Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (37)

• Nemesis: Daughter of Night (Hesiodic Birth)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / divine retribution · Hesiodic — Nemesis as Night’s daughter (genealogy only)
• Demeter and Triptolemus: The Gift of Grain
  Olympian gods / Eleusinian · Apollodorean / Pausanian Eleusinian (mission of Triptolemus); Homeric Hymn foundation noted as rite-only
• Erichthonius: Hephaestus, Athena, and the Cecropids
  Olympian gods / Attic foundation · Apollodorean / Attic (Hephaestus’s attempt; earth-born child; daughters of Cecrops)
• Athena and Pallas: Childhood Friend and the Aegis
  Olympian gods / Athena · Apollodorean / Pausanian (Libyan or Tritonian childhood; accidental killing; aegis from skin)
• Ares and Halirrhothius: Trial on the Areopagus
  Olympian gods — Ares / Attic aetiology · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic (first murder trial; Areopagus named)
• Poseidon and Halirrhothius (Father of the Victim)
  Olympian gods — Poseidon / Attic · Apollodorean / Atthidographic (Poseidon as avenging father)
• Zeus and Nemesis: The Egg of Helen (*Cypria*)
  Olympian gods / Trojan prelude — parentage of Helen · Cyclic — *Cypria* (Nemesis pursued; egg; Leda as foster-mother)
• 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)
• Theseus and the Amazons: Antiope (or Hippolyte)
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus takes Amazon bride Antiope or Hippolyte; Amazon invasion of Attica)
• Theseus and Pirithous: Abduction of Helen
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus and Pirithous seize youthful Helen; she is recovered by the Dioscuri)
• Oedipus at Colonus: Arrival, Death, and Heroic Passing
  Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Oedipus at Colonus* (+ Apollodorean notice)
• Return of the Heraclidae (Heraclids)
  Heroes — Heracles aftermath / Dorian foundation · Apollodorean (failed attempts; Temenus; Tisamenus; lots for the Peloponnese)
• 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)
• Erechtheus, Eumolpus, and the Sacrifice of the Daughters
  Heroes — Attic kings / Eleusinian war · Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Erechtheus*) / Lycurgan oratory
• Cranaus: Attica in the Time of Deucalion’s Flood
  Heroes — Attic kings / flood generation · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic king-list
• Amphictyon, Son of Deucalion
  Heroes — Deucalionid / Attic king-list bridge · Apollodorean / Pausanian
• Ismene: Fate Variants (Antigone’s Sister)
  Heroes — Theban / Oedipus’s daughters · Sophoclean survival vs. tragic / handbook death variants
• Heraclidae at Athens: Death of Eurystheus
  Heroes — Heraclidae / Attic asylum · Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Heraclidae*) — Attic refuge and Eurystheus’s end
• Hyllus and Echemus: Single Combat at Tegea
  Heroes — Heraclidae / failed first return · Herodotean / Apollodorean / Pausanian — Hyllus’s death stalls the return
• Phyllis and Demophon: The Almond Tree of Thrace
  Heroes — Theseid nostoi / Thracian local · Apollodorean Epitome + Ovid-labeled Roman letters (*Heroides*)
• Theseus’s Bones Brought from Scyros to Athens
  Heroes — Theseus / Attic hero-cult translation · Plutarchan / Pausanian — Cimon recovers the bones; Theseion
• Theseus and the Suppliants: Recovery of the Seven’s Bodies
  Heroes — Theseus / Theban aftermath / Attic tragic charter · Attic tragic — Euripides *Suppliants* (Adrastus and the mothers at Eleusis)
• Macaria’s Sacrifice (*Heraclidae*)
  Heroes — Heraclidae / Attic tragic asylum · Attic tragic — Euripides *Heraclidae*; voluntary maiden sacrifice for victory
• Dioscuri Rescue Helen from Aphidna
  Heroes — Dioscuri / Theseus cycle aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Castor and Polydeuces recover Helen; Aethra captured
• Death of Androgeus and the Origin of the Athenian Tribute
  Heroes — Theseus prelude / Minos–Athens quarrel · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Androgeus slain in Attica; Minos wars; tribute of youths
• Hecale Hosts Theseus
  Heroes — Theseus / Marathonian bull / Attic hospitality aetiology · Callimachean *Hecale* — poor old woman shelters Theseus; deme and cult named for her
• Iolaus Rejuvenated by Hebe
  Heroes — Heraclidae / Euripidean miracle · Euripidean *Heraclidae* — aged Iolaus prays; Hebe and Zeus restore his youth for battle
• The Furies and the Trial at Athens (*Eumenides*)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Eumenides*
• Orestes (Euripides): Aftermath at Argos
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Orestes* (post-matricide crisis before any final acquittal staging)
• Aethra Recovered at Troy by Acamas and Demophon
  Trojan — Sack / Theseid nostoi · Cyclic / Apollodorean / Plutarchan — Theseus’s mother freed from Helen’s service
• Procris and Cephalus (Apollodorus)
  Local and lesser — Attic / Cephallenian marital tragedy · Apollodorean (gifts of Artemis; accidental killing); Pherecydes / tragic fragments
• Eos Abducts Cephalus
  Local and lesser — Dawn’s mortal loves / Attic Cephalus cycle · Euripidean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices / Apollodorean allusion (+ Pausanian)
• Pan and Pheidippides before Marathon (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Attic cult aetiology / Herodotean logos · Herodotean — Pan appears to the runner; cult of Pan established under the Acropolis

Characters in shared stories

• Academus
• Achaean
• Actaeus
• Adrastus
• Aegeus
• Aethra
• Agamemnon
• Aglauros
• Aglaurus, Herse, Pandrosus
• Agraulus
• Alcippe
• Almond tree
• Amazons
• Amphictyon
• Amphitrite
• Amphitryon
• Androgeus
• Antigone
• Antiope
• Ares
• Aristodemus
• Aristomachus
• Artemis
• Asterion
• Athena
• Atthis
• Bull of Marathon
• Castor and Polydeuces
• Cecrops
• Celeus
• Cephalus
• Chione
• Chorus of Athenian citizens
• Chorus of Colonan elders
• Chorus of Creusa’s servants
• Chrysothemis
• Cimon
• Cranae, Cranaechme
• Cranaus
• Creon