Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Bow Contest and Slaughter of the Suitors (*Odyssey* 21–22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 21–22 (+ Apollodorean)
• Irus the Beggar: Boxing in the Palace (*Odyssey* 18)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Odysseus (disguised) vs. Irus
• Amphinomus: Warning Spurned, Death by Telemachus (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / suitors / mnesterophonia · Homeric — the “good” suitor Athena still dooms
• The Suitors Ambush Telemachus (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / suitors’ plot · Homeric — Antinous’s ship lies in wait at Asteris; Athena saves the return

Places appearing with them

• Asteris
• Dulichium
• Eumaeus’s steading
• Ithaca
• Mycenae
• Odysseus’s palace
• Sea between Ithaca and Samos
• Storeroom
• Threshold and courtyard of Odysseus’s palace

Themes

• Binding
• Contest
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• War