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[IID]
Cadmos and the foundation of Thebes
Semele and Dionysos; the death of Actaion
Successors and usurpers at Thebes
Amphion, Niobe, and their children
Laios and Oedipus
[IID]
7. The Theban Wars
Eteocles and the exile of Polyneices to Argos
Prelude in Argos: Amphiaraos and Eriphyle
The advance against Thebes and stationing of the champions
Excursus: the earlier history of Teiresias
The Theban victory and its aftermath
The Epigoni and the Second Theban War
The later history of Alcmaion
[IID]
8. Arcadian mythology (the Pelasgids)
Lycaon and his sons
Callisto and the birth of Areas; early Arcadian genealogies
Atalante
9. Laconian and Trojan mythology (the Atlantids)
The Pleiades
The birth and early exploits of Hermes
Early Lacedaimonian genealogies; the story of Asclepios
Tyndareus, Leda, and their children
Helen and her suitors
The fate of the Dioscuri
[IIIA]
Early Trojan mythology
Priam, Hecuba, and their children
[IIIB]
10. The Asopids
Aiacos in Aegina
The exile of Peleus and Telamon
Peleus in Phthia, Calydon, and Iolcos
The marriage of Peleus and Thetis, and early life of Achilles
[IV]
11. The kings of Athens
Cecrops and his descendants; the story of Adonis
Three early kings: Cranaos, Amphictyon, and Erichthonios
Pandion I and his children; Icarios and Erigone; Tereus, Procne, and Philomele
Procris and Cephalos; Oreithuia and her children
Eumolpos, and the war with Eleusis; the exile of Pandion II
Aigeus and the conception of Theseus
The war with Minos and the origin of the tribute to the Minotaur
The labours of Theseus, and his arrival at Athens
Epitome
Theseus, Ariadne, and the killing of the Minotaur
Excursus: Daidalos and Icaros, and the death of Minos
Theseus and the Amazons; Phaedra and Hippolytos
Theseus and Peirithoos
[V]
12. The Pelopids
Tantalos
Pelops and Hippodameia
Atreus and Thyestes
Agamemnon and Menelaos
[VI]
13. The Trojan War
The judgement of Paris and abduction of Helen
Agamemnon assembles the Greek army
The attack on Mysia; the Greeks assemble for a second time
The Greeks call in at Tenedos
The landing at Troy, and the first nine years of the war
The wrath of Achilles (a summary of the Iliad)
Penthesileia the Amazon; Memnon and the death of Achilles; the suicide of Aias
Philoctetes and the death of Paris; conditions for the fall of Troy
The wooden horse
The sack of Troy
14. The. Returns
Menelaos and Agamemnon quarrel; Calchas and Mopsos
Agamemnon sails with the main fleet; the storm at Tenos, and Nauplios the wrecker
The fate of Neoptolemos; various wanderings and returns
The later history of the Pelopids
The return of Odysseus (a summary of the Odyssey)
The later history of Odysseus
GENEALOGICAL TABLES
The following tables cover the six main families, as follows:
I The Deucalionids
A The early Deucalionids
B The Aetolian line
C The sons of Aiolos and their descendants
II The Inachids
A The early Inachids in Argos and the east
B The Belid line in Argos
C The Agenorid line: the descendants of Europa in Crete
D The Agenorid line: the descendants of Cadmos in Thebes
III The Atlantids
A The Laconian royal line, and the usurpers at Thebes
B The Trojan royal line
IV The Asopids (the family of Achilles and Aias)
V The Athenian royal line
VI The Pelopids (the family of Agamemnon and Menelaos)
Most of these tables depict the mythical royal line in one of the main centres in Greece. Only one of the six families covered by the tables, namely the Athenian, conforms to the simplest possible pattern, in which a single family provides the ruling line in a single city. Generally the genealogical system is more economical, and the ruling lines in two or more cities are traced to a common ancestor and so united within the same family. Thus separate branches of the Inachid family provide the royal families of both Argos and Thebes, the two greatest centres in mythical Greece, and also of Crete. Accordingly, the family trees of the first three families, which are the largest and are divided in this way between different centres, have been subdivided in the tables.
Although the adventures of various members of these families take them to many different parts of the Mediterranean world, it is natural that the main centres of rule associated with the great families should be located in the heartland of Greece. There are two major exceptions, namely, Crete, as would be expected since it was a very ancient centre of civilization which had co
The mainland of Greece is divided into two by the Gulf of Corinth, which separates the Pelopo
South of the Gulf of Corinth, in the Pelopo
Of the Atlantids, two main lines are covered in the following tables, the earliest royal line in the second main centre in the Pelopo
The Asopid family tree is exceptional, as it was developed to account for the common descent of the two greatest heroes of the Trojan War, Achilles and Aias (who came from different areas) as grandsons of Aiacos (who reigned in a different area again). This was a relatively late development; in the Iliadthe pair are not related. Aiacos was the first king of Aegina, a small island in the Saronic Gulf, which lies between Attica and the Pelopo