Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (11)

• Hector and Andromache at the Scaean Gates
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 6 (city interlude; farewell)
• Sack of Troy: Priam, Astyanax, Cassandra and Ajax Locrian
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades*; Homeric allusions)
• Andromache (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Neoptolemus · Attic tragic — Euripides *Andromache*
• Trojan Women (Euripides)
  Trojan — Sack aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Troades* (*Trojan Women*)
• Rhesus (Play Attributed to Euripides)
  Trojan — Iliadic night / Thracian ally · Attic tragic — *Rhesus* (transmitted with Euripides; authorship disputed in antiquity and modernly)
• Andromache Allotted to Neoptolemus after the Sack
  Trojan — Sack / division of spoils · Epic Cycle / Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Division of the Trojan Women: Brief Allotments
  Trojan — Sack / spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean / cyclic
• Astyanax: Death Variants (Neoptolemus vs. Odysseus)
  Trojan — Sack / Hector’s heir · Cyclic / Apollodorean / tragic — killer variants isolated
• Andromache Learns Hector Is Dead (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 22 end) — recognition from the wall
• Andromache’s Lament for Hector (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 22) — widow’s speech from the wall
• Hector’s Prayer for Astyanax (*Iliad* 6)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Hector–Andromache farewell · Homeric — baby fright at the helmet; prayer to Zeus

Places appearing with them

• Achaean council
• Achaean ships
• Achilles’ tomb
• Altar of Zeus Herkeios
• Amyclae
• Assembly
• Athena’s temple
• Delphi, Lesche of the Cnidians
• Hector’s house
• Hector’s house in Troy
• Molossia
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Pangaeum
• Paris and Helen’s chamber
• Pergamus
• Plain before Troy
• Plain toward the ships
• Scaean Gates
• Ships
• Ships for Argos, Phthia/Epirus, Ithaca, Sparta
• Shore
• Shore before burning Troy
• Temple of Athena in Troy
• Tenedos
• Thebe Hypoplacia
• Thebe under Placus
• Thessaly
• Thracian bivouac
• Tower of Troy
• Troy
• Troy in sack
• Wall of Troy
• Walls of Troy

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• War