysianassa
• Lyssa
• Maneros
• Melissa
• Messengers
• Minos
• Olympian gods
• Oroetes
• Orpheus
• Periander
• Perseus
• Philotes