Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• The Proetides: Madness and Melampus’s Cure
  Olympian gods / Argive — Hera or Dionysus; Melampus cross-link · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* (Proetides; Melampus’s bargain for Argos)
• Birth of Aegisthus: Thyestes and Pelopia
  Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean; prelude to Agamemnon’s murder · Apollodorean / Hyginus (oracle; night rape; sword-token; recognition)
• Antiope: Zeus, Lycus, and Dirce (Euripides / Apollodorus)
  Heroes — Theban / Amphion–Zethus prelude · Euripidean (*Antiope* fragments) / Apollodorean / Homeric (*Odyssey* 11)
• Nycteus and Lycus: Theban Usurpation Setup
  Heroes — Theban political prelude (pre-Amphionid) · Apollodorean / Pausanian genealogical politics

Characters in shared stories

• Acrisius
• Aegisthus
• Agamemnon
• Amphion
• Antiope
• Argive women
• Artemis
• Atreus
• Bias
• Cadmus
• Chthonius
• Dionysus
• Dirce
• Epopeus
• Goat
• Labdacus
• Laius
• Lycus
• Melampus
• Nycteus
• Oracle
• Pelopia
• Proetides
• Proetus
• The Hours
• Theban shepherd
• Thyestes
• Zethus