Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Ninth Labor: Hippolyte’s Belt (Hera’s Rumor and the Death of the Queen)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Admete’s desire; Hippolyte first willing; Hera as Amazon spreads rumor; Heracles kills Hippolyte and takes the belt of Ares)
• Ninth Labor: The Amazons (Melanippe’s Ransom — No Murder of Hippolyte)
  Heroes — Heracles · Diodorean (pitched Amazon war; Melanippe freed for her girdle as ransom; Antiope given to Theseus; Hippolyte not the slain prize-bearer)
• Theseus and the Amazons: Antiope (or Hippolyte)
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus takes Amazon bride Antiope or Hippolyte; Amazon invasion of Attica)

Characters in shared stories

• Alcaeus and Sthenelus
• Amazons
• Amycus
• Androgeus
• Antiope
• Ares
• Artemis
• Bebryces
• Electra
• Heracles
• Hippolyte
• Hippolytus
• Lycus
• Melanippe
• Minos
• Molpadia
• Mygdon
• Phaedra
• Poltys
• Polygonus and Telegonus
• Poseidon
• Proteus
• Sarpedon
• Sons of Minos
• Theseus