Rock tomb

Place · slug: rock-tomb

Also: cave, Sicyon, Olympia

Stories (11)

Antigone, the Burial of Polynices, and Creon’s Edict
Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (+ Apollodorean aftermath)
Creon of Thebes: Tyranny after the Brothers
Heroes — Theban / Creonid rule · Sophoclean / Euripidean / Apollodorean (post-Seven kingship)
Haemon’s Suicide (Sophocles, Antigone)
Heroes — Theban / Antigone aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone*
Ismene: Fate Variants (Antigone’s Sister)
Heroes — Theban / Oedipus’s daughters · Sophoclean survival vs. tragic / handbook death variants
Eurydice of Thebes: Suicide after Haemon (Sophocles)
Heroes — Theban / Antigone aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone*
Melampus the Seer
Local and lesser — Argive / Amythaonid seers · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* tradition (serpents; cattle of Phylacus; Proetides)
Hygieia: Birth and Cult (Brief)
Local and lesser — Asclepiad / healing gods · Classical cult / Apollodorean Asclepiad family / Pausanian
Periander and Melissa (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Corinthian tyrant logos / necromantic inquiry · Herodotean — Periander’s crime against Melissa; consultation of the Thesprotian dead
Birth of Iamus at Olympia (Pindar)
Local and lesser — Olympian seer-clan / Iamidai · Pindaric — Evadne bears Iamus; two dragons feed him; Apollo grants voice of prophecy
Cypselus, Labda, and the Chest (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Corinthian foundation / Bacchiad oracle · Herodotean — lame Labda; oracles; baby hidden in a *kypsele*; tyrant of Corinth
Glaucus of Potniae and the Man-Eating Mares
Local and lesser — Boeotian / Corinthian Glaucus / tragic horse-horror · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Virgilian notice — mares of Potniae devour their master

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Rock tomb

Stories (11)

Characters in shared stories