Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (11)

• Birth of Aegisthus: Thyestes and Pelopia
  Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean; prelude to Agamemnon’s murder · Apollodorean / Hyginus (oracle; night rape; sword-token; recognition)
• Chrysothemis (Sophocles’ *Electra*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia (Electra’s sister) · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (foil sister)
• Clytemnestra’s Dream (Aeschylus and Sophocles)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — dream as omen before the matricide (Aeschylean and Sophoclean variants compared)
• Clytemnestra’s Dream of the Serpent (*Choephoroi*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (serpent nursed at the breast)
• Shade of Agamemnon Warns Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Atreid / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Agamemnon’s shade in the underworld consultation
• Agamemnon’s Return and Murder (Aeschylus / Nostoi)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*
• Orestes Avenges Agamemnon (*Choephoroi* / Libation Bearers)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (+ Homeric / Apollodorean revenge notice)
• Electra: Recognition and Revenge (Sophocles)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (vs. Aeschylean *Choephoroi* recognition)
• Electra (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Euripides *Electra* (vs. Sophocles 057 and Aeschylus 056)
• Nauplius’s Revenge: Justice Denied and the Corruption of the Achaean Wives
  Trojan — Nostoi prelude / aftermath of Palamedes · Apollodorean / tragic handbook (Nauplius at Troy; domestic revenge)
• Cassandra’s Prophetic Ravings at Mycenae (Aeschylus)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Agamemnon’s return · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*

Places appearing with them

• Aegisthus’s sacrificial grounds
• Agamemnon’s tomb
• Amyclae
• Argive countryside
• Assembly
• Atreus’s flocks
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Edge of Ocean
• Hearth and inner house
• Hearth of the Atreid house
• Interior of the house
• Ithaca
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Palace of the Atreidae
• Shore
• Sicyon
• Tomb of Agamemnon
• Trojan shore
• Troy
• Women’s quarters of the Argive palace

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War