Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (17)

• Aphrodite as Daughter of Zeus and Dione
  Olympian gods · Homeric (Olympian parentage; distinct from Hesiodic foam-birth)
• Anchises and Aphrodite (Homeric Hymn V)
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Trojan ancestry · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (5) — full classical narrative
• Dione Comforts Wounded Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Dione · Homeric (*Iliad* 5) — maternal consolation on Olympus after Diomedes’ wound
• Assaracus, Capys, and Anchises: The Junior Trojan Stem
  Heroes — Trojan royal stemma / Aeneas’s paternal line · Apollodorean / Homeric — Assaracus branch parallel to Ilus–Laomedon–Priam
• Abduction (Elopement) of Helen: Paris at Sparta
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Aphrodite’s gift; departure with treasure; Homeric regret vs. willing-flight noted)
• Diomedes’ Aristeia: Wounding of Aphrodite and Ares
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 5 (with close of 4 / opening of 6)
• Achilles’ Aristeia and the Death of Hector
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 20–22
• Sinon and Laocoön: Persuasion and Omen before the Sack
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Roman Vergilian transmission labeled for Laocoön)
• Aeneas’s Escape from Troy (Greek Notices; Vergil Labeled)
  Trojan — Sack aftermath / western foundation legend · Homeric / cyclic / Apollodorean Greek notices + **Roman** Vergilian expansion labeled
• Rhesus (Play Attributed to Euripides)
  Trojan — Iliadic night / Thracian ally · Attic tragic — *Rhesus* (transmitted with Euripides; authorship disputed in antiquity and modernly)
• Creusa’s Death at Troy (Vergil-Labeled)
  Trojan — Sack / Aeneas escape (Roman transmission) · **Roman** — Vergil, *Aeneid* 2 (labeled); Greek notices of Aeneas’s escape lack this full Creusa episode
• Theft of the Palladium (Diomedes and Odysseus)
  Trojan — Little Iliad / sack prelude · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / Apollodorean (Diomedes and Odysseus steal Athena’s image)
• Ascanius (Iulus): Brief Greek Notices
  Trojan — Aeneas’s line / aftermath · Homeric / Hymnic / Apollodorean / Hellanican (Greek notices; Roman Iulus labeled)
• Achilles, Aeneas, and Poseidon’s Rescue (*Iliad* 20)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ return / Dardanian fate · Homeric (*Iliad* 20)
• Catalogue of Trojan Allies (*Iliad* 2)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Trojan muster · Homeric — Priam’s allies listed after the Achaean catalogue
• Automedon and Achilles’ Immortal Horses (*Iliad* 17)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / fight for Patroclus’s body · Homeric — Automedon’s aristeia with Xanthus and Balios after Patroclus falls
• Diomedes Wounds Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Diomedes’ aristeia · Homeric — Athena’s leave; spear to Aphrodite’s wrist; Aeneas rescued

Places appearing with them

• Achaean and Trojan lines
• Achaean ships
• Achilles’ chariot
• Alba Longa
• Amyclae
• Assembly
• Bronze jar / detention of Ares
• Burning Troy
• House of Zeus
• Ilium
• Interior of Troy
• Mount Pangaeum
• Mycenae
• Nymphs’ mountain dwellings
• Olympus
• Ortygia
• Pedasus
• Pergamus
• Plain before Troy
• Plain of Troy
• River Scamander
• Sea between Greece and Asia
• Sea off Troy
• Ships
• Shore
• Sidon
• Temple
• Temple quarters
• Thracian bivouac
• Trojan battlefield
• Trojan shore
• Troy
• Twice around the city
• Underworld
• Walls and Scaean Gates of Troy
• Zeleia, Lycia, Thrace, Phrygia, Caria, Mysia, Paphlagonia

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• Underworld
• War