Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (24)

• Hermes as Psychopomp: Leading the Suitors’ Shades
  Olympian gods · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24
• Birth of Aegisthus: Thyestes and Pelopia
  Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean; prelude to Agamemnon’s murder · Apollodorean / Hyginus (oracle; night rape; sword-token; recognition)
• Orestes’ Purification at Delphi
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath (also Trojan nostoi) · Aeschylean / Apollodorean handbook (Delphic cleansing)
• 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
• Oath of Tyndareus and the Gathering of the Greeks
  Trojan · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* strand (+ *Cypria* muster)
• Sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis (Deer Substitute)
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Iphigenia at Aulis*); Artemis substitutes a deer
• Division of Spoils; Sacrifice of Polyxena
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Euripides *Hecuba* / *Troades*
• Agamemnon’s Return and Murder (Aeschylus / Nostoi)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*
• Aeneas’s Escape from Troy (Greek Notices; Vergil Labeled)
  Trojan — Sack aftermath / western foundation legend · Homeric / cyclic / Apollodorean Greek notices + **Roman** Vergilian expansion labeled
• Nekyia: Odysseus in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 11 (+ Apollodorean summary)
• 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)
• The Furies and the Trial at Athens (*Eumenides*)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Eumenides*
• Iphigenia among the Taurians (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Iphigenia in Tauris*
• Electra (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Euripides *Electra* (vs. Sophocles 057 and Aeschylus 056)
• Hecuba: Polymestor and Polydorus (Euripides)
  Trojan — Sack aftermath / early nostos · Attic tragic — Euripides *Hecuba* (Polymestor–Polydorus plot; Polyxena cross-ref 038)
• Death of Palamedes at Troy
  Trojan — Cypria / early war · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ tragic and Dictyan elaborations labeled where late)
• Achilles and Helen Meet (Cypria)
  Trojan — Cypria interlude · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus)
• 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)
• Iphigenia at Aulis (Euripides) — Completed Kill / Ambiguous End
  Trojan — Aulis sacrifice (tragic version) · Attic tragic — Euripides *Iphigenia at Aulis* (as distinct from *Cypria* deer-rescue in 007)
• Cassandra’s Prophetic Ravings at Mycenae (Aeschylus)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Agamemnon’s return · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*

Places appearing with them

• Achaean camp on the Thracian
• Achilles’ tomb
• Aegisthus’s sacrificial grounds
• Agamemnon’s tomb
• Amyclae
• Areopagus
• Argive countryside
• Assembly
• Atreus’s flocks
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Brauron
• Edge of Ocean
• Gates of the Sun
• Greece at large
• Halae Araphenides
• Hearth and inner house
• Hearth of the Atreid house
• Hecuba’s tent
• Inland place of the winnowing-fan
• Interior of the house
• Ithaca
• Land of Dreams
• Land of the Taurians
• Meadow of asphodel
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Pangaeum
• Mycenae
• Ocean’s edge
• Ocean’s stream
• Olympia
• Palace of the Atreidae
• Pytho
• Rhamnus
• Shore
• Sicyon
• The deep
• Thracian Chersonese
• Thrinacia
• Tomb of Achilles in the Troad
• Tomb of Agamemnon
• Trojan camp
• Trojan shore
• Troy
• Underworld
• White Rock
• Women’s quarters of the Argive palace

Themes

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