Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Typhon Against Zeus (Apollodorus)
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Apollodorean (substantially different combat narrative from Hesiodic Typhoeus)
• Ares and Aphrodite Caught by Hephaestus
  Olympian gods · Homeric — Demodocus’s song in *Odyssey* 8
• Dionysus and Lycurgus
  Olympian gods — Dionysus · Homeric (*Iliad* 6) / Apollodorean (Edonian persecution; madness; pruning shears)
• Marriage of Hephaestus and Aphrodite
  Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Aphrodite · Homeric marital pairing (beyond the net-song) / handbook olympian household
• Bendis: Thracian Artemis in Athens
  Olympian gods / Thracian cult in Attica — Bendis · Classical Attic reception — Bendideia at Piraeus; Plato’s dramatic date
• Eighth Labor: The Mares of Diomedes
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (man-eating Thracian mares; Abderus killed; Diomedes fed to his own horses; founding of Abdera)
• Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryon (Helios’s Cup, Orthrus, Erytheia)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Erytheia/Gadira; triple-bodied Geryon; Orthrus and Eurytion; Helios’s golden cup; homeward cattle-drive with Eryx and Hera’s gadfly)
• Orpheus and Eurydice: The Descent
  Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean Greek notice (+ Plato); fuller narrative is largely Roman (Vergil/Ovid)—labeled

Characters in shared stories

• Abderus
• Aegipan
• Aglaea
• Alcinous
• Aphrodite
• Ares
• Artemis
• Athena
• Bendis
• Bistones
• Calliope
• Callirrhoe
• Chrysaor
• Delphyne
• Demodocus
• Diomedes
• Dionysus
• Dryas
• Edonians
• Eryx
• Eurydice
• Eurytion
• Gaia
• Geryon
• Grooms of the mares
• Hades
• Helios
• Hephaestus
• Heracles
• Hermes
• Ialebion and Dercynus
• Lycurgus
• Mares of Diomedes
• Menoetes
• Nurses
• Ocean
• Odysseus
• Olympian gods
• Orpheus
• Orthrus