Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (26)

• Apollo and Daphne
  Olympian gods · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Greek metamorphosis; Greek notices (Parthenius; Pausanias local laurel) thinner than Ovid’s full plot
• Hera and Ixion: The Cloud and the Birth of Centaurus
  Olympian gods / Thessalian crime and punishment · Pindaric / Apollodorean (Nephele; Centaurus; wheel)
• Asclepius: Birth from Coronis; Death by Zeus; Apollo’s Revenge on the Cyclopes
  Olympian gods / Asclepiad · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Coronis; crow; thunderbolt; Cyclopes; servitude to Admetus)
• Apollo as Admetus’s Herdsman (Alcestis Setup)
  Olympian gods / Thessalian · Apollodorean / Euripidean prologue (servitude after Cyclopes; herds prosper; Fate-bargain)
• Coronis and the Crow (Raven): The Informant Bird
  Olympian gods / Asclepiad prelude · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue*; Ovid-labeled Roman for white-to-black color change
• Poseidon and Tyro: The Enipeus Deception; Birth of Pelias and Neleus
  Olympian gods / Aeolid heroic prelude · Homeric (*Odyssey* 11) / Apollodorean
• Apollo and Cyrene: The Huntress and the Birth of Aristaeus (Pindar)
  Olympian gods — Apollo / Libyan–Thessalian foundation · Pindaric — Apollo’s love for Cyrene; Aristaeus born; Libya allotted
• Thetis’s Prophecy: Zeus and Poseidon Renounce Her
  Olympian gods — Zeus / Poseidon / Thetis; Achillean prelude · Pindaric / Apollodorean — son destined to be mightier than his father
• Homeric Hymn to Asclepius (16)
  Olympian gods / heroes — Asclepius / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XVI — birth from Apollo and Coronis; healer of disease
• Alcestis Rescued from Death
  Heroes — Heracles · Euripidean / Apollodorean (Admetus’s postponed death; Alcestis dies in his place; Heracles wrestles Thanatos or brings her back from the grave)
• Cycnus Son of Ares: Combat on the Way to the Hesperides (or at Itonus)
  Heroes — Heracles · Hesiodic *Shield* / Apollodorean (Cycnus waylays pilgrims; Heracles kills him; Ares engages and is wounded or parted by Zeus)
• Building of the Argo and Gathering of the Argonauts
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (Athena’s design; Argus the builder; catalogue of heroes)
• Admetus’s Wedding: Artemis Neglected and the Serpents in the Chamber
  Heroes — Thessalian / Admetus–Alcestis prelude · Apollodorean (wedding omission; Artemis’s wrath; Apollo’s remedy)
• Peleus, Acastus, and Astydameia
  Heroes — Aeacid / Thessalian (Peleus before Thetis) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (false accusation; abandonment among centaurs)
• Thetis and the Invulnerability of Achilles (Styx / Fire Variants)
  Heroes — Aeacid / Achilles childhood · Classical handbook and scholiastic variants (Styx; fire-and-ambrosia); Homeric Achilles is *not* invulnerable
• Achilles’ Childhood: Chiron, Scyros, Deidamia, and the Birth of Pyrrhus
  Heroes — Aeacid / Achilles youth (pre-Troy) · Apollodorean / cyclic / Statius-labeled Roman enrichment for Scyros household
• Aeson and Pelias: Usurpation of Iolcus
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus prelude) · Apollodorean / Pindaric Aeolid (Cretheus; Tyro; Pelias seizes the throne)
• Hellen: Eponym of the Hellenes
  Heroes — Aeolid / Hellenic eponym · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* tradition
• Shade of Achilles in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Achilles / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Achilles’ shade speaks with Odysseus
• Peleus and Telamon Kill Phocus
  Heroes — Aeacid house / exile prelude to Phthia and Salamis · Apollodorean / Pausanian — fraternal murder; purification and exile
• Phoenix Exiled by Amyntor
  Heroes / Trojan periphery — Phoenix’s autobiography · Homeric — quarrel with Amyntor over a concubine; curse; flight to Peleus
• Andromache (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Neoptolemus · Attic tragic — Euripides *Andromache*
• Death of Neoptolemus at Delphi
  Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Aeacid end · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Andromache* messenger); Delphic cult
• Hermione and Orestes: Marriage after Neoptolemus
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath; Spartan–Mycenaean succession · Euripidean (*Andromache*; *Orestes*) / Apollodorean / Odyssean glance
• Pirithous’s Wedding and the Centauromachy
  Local and lesser — Lapith / Thessalian; Theseus cycle cross-link · Homeric allusion + Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled full battle; Attic vase and temple sculpture tradition
• Caeneus: Gender Change and Invulnerable Lapith
  Local and lesser — Lapith / Centauromachy · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* / Ovid-labeled (Caenis; Poseidon; pine trees)

Characters in shared stories

• Acastus
• Achilles
• Admetus
• Aeacus
• Aeson
• Ajax
• Alcestis
• Alcimede
• Amphitrite
• Amyntor
• Andromache
• Ares
• Argus
• Aristaeus
• Artemis
• Asclepius
• Astyanax
• Astydameia
• Atalanta
• Briseis
• Brontes
• Caeneus
• Castor and Polydeuces
• Centaurs
• Centaurus
• Chiron
• Chrysothemis
• Concubine of Amyntor
• Coronis
• Cretheus
• Crow
• Cycnus
• Cyrene
• Daphne
• Deidamia
• Deioneus
• Delphians
• Demophon
• Deucalion
• Dorus, Xuthus, Aeolus