Salamis

Place · slug: salamis

Also: Saronic island, island, Cinyras’s kingdom, Cyprus

Stories (11)

Peleus and Telamon Kill Phocus
Heroes — Aeacid house / exile prelude to Phthia and Salamis · Apollodorean / Pausanian — fraternal murder; purification and exile
Contest for Achilles’ Arms: Ajax, Odysseus, Madness, and Suicide
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Aethiopis* end (Proclus) + Attic tragic — Sophocles *Ajax*; Apollodorean
Teucer’s Exile from Salamis and the Founding of Cyprian Salamis
Trojan — Nostoi / Aeacid aftermath · Tragic / Apollodorean / Pausanian (Telamon’s rejection; Cyprus foundation)
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
Birth of Teucer: Hesione and Telamon
Local and lesser — Salaminian / Trojan prelude (Aeacid line) · Apollodorean (Hesione awarded to Telamon; Teucer as bastard half-brother of Ajax)
Myrrha (Smyrna): Birth of Adonis from the Myrrh Tree
Local and lesser — Cypriot / Near Eastern birth aetiology · Apollodorean birth notice thickened; Ovid-labeled full incest narrative
Cinyras and Myrrha
Local and lesser — Cypriot kingship / Adonis prelude · Apollodorean / Pindaric notices of Cinyras; Myrrha crime as household disaster
Aphrodite’s Lament for Adonis (Bion)
Local and lesser — Adonis / bucolic lament · Hellenistic bucolic — Bion’s *Lament for Adonis* (Greek)
The Telchines of Rhodes
Local and lesser — Rhodian primal craftsmen / malign sorcerers · Strabo / Diodorus / Ovid-labeled / Pindaric notices — first smiths; jealous magicians
Anaxarete and Iphis (Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Cypriot / Roman metamorphosis / hard-hearted beloved · Roman transmission (Ovid) — stone-hearted maiden; Aphrodite’s vengeance

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Salamis

Stories (11)

Characters in shared stories