Greek Mythology — Chronicle
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Undated
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But Earth, grieved at the destruction of her children, who had been cast into Tartarus, persuaded the Titans to attack their father and gave Cronus an adamantine sickle. And they, all but Ocean, attacked him, and Cronus cut off his father's genitals and threw them into the sea;
Apollodorus, Library 1.1 · 📍 [[the cave]]
Rhea Cronus Zeus Amalthea Adrastia Ida
So these nymphs fed the child on the milk of Amalthea; and the Curetes in arms guarded the babe in the cave, clashing their spears on their shields in order that Cronus might not hear the child's voice. But Rhea wrapped a stone in swaddling clothes and gave it to Cronus to swallow, as if it were the newborn child.
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Nereus Doris Cymothoe Spio Glauconome Nausithoe Halie Erato Sao Thetis Eulimene Galatea Calypso Psamathe Dynamene Limnoria
To Nereus and Doris were born the Nereids, whose names are Cymothoe, Spio, Glauconome, Nausithoe, Halie, Erato, Sao, Amphitrite, Eunice, Thetis, Eulimene, Agave, Eudore, Doto, Pherusa, Galatea, Actaea, Pontomedusa, Hippothoe, Lysianassa, Cymo, Eione, Halimede, Plexaure, Eucrante, Proto, Calypso, Panope, Cranto, Neomeris, Hipponoe, Ianira, Polynome, Autonoe, Melite, Dione, Nesaea, Dero, Evagore, Psamathe, Eumolpe, Ione, Dynamene, Ceto, and Limnoria.
Apollodorus, Library 1.3 · 📍 Hades
And when his wife Eurydice died, bitten by a snake, he went down to Hades, being fain to bring her up, and he persuaded Pluto to send her up. The god promised to do so, if on the way Orpheus would not turn round until he should be come to his own house. But he disobeyed and turning round beheld his wife; so she turned back.
Apollodorus, Library 1.3 · 📍 [[Pieria]]
And having been torn in pieces by the Maenads he is buried in Pieria.
Apollodorus, Library 1.3 · 📍 [[Lemnos]]
Him Zeus cast out of heaven, because he came to the rescue of Hera in her bonds. For when Hercules had taken Troy and was at sea, Hera sent a storm after him; so Zeus hung her from Olympus . Hephaestus fell on Lemnos and was lamed of his legs, but Thetis saved him.
Apollodorus, Library 1.3 · 📍 [[river Triton]] · when the time came for the birth to take place
Zeus Metis Earth Prometheus Hephaestus Athena
When she was with child, Zeus, taking time by the forelock, swallowed her, because Earth said that, after giving birth to the maiden who was then in her womb, Metis would bear a son who should be the lord of heaven. From fear of that Zeus swallowed her. And when the time came for the birth to take place, Prometheus or, as others say, Hephaestus, smote the head of Zeus with an axe, and Athena, fully armed, leaped up from the top of his head at the river Triton.
Apollodorus, Library 1.4 · 📍 [[Delphi]] · Not long afterwards
Apollo learned the art of prophecy from Pan, the son of Zeus and Hybris, and came to Delphi , where Themis at that time used to deliver oracles; and when the snake Python, which guarded the oracle, would have hindered him from approaching the chasm, he killed it and took over the oracle.
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Poseidon Amphitrite Triton Rhode Helius
Poseidon wedded Amphitrite, daughter of Ocean, and there were born to him Triton and Rhode, who was married to the Sun.
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Pluto fell in love with Persephone and with the help of Zeus carried her off secretly.
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For Triptolemus, the elder of Metanira's children, she made a chariot of winged dragons, and gave him wheat, with which, wafted through the sky, he sowed the whole inhabited earth.
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But when Zeus ordered Pluto to send up the Maid, Pluto gave her a seed of a pomegranate to eat, in order that she might not tarry long with her mother. Not foreseeing the consequence, she swallowed it;
Apollodorus, Library 1.5 · 📍 Hades
Demeter Ascalaphus Acheron Gorgyra
and because Ascalaphus, son of Acheron and Gorgyra, bore witness against her, Demeter laid a heavy rock on him in Hades.
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But Persephone was compelled to remain a third of every year with Pluto and the rest of the time with the gods.
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Nevertheless Zeus inspired him with lust for Hera, and when he tore her robes and would have forced her, she called for help, and Zeus smote him with a thunderbolt, and Hercules shot him dead with an arrow.
Apollodorus, Library 1.6 · 📍 [[Cilicia]]
But Typhon twined about him and gripped him in his coils, and wresting the sickle from him severed the sinews of his hands and feet, and lifting him on his shoulders carried him through the sea to Cilicia and deposited him on arrival in the Corycian cave.
Apollodorus, Library 1.7 · 📍 [[Mount Caucasus]] · when Zeus learned of it
But when Zeus learned of it, he ordered Hephaestus to nail his body to Mount Caucasus, which is a Scythian mountain.
Apollodorus, Library 1.7 · 📍 [[Greece]] · when Zeus would destroy the men of the Bronze Age
And when Zeus would destroy the men of the Bronze Age, Deucalion by the advice of Prometheus constructed a chest, and having stored it with provisions he embarked in it with Pyrrha. But Zeus by pouring heavy rain from heaven flooded the greater part of Greece, so that all men were destroyed, except a few who fled to the high mountains in the neighborhood.
Apollodorus, Library 1.8 · 📍 Calydon
But Atalanta was the first to shoot the boar in the back with an arrow, and Amphiaraus was the next to shoot it in the eye; but Meleager killed it by a stab in the flank, and on receiving the skin gave it to Atalanta.
Apollodorus, Library 1.9 · 📍 [[Hellespont]] · when they were over the sea which lies betwixt Sigeum and the Chersonese
But when they were over the sea which lies betwixt Sigeum and the Chersonese , Helle slipped into the deep and was drowned, and the sea was called Hellespont after her.
Apollodorus, Library 1.9 · 📍 [[Boeotia]] · afterwards
Athamas Learchus Ino Melicertes
But afterwards Athamas was bereft also of the children of Ino through the wrath of Hera; for he went mad and shot Learchus with an arrow, and Ino cast herself and Melicertes into the sea.
Apollodorus, Library 1.9 · 📍 [[Pherae]] · when the day of his death came
And when the day of his death came neither his father nor his mother would die for him, but Alcestis died in his stead. But the Maiden sent her up again, or, as some say, Hercules fought with Hades and brought her up to him.
Apollodorus, Library 1.9 · 📍 [[Corinth]] · after ten years
Medea Jason Glauce Creon (king of Corinth) Mermerus Pheres
But she invoked the gods by whom Jason had sworn, and after often upbraiding him with his ingratitude she sent the bride a robe steeped in poison, which when Glauce had put on, she was consumed with fierce fire along with her father, who went to her rescue. But Mermerus and Pheres, the children whom Medea had by Jason, she killed, and having got from the Sun a car drawn by winged dragons she fled on it to Athens.
Apollodorus, Library 2.1 · 📍 [[Argos]] · Thence
Thence he came to Argos and the reigning king Gelanor surrendered the kingdom to him;
Apollodorus, Library 2.1 · 📍 [[Lerna]] · When they had got their brides by lot
and they slew their bridegrooms as they slept, all but Hypermnestra; for she saved Lynceus because he had respected her virginity:
Apollodorus, Library 2.1 · afterwards
Danaus afterwards united Hypermnestra to Lynceus;
Apollodorus, Library 2.1 · before his death
It came to pass, therefore, that he himself died by that very death.
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and married his daughter, whom Homer calls Antia, but the tragic poets call her Stheneboea.
Apollodorus, Library 2.2 · 📍 [[Tiryns]]
His in-law restored him to his own land with an army of Lycians, and he occupied Tiryns
Apollodorus, Library 2.2 · 📍 [[the whole Argive land]] · When these damsels were grown up
Proetus had daughters, Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa, by Stheneboea. When these damsels were grown up, they went mad
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Bellerophon, son of Glaucus, son of Sisyphus, having accidentally killed his brother Deliades
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Stheneboea Bellerophon Proetus
And Stheneboea fell in love with him, and sent him proposals for a meeting; and when he rejected them, she told Proetus that Bellerophon had sent her a vicious proposal.
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Proetus believed her, and gave him a letter to take to Iobates, in which it was written that he was to kill Bellerophon.
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Having read the letter, Iobates ordered him to kill the Chimera, believing that he would be destroyed by the beast
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So Bellerophon mounted his winged steed Pegasus, offspring of Medusa and Poseidon, and soaring on high shot down the Chimera from the height.
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After that contest Iobates ordered him to fight the Solymi, and when he had finished that task also, he commanded him to combat the Amazons. And when he had killed them also, he picked out the reputed bravest of the Lycians and bade them lay an ambush and slay him. But when Bellerophon had killed them also to a man
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Iobates, in admiration of his prowess, showed him the letter and begged him to stay with him
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moreover he gave him his daughter Philonoe, and dying bequeathed to him the kingdom.
Apollodorus, Library 2.4 · 📍 [[Seriphus]] · When Acrisius afterwards learned that she had got a child Perseus
When Acrisius afterwards learned that she had got a child Perseus, he would not believe that she had been seduced by Zeus, and putting his daughter with the child in a chest, he cast it into the sea. The chest was washed ashore on Seriphus, and Dictys took up the boy and reared him.
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Perseus Medusa Pegasus Chrysaor Poseidon
So Perseus stood over them as they slept, and while Athena guided his hand and he looked with averted gaze on a brazen shield, in which he beheld the image of the Gorgon, he beheaded her. When her head was cut off, there sprang from the Gorgon the winged horse Pegasus and Chrysaor, the father of Geryon; these she had by Poseidon.
Apollodorus, Library 2.4 · 📍 [[Ethiopia]] · When Perseus beheld her
When Perseus beheld her, he loved her and promised Cepheus that he would kill the monster, if he would give him the rescued damsel to wife. These terms having been sworn to, Perseus withstood and slew the monster and released Andromeda.
Apollodorus, Library 2.4 · 📍 [[Seriphus]] · Having come to Seriphus
And having come to Seriphus he found that his mother and Dictys had taken refuge at the altars on account of the violence of Polydectes; so he entered the palace, where Polydectes had gathered his friends, and with averted face he showed the Gorgon's head; and all who beheld it were turned to stone, each in the attitude which he happened to have struck. Having appointed Dictys king of Seriphus
Apollodorus, Library 2.4 · Now Teutamides, king of Larissa, was holding athletic games
He engaged in the pentathlum, but in throwing the quoit he struck Acrisius on the foot and killed him instantly. Perceiving that the oracle was fulfilled, he buried Acrisius outside the city, and being ashamed to return to Argos to claim the inheritance of him who had died by his hand, he went to Megapenthes, son of Proetus, at Tiryns and effected an exchange with him, surrendering Argos into his hands. So Megapenthes reigned over the Argives, and Perseus reigned over Tiryns
Apollodorus, Library 2.4 · 📍 [[Argos]] · However, as he was receiving the cows back
Amphitryon Electryon Sthenelus Atreus Thyestes
However, as he was receiving the cows back, one of them charged, and Amphitryon threw at her the club which he had in his hands. But the club rebounded from the cow's horns and striking Electryon's head killed him. Hence Sthenelus laid hold of this pretext to banish Amphitryon from the whole of Argos, while he himself seized the throne of Mycenae and Tiryns; and he entrusted Midea to Atreus and Thyestes, the sons of Pelops, whom he had sent for.
Apollodorus, Library 2.4 · 📍 [[Tiryns]] · after the battle with the Minyans
Heracles Megara Iphicles Hera Thespius Eurystheus
Now it came to pass that after the battle with the Minyans Hercules was driven mad through the jealousy of Hera and flung his own children, whom he had by Megara, and two children of Iphicles into the fire; wherefore he condemned himself to exile, and was purified by Thespius, and repairing to Delphi he inquired of the god where he should dwell. The Pythian priestess then first called him Hercules, for hitherto he was called Alcides. And she told him to dwell in Tiryns, serving Eurystheus for twelve years and to perform the ten labours imposed on him
Apollodorus, Library 2.5 · 📍 [[Nemea]]
And when the lion took refuge in a cave with two mouths, Hercules built up the one entrance and came in upon the beast through the other, and putting his arm round its neck held it tight till he had choked it; so laying it on his shoulders he carried it to Cleonae. And finding Molorchus on the last of the thirty days about to sacrifice the victim to him as to a dead man, he sacrificed to Saviour Zeus and brought the lion to Mycenae .
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However, Eurystheus said that this labour should not be reckoned among the ten because he had not got the better of the hydra by himself, but with the help of Iolaus.
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and he conveyed the kine and gave them to Eurystheus, who sacrificed them to Hera.
Apollodorus, Library 2.5 · 📍 [[Caucasus]]
And having crossed to the opposite mainland he shot on the Caucasus the eagle, offspring of Echidna and Typhon, that was devouring the liver of Prometheus, and he released Prometheus
Apollodorus, Library 2.5 · 📍 Hades
Hercules found him at the gates of Acheron, and, cased in his cuirass and covered by the lion's skin, he flung his arms round the head of the brute, and though the dragon in its tail bit him, he never relaxed his grip and pressure till it yielded. So he carried it off and ascended through Troezen .
Apollodorus, Library 2.7 · 📍 Pylus · After the capture of Elis
Heracles Periclymenus Neleus Nestor
After the capture of Elis he marched against Pylus, and having taken the city he slew Periclymenus, the most valiant of the sons of Neleus, who used to change his shape in battle. And he slew Neleus and his sons, except Nestor; for he was a youth and was being brought up among the Gerenians.
Apollodorus, Library 2.7 · 📍 Lacedaemon
Having killed Hippocoon and his sons and subjugated the city, Hercules restored Tyndareus and entrusted the kingdom to him.
Apollodorus, Library 2.7 · 📍 [[Mount Parthenius]]
And she brought forth her babe secretly and deposited it in the precinct of Athena. But the country being wasted by a pestilence, Aleus entered the precinct and on investigation discovered his daughter's motherhood. So he exposed the babe on Mount Parthenius, and by the providence of the gods it was preserved: for a doe that had just cast her fawn gave it suck, and shepherds took up the babe and called it Telephus.
Apollodorus, Library 2.7 · 📍 [[Oechalia]] · On his arrival at Trachis
On his arrival at Trachis he mustered an army to attack Oechalia , wishing to punish Eurytus. Being joined by Arcadians, Melians from Trachis , and Epicnemidian Locrians, he slew Eurytus and his sons and took the city. After burying those of his own side who had fallen, to wit, Hippasus, son of Ceyx, and Argius and Melas , the sons of Licymnius, he pillaged the city and led Iole captive.
Apollodorus, Library 2.7 · 📍 [[Mount Oeta]] · Thereafter
While the pyre was burning, it is said that a cloud passed under Hercules and with a peal of thunder wafted him up to heaven. Thereafter he obtained immortality, and being reconciled to Hera he married her daughter Hebe, by whom he had sons, Alexiares and Anicetus.
Apollodorus, Library 2.8 · 📍 [[Scironian cliffs]]
Eurystheus himself fled in a chariot, but was pursued and slain by Hyllus just as he was driving past the Scironian cliffs; and Hyllus cut off his head and gave it to Alcmena; and she gouged out his eyes with weaving-pins.
Apollodorus, Library 2.8 · before they came out of Peloponnese
Now before they came out of Peloponnese , Tlepolemus had killed Licymnius inadvertently; for while he was beating a servant with his stick Licymnius ran in between; so he fled with not a few, and came to Rhodes , and dwelt there.
Apollodorus, Library 2.8 · while the army was there
Aristodemus Argia Eurysthenes Procles
While the army was there, Aristodemus was killed by a thunderbolt, leaving twin sons, Eurysthenes and Procles, by Argia, daughter of Autesion.
Apollodorus, Library 2.8 · 📍 [[Naupactus]]
So guessing the purport of the oracle, they made him their guide. And having engaged the enemy they got the better of him both by land and sea, and slew Tisamenus, son of Orestes.
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Temenus Agelaus Eurypylus Callias Hyrnetho Deiphontes
Now Temenus, passing over his sons Agelaus, Eurypylus, and Callias, favoured his daughter Hyrnetho and her husband Deiphontes; hence his sons hired some fellows to murder their father. On the perpetration of the murder the army decided that the kingdom belonged to Hyrnetho and Deiphontes.
Apollodorus, Library 2.8 · 📍 [[Messene]] · When he was come to manhood
When he was come to manhood he secretly returned, killed Polyphontes, and recovered the kingdom of his fathers.
Apollodorus, Library 3.1 · 📍 Crete
Europa Minos Sarpedon Rhadamanthys
There Zeus bedded with her, and she bore Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys;
Apollodorus, Library 3.1 · 📍 [[Boeotia]]
Rhadamanthys legislated for the islanders but afterwards he fled to Boeotia and married Alcmena ;
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He constructed a wooden cow on wheels, took it, hollowed it out in the inside, sewed it up in the hide of a cow which he had skinned, and set it in the meadow in which the bull used to graze. Then he introduced Pasiphae into it; and the bull came and coupled with it, as if it were a real cow.
Apollodorus, Library 3.1 · 📍 [[Labyrinth]]
Pasiphae Asterius (Minotaur) Daedalus Minos
And she gave birth to Asterius, who was called the Minotaur. He had the face of a bull, but the rest of him was human; and Minos, in compliance with certain oracles, shut him up and guarded him in the Labyrinth.
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When Catreus inquired of the oracle how his life should end, the god said that he would die by the hand of one of his children.
Apollodorus, Library 3.2 · 📍 [[Rhodes]]
he set out from Crete with his sister Apemosyne, and put in at a place in Rhodes , and having taken possession of it he called it Cretinia.
Apollodorus, Library 3.2 · not long afterwards
he, deeming the god a mere pretext, kicked her to death.
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Aerope Plisthenes Agamemnon Menelaus
Aerope became the wife of Plisthenes, who begat Agamemnon and Menelaus;
Apollodorus, Library 3.2 · 📍 [[Rhodes]] · afterwards in the grip of old age
while they pelted him Althaemenes arrived and killed him with the cast of a javelin, not knowing him to be Catreus. Afterwards when he learned the truth, he prayed and disappeared in a chasm.
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But Glaucus, while he was yet a child, in chasing a mouse fell into a jar of honey and was drowned.
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On his disappearance Minos made a great search and consulted diviners as to how he should find him.
Apollodorus, Library 3.4 · When Telephassa died
When Telephassa died, Cadmus buried her
Apollodorus, Library 3.4 · 📍 [[the spring of Ares]]
In his indignation Cadmus killed the dragon, and by the advice of Athena sowed its teeth. When they were sown there rose from the ground armed men whom they called Sparti. These slew each other, some in a chance brawl, and some in ignorance. But Pherecydes says that when Cadmus saw armed men growing up out of the ground, he flung stones at them, and they, supposing that they were being pelted by each other, came to blows. However, five of them survived, Echion, Udaeus, Chthonius, Hyperenor, and Pelorus.
Apollodorus, Library 3.4 · 📍 [[the Cadmea]] · After his servitude
After his servitude Athena procured for him the kingdom, and Zeus gave him to wife Harmonia, daughter of Aphrodite and Ares. And all the gods quitted the sky, and feasting in the Cadmea celebrated the marriage with hymns.
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Hera Athamas Learchus Ino Melicertes
But Hera indignantly drove them mad, and Athamas hunted his elder son Learchus as a deer and killed him, and Ino threw Melicertes into a boiling cauldron, then carrying it with the dead child she sprang into the deep.
Apollodorus, Library 3.4 · 📍 [[Cithaeron]] · then afterwards
Autonoe and Aristaeus had a son Actaeon, who was bred by Chiron to be a hunter and then afterwards was devoured on Cithaeron by his own dogs.
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And the pirates went mad, and leaped into the sea, and were turned into dolphins.
Apollodorus, Library 3.5 · 📍 [[Phocis]]
Oedipus in a rage killed both Polyphontes and Laius, and arrived in Thebes .
Apollodorus, Library 3.6 · 📍 [[Thebes]]
Some say that Polynices was the first to rule, and that after a year he handed over the kingdom to Eteocles; but some say that Eteocles was the first to rule, and would not hand over the kingdom. So, being banished from Thebes , Polynices came to Argos , taking with him the necklace and the robe.
Apollodorus, Library 3.6 · when war was to be made on Thebes
Accordingly, when war was to be made on Thebes , and the measure was advocated by Adrastus and opposed by Amphiaraus, Eriphyle accepted the necklace and persuaded him to march with Adrastus.
Apollodorus, Library 3.6 · On hearing that
On hearing that, Menoeceus, son of Creon, slew himself before the gates.
Apollodorus, Library 3.6 · 📍 [[the river Ismenus]] · before Periclymenus could wound him in the back
Amphiaraus fled beside the river Ismenus, and before Periclymenus could wound him in the back, Zeus cleft the earth by throwing a thunderbolt, and Amphiaraus vanished with his chariot and his charioteer Baton, or, as some say, Elato; and Zeus made him immortal.
Apollodorus, Library 3.7 · 📍 Achelous
finally he went to the springs of Achelous, and was purified by him, and received Callirrhoe, his daughter, to wife. Moreover he colonized the land which the Achelous had formed by its silt, and he took up his abode there.
Apollodorus, Library 3.7 · 📍 [[Psophis]]
Amphoterus Acarnan Pronous Agenor Phegeus
the sons of Alcmaeon killed their father's murderers, and going to Psophis and entering the palace they slew both Phegeus and his wife.
Apollodorus, Library 3.8 · when Nyctimus succeeded to the kingdom
But when Nyctimus succeeded to the kingdom, there occurred the flood in the age of Deucalion;
Apollodorus, Library 3.8 · when Nyctimus succeeded to the kingdom
there occurred the flood in the age of Deucalion; some said that it was occasioned by the impiety of Lycaon's sons.
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Apollo Aesculapius Chiron Coronis
As she was burning, he snatched the babe from the pyre and brought it to Chiron, the centaur, by whom he was brought up and taught the arts of healing and hunting.
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But Zeus, fearing that men might acquire the healing art from him and so come to the rescue of each other, smote him with a thunderbolt.
Apollodorus, Library 3.10 · 📍 Lacedaemon · afterwards
Heracles Hippocoon Icarius Tyndareus
But afterwards, when Hercules slew Hippocoon and his sons, they returned, and Tyndareus succeeded to the kingdom.
Apollodorus, Library 3.11 · 📍 [[Messene]]
And before they knew where they were, Idas had swallowed his own share first and likewise his brother's, and with him had driven off the captured cattle to Messene. But the Dioscuri marched against Messene , and drove away that cattle and much else besides.
Apollodorus, Library 3.12 · 📍 [[Phrygia]]
And when she was come to what was called the hill of the Phrygian Ate, she lay down; there Ilus built a city and called it Ilium .
Apollodorus, Library 3.12 · 📍 Ida · When the babe was born
When the babe was born Priam gave it to a servant to take and expose on Ida; now the servant was named Agelaus. Exposed by him, the infant was nursed for five days by a bear; and, when he found it safe, he took it up, carried it away, brought it up as his own son on his farm, and named him Paris.
Apollodorus, Library 3.12 · 📍 [[Troy]] · when Troy was besieged
But she, nursing her grievance, refused to heal him. So Alexander was carried to Troy and died.
Apollodorus, Library 3.13 · 📍 [[Pelion]] · Afterwards
Chiron, therefore, having advised Peleus to seize her and hold her fast in spite of her shape-shifting, he watched his chance and carried her off, and though she turned, now into fire, now into water, and now into a beast, he did not let her go till he saw that she had resumed her former shape. And he married her on Pelion
Apollodorus, Library 3.13 · by night
Peleus watched her, and, seeing the child writhing on the fire, he cried out; and Thetis, thus prevented from accomplishing her purpose, forsook her infant son and departed to the Nereids. Peleus brought the child to Chiron, who received him and fed him on the inwards of lions and wild swine and the marrows of bears, and named him Achilles
Apollodorus, Library 3.13 · 📍 [[Troy]] · When Achilles was nine years old
Achilles Thetis Lycomedes Deidamia Neoptolemus Odysseus
When Achilles was nine years old, Calchas declared that Troy could not be taken without him; so Thetis, foreseeing that it was fated he should perish if he went to the war, disguised him in female garb and entrusted him as a maiden to Lycomedes. Bred at his court, Achilles had an intrigue with Deidamia, daughter of Lycomedes, and a son Pyrrhus was born to him, who was afterwards called Neoptolemus. But the secret of Achilles was betrayed, and Ulysses, seeking him at the court of Lycomedes, discovered him by the blast of a trumpet. And in that way Achilles went to Troy
Apollodorus, Library 3.13 · 📍 [[Opus]] · At Opus
Patroclus Clitonymus Peleus Achilles
At Opus, in a quarrel over a game of dice, Patroclus killed the boy Clitonymus, son of Amphidamas, and flying with his father he dwelt at the house of Peleus and became a minion of Achilles.
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In attempting to violate Alcippe, Halirrhothius, son of Poseidon and a nymph Euryte, was detected and killed by Ares.
Apollodorus, Library 3.14 · When Cecrops died
Cranaus was expelled by Amphictyon, who reigned in his stead
Apollodorus, Library 3.14 · 📍 [[Athens]] · when he had reigned twelve years
and when he had reigned twelve years he was expelled by Erichthonius.
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Icarius went to some shepherds, who, having tasted the beverage and quaffed it copiously without water for the pleasure of it, imagined that they were bewitched and killed him
Apollodorus, Library 3.15 · When Pandion died
When Pandion died, his sons divided their father's inheritance between them, and Erechtheus got the kingdom, and Butes got the priesthood of Athena and Poseidon Erechtheus.
Apollodorus, Library 3.15 · In the battle which took place after the slaughter
When Erechtheus inquired of the oracle how the Athenians might be victorious, the god answered that they would win the war if he would slaughter one of his daughters; and when he slaughtered his youngest, the others also slaughtered themselves; for, as some said, they had taken an oath among themselves to perish together. In the battle which took place after the slaughter, Erechtheus killed Eumolpus.
Apollodorus, Library 3.15 · But Poseidon having destroyed Erechtheus and his house
But Poseidon having destroyed Erechtheus and his house, Cecrops, the eldest of the sons of Erechtheus, succeeded to the throne.
Apollodorus, Library 3.15 · 📍 Megara · But when Minos had made himself master of Megara
Now Nisus perished through his daughter's treachery. For he had a purple hair on the middle of his head, and an oracle ran that when it was pulled out he should die; and his daughter Scylla fell in love with Minos and pulled out the hair. But when Minos had made himself master of Megara, he tied the damsel by the feet to the stern of the ship and drowned her.
Apollodorus, Library 3.15 · 📍 [[Athens]] · every year
And Minos ordered them to send seven youths and the same number of damsels without weapons to be fodder for the Minotaur.
Apollodorus, Library 3.16 · 📍 [[Athens]] · when he was grown up
when he was grown up, he pushed away the rock and took up the sandals and the sword, and hastened on foot to Athens
Apollodorus, Library 3.16 · 📍 Epidaurus · For first
For first in Epidaurus he slew Periphetes
Apollodorus, Library 3.16 · 📍 Epidaurus
That club Theseus wrested from him and continued to carry about.
Hesiod, Theogony 1-116 · 📍 [[Pieria]] · when a year was passed
Mnemosyne Zeus Cleio Euterpe Thaleia Melpomene Terpsichore Erato Polyhymnia Urania Calliope
Them in Pieria did Mnemosyne (Memory), who reigns over the hills of Eleuther, bear of union with the father, the son of Cronos, a forgetting of ills and a rest from sorrow. For nine nights did wise Zeus lie with her, entering her holy bed remote from the immortals. And when a year was passed and the seasons came round as the months waned, and many days were accomplished, she bare nine daughters
Hesiod, Theogony 1-116 · 📍 [[heaven]] · when he had overcome by might his father Cronos
And he was reigning in heaven, himself holding the lightning and glowing thunderbolt, when he had overcome by might his father Cronos; and he distributed fairly to the immortals their portions and declared their privileges.
Hesiod, Theogony 1-116 · first
And Earth first bare starry Heaven, equal to herself, to cover her on every side, and to be an ever-sure abiding-place for the blessed gods. And she brought forth long Hills, graceful haunts of the goddess-Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills. She bare also the fruitless deep with his raging swell, Pontus, without sweet union of love.
Hesiod, Theogony 1-116 · afterwards
Earth Heaven Oceanus Coeus Crius Hyperion Iapetus Theia Rhea Themis Mnemosyne Phoebe Tethys
But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.
Hesiod, Theogony 139-265
Earth Heaven Brontes Steropes Arges
nd again, she bare the Cyclopes, overbearing in spirit, Brontes, and Steropes and stubborn-hearted Arges 1606, who gave Zeus the thunder and made the thunderbolt: in all else they were like the gods, but one eye only was set in the midst of their fore-heads. And they were surnamed Cyclopes (Orb-eyed) because one orbed eye was set in their foreheads. Strength and might and craft were in their works.
Hesiod, Theogony 139-265 · 📍 Earth
Earth Heaven Cottus Briareos Gyes
And again, three other sons were born of Earth and Heaven, great and doughty beyond telling, Cottus and Briareos and Gyes, presumptuous children. From their shoulders sprang an hundred arms, not to be approached, and each had fifty heads upon his shoulders on their strong limbs, and irresistible was the stubborn strength that was in their great forms. For of all the children that were born of Earth and Heaven, these were the most terrible, and they were hated by their own father from the first. And he used to hide them all away in a secret place of Earth so soon as each was born, and would not suffer them to come up into the light: and Heaven rejoiced in his evil doing.
Hesiod, Theogony 139-265 · 📍 [[Cyprus]]
and a white foam spread around them from the immortal flesh, and in it there grew a maiden. First she drew near holy Cythera, and from there, afterwards, she came to sea-girt Cyprus, and came forth an awful and lovely goddess, and grass grew up about her beneath her shapely feet. Her gods and men call Aphrodite, and the foam-born goddess and rich-crowned Cytherea, because she grew amid the foam, and Cytherea because she reached Cythera, and Cyprogenes because she was born in billowy Cyprus, and Philommedes because sprang from the members.
Hesiod, Theogony 139-265
Thaumas Electra Iris Aello Ocypetes
And Thaumas wedded Electra the daughter of deep-flowing Ocean, and she bare him swift Iris and the long-haired Harpies, Aello (Storm-swift) and Ocypetes (Swift-flier) who on their swift wings keep pace with the blasts of the winds and the birds; for quick as time they dart along.
Hesiod, Theogony 139-265 · 📍 [[Erythea]] · on that day when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns
Heracles Geryones Orthus Eurytion
But Chrysaor was joined in love to Callirrhoe, the daughter of glorious Ocean, and begot three-headed Geryones. Him mighty Heracles slew in sea-girt Erythea by his shambling oxen on that day when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns, and had crossed the ford of Ocean and killed Orthus and Eurytion the herdsman in the dim stead out beyond glorious Ocean.
Hesiod, Theogony 295-404
Echidna Typhon Orthus Cerberus
So she conceived and brought forth fierce offspring; first she bare Orthus the hound of Geryones, and then again she bare a second, a monster not to be overcome and that may not be described, Cerberus who eats raw flesh, the brazen-voiced hound of Hades, fifty-headed, relentless and strong.
Hesiod, Theogony 295-404
Hydra of Lerna Heracles Iolaus Athena
And again she bore a third, the evil-minded Hydra of Lerna, whom the goddess, white-armed Hera nourished, being angry beyond measure with the mighty Heracles. And her Heracles, the son of Zeus, of the house of Amphitryon, together with warlike Iolaus, destroyed with the unpitying sword through the plans of Athene the spoil-driver.
Hesiod, Theogony 295-404
She was the mother of Chimaera who breathed raging fire, a creature fearful, great, swift-footed and strong, who had three heads, one of a grim-eyed lion; in her hinderpart, a dragon; and in her middle, a goat, breathing forth a fearful blast of blazing fire. Her did Pegasus and noble Bellerophon slay;
Hesiod, Theogony 295-404
and the Nemean lion, which Hera, the good wife of Zeus, brought up and made to haunt the hills of Nemea, a plague to men. There he preyed upon the tribes of her own people and had power over Tretus of Nemea and Apesas: yet the strength of stout Heracles overcame him.
Hesiod, Theogony 295-404 · 📍 Olympus · on that day
Styx Pallas Zelus Nike Cratos Bia Zeus
So deathless Styx came first to Olympus with her children through the wit of her dear father. And Zeus honoured her, and gave her very great gifts, for her he appointed to be the great oath of the gods, and her children to live with him always.
Hesiod, Theogony 453-561 · 📍 [[Mount Aegeum]] · when she was about to bear Zeus
Thither came Earth carrying him swiftly through the black night to Lyctus first, and took him in her arms and hid him in a remote cave beneath the secret places of the holy earth on thick-wooded Mount Aegeum; but to the mightily ruling son of Heaven, the earlier king of the gods, she gave a great stone wrapped in swaddling clothes.
Hesiod, Theogony 453-561
Iapetus Clymene Atlas Menoetius Prometheus Epimetheus
Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled mad Clymene, daughter of Ocean, and went up with her into one bed. And she bare him a stout-hearted son, Atlas: also she bare very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus
Hesiod, Theogony 453-561
And ready-witted Prometheus he bound with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle, and set on him a long-winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver; but by night the liver grew as much again everyway as the long-winged bird devoured in the whole day.
Hesiod, Theogony 453-561
That bird Heracles, the valiant son of shapely-ankled Alcmene, slew; and delivered the son of Iapetus from the cruel plague, and released him from his affliction
Hesiod, Theogony 453-561 · from that time
But the noble son of Iapetus outwitted him and stole the far-seen gleam of unwearying fire in a hollow fennel stalk. And Zeus who thunders on high was stung in spirit, and his dear heart was angered when he saw amongst men the far-seen ray of fire.
Hesiod, Theogony 585-687
even so Zeus who thunders on high made women to be an evil to mortal men, with a nature to do evil.
Hesiod, Theogony 585-687
but of necessity strong bands confined him, although he knew many a wile.
Hesiod, Theogony 585-687 · that day
they all, both male and female, stirred up hated battle that day, the Titan gods, and all that were born of Cronos together with those dread, mighty ones of overwhelming strength whom Zeus brought up to the light from Erebus beneath the earth.
Hesiod, Theogony 713-820
Such an oath, then, did the gods appoint the eternal and primaeval water of Styx to be: and it spouts through a rugged place.
Hesiod, Theogony 869-975 · 📍 [[river Trito]]
But he seized her with his hands and put her in his belly, for fear that she might bring forth something stronger than his thunderbolt: therefore did Zeus, who sits on high and dwells in the aether, swallow her down suddenly. But she straightway conceived Pallas Athene: and the father of men and gods gave her birth by way of his head on the banks of the river Trito.
Hesiod, Theogony 869-975
Persephone Aidoneus Demeter Zeus
she bare white-armed Persephone whom Aidoneus carried off from her mother; but wise Zeus gave her to him.
Hesiod, Theogony 869-975
But Hera without union with Zeus—for she was very angry and quarrelled with her mate—bare famous Hephaestus
Hesiod, Theogony 869-975
And Hephaestus, the famous Lame One, made Aglaea, youngest of the Graces, his buxom wife.
Hesiod, Theogony 979-1021 · 📍 [[Iolcus]] · after long toil
But when the son of Aeson had finished them, he came to Iolcus after long toil bringing the coy-eyed girl with him on his swift ship, and made her his buxom wife.
Hesiod, Theogony 979-1021
Calypso Odysseus Nausithous Nausinous
And the bright goddess Calypso was joined to Odysseus in sweet love, and bare him Nausithous and Nausinous.
Apollodorus, Epitome 1 · 📍 [[labyrinth]]
And having found the Minotaur in the last part of the labyrinth, he killed him by smiting him with his fists;
Apollodorus, Epitome 1 · 📍 [[acropolis]]
Aegeus, seeing from the acropolis the ship with a black sail, supposed that Theseus had perished; so he cast himself down and died.
Apollodorus, Epitome 1 · 📍 [[Athens]]
But Theseus succeeded to the sovereignty of Athens , and killed the sons of Pallas, fifty in number; likewise all who would oppose him were killed by him, and he got the whole government to himself.
Apollodorus, Epitome 1
Theseus Poseidon Hippolytus Phaedra
Theseus believed her and prayed to Poseidon that Hippolytus might perish. So, when Hippolytus was riding in his chariot and driving beside the sea, Poseidon sent up a bull from the surf, and the horses were frightened, the chariot dashed in pieces, and Hippolytus, entangled in the reins, was dragged to death. And when her passion was made public, Phaedra hanged herself.
Apollodorus, Epitome 1
Thence he was driven by Menestheus and went to Lycomedes, who threw him down an abyss and killed him.
Apollodorus, Epitome 2
Oenomaus Myrtilus Pelops Hippodamia
Accordingly Myrtilus, being in love with her and wishing to gratify her, did not insert the linchpins in the boxes of the wheels, and thus caused Oenomaus to lose the race and to be entangled in the reins and dragged to death; but according to some, he was killed by Pelops. And in dying he cursed Myrtilus, whose treachery he had discovered, praying that he might perish by the hand of Pelops. Pelops, therefore, got Hippodamia
Apollodorus, Epitome 2 · 📍 [[Myrtoan Sea]]
But when Pelops learned that from her, he threw Myrtilus into the sea, called after him the Myrtoan Sea, at Cape Geraestus ; and Myrtilus, as he was being thrown, uttered curses against the house of Pelops.
Apollodorus, Epitome 2
But Zeus sent Hermes to Atreus and told him to stipulate with Thyestes that Atreus should be king if the sun should go backward; and when Thyestes agreed, the sun set in the east; hence the deity having plainly attested the usurpation of Thyestes, Atreus got the kingdom and banished Thyestes.
Apollodorus, Epitome 2 · afterwards
Atreus Thyestes Aglaus Callileon Orchomenus
But afterwards being apprized of the adultery, he sent a herald to Thyestes with a proposal of accommodation; and when he had lured Thyestes by a pretence of friendship, he slaughtered the sons, Aglaus, Callileon, and Orchomenus, whom Thyestes had by a Naiad nymph, though they had sat down as suppliants on the altar of Zeus. And having cut them limb from limb and boiled them, he served them up to Thyestes without the extremities; and when Thyestes had eaten heartily of them, he showed him the extremities, and cast him out of the country.
Apollodorus, Epitome 2
Agamemnon Clytaemnestra Tantalus (son of Thyestes) Menelaus Helen
And they became the sons-in-law of Tyndareus by marrying his daughters, Agamemnon getting Clytaemnestra to wife, after he had slain her spouse Tantalus, the son of Thyestes, together with his newborn babe, while Menelaus got Helen.
Apollodorus, Epitome 3 · 📍 [[Lemnos]]
Ulysses, by the orders of Agamemnon, put him ashore on the island of Lemnos , with the bow of Hercules which he had in his possession
Apollodorus, Epitome 3 · 📍 [[Troy]]
Of the Greeks the first to land from his ship was Protesilaus, and having slain not a few of the barbarians, he fell by the hand of Hector.
Apollodorus, Epitome 4 · by day
Hector made a breach in the wall and entered and, Ajax having retreated, he set fire to the ships.
Apollodorus, Epitome 5
In battle she slew many, and amongst them Machaon, and was afterwards herself killed by Achilles
Apollodorus, Epitome 5
But afterwards he came to his senses and slew also himself.
Apollodorus, Epitome 5 · When the war had already lasted ten years
Odysseus Diomedes Philoctetes Podalirius Paris
So he went, and after being cured by Podalirius, he shot Alexander.
Apollodorus, Epitome 5 · 📍 [[Troy]] · when night fell
Neoptolemus slew Priam, who had taken refuge at the altar of Zeus of the Courtyard.
Apollodorus, Epitome 5
And the Locrian Ajax, seeing Cassandra clinging to the wooden image of Athena, violated her
Apollodorus, Epitome 6 · 📍 [[Myconos]]
But Poseidon smote the rock with his trident and split it, and Ajax fell into the sea and perished; and his body, being washed up, was buried by Thetis in Myconos.
Apollodorus, Epitome 6 · 📍 Crete · after the Trojan war
Leucus Meda Clisithyra Idomeneus
But Leucus killed her, together with her daughter Clisithyra, who had taken refuge in the temple; and having detached ten cities from Crete he made himself tyrant of them; and when after the Trojan war Idomeneus landed in Crete, Leucus drove him out.
Apollodorus, Epitome 6 · 📍 [[Molossia]]
Neoptolemus Molossus Andromache
and having vanquished the Molossians in battle he reigned as king and begat Molossus on Andromache.
Apollodorus, Epitome 6 · 📍 [[Mycenae]] · After Agamemnon had returned to Mycenae with Cassandra
Agamemnon Aegisthus Clytaemnestra Cassandra
After Agamemnon had returned to Mycenae with Cassandra, he was murdered by Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra; for she gave him a shirt without sleeves and without a neck, and while he was putting it on he was cut down, and Aegisthus reigned over Mycenae . And they killed Cassandra also.
Apollodorus, Epitome 6 · 📍 [[Mycenae]] · not long afterwards
Orestes Clytaemnestra Aegisthus
so he departed secretly to Mycenae in company with Pylades, and killed both his mother and Aegisthus.
Apollodorus, Epitome 6 · 📍 [[Athens]] · not long afterwards
And not long afterwards, being afflicted with madness and pursued by the Furies, he repaired to Athens and was tried in the Areopagus. He is variously said to have been brought to trial by the Furies, or by Tyndareus, or by Erigone, daughter of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra; and the votes at his trial being equal he was acquitted.
Apollodorus, Epitome 7 · 📍 [[land of the Cyclopes]] · From that time
But Ulysses found a club lying there, and with the help of four comrades he sharpened it, and, having heated it in the fire, he blinded him. And when Polyphemus cried to the Cyclopes round about for help, they came and asked who was hurting him, and when he said, “ Nobody,” they thought he meant that he was being hurt by nobody, and so they retired.
Apollodorus, Epitome 7 · 📍 [[island of Aeolia]]
But his comrades, thinking he carried gold in the bag, loosed it and let the winds go free, and being swept away by the blasts they were driven back again. And having come to Aeolus, Ulysses begged that he might be granted a fair wind; but Aeolus drove him from the island, saying that he could not save him when the gods opposed.
Apollodorus, Epitome 7 · 📍 [[land of the Laestrygones]]
Odysseus Laestrygones
They came to the sea, and by throwing stones they broke the vessels and ate the men. Ulysses cut the cable of his ship and put to sea; but the rest of the ships perished with their crews.
Apollodorus, Epitome 7 · 📍 [[Aeaean isle]]
And Ulysses went to Circe with moly, which he had received from Hermes, and throwing the moly among her enchantments, he drank and alone was not enchanted. Then drawing his sword, he would have killed her, but she appeased his wrath and restored his comrades.
Apollodorus, Epitome 7
Odysseus Nausicaa Alcinous Poseidon
when Ulysses implored her protection, she brought him to Alcinous, who entertained him, and after bestowing gifts on him sent him away with a convoy to his native land. But Poseidon was wroth with the Phaeacians, and he turned the ship to stone and enveloped the city with a mountain.
Apollodorus, Epitome 7 · 📍 [[palace]]
Odysseus Penelope Eumaeus Philoetius Telemachus Melanthius
When none of them could bend it, Ulysses took it and shot down the suitors, with the help of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus. He killed also Melanthius, and the handmaids that bedded with the suitors, and he made himself known to his wife and his father.