Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
• Odysseus Meets Anticleia (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / family of Odysseus · Homeric — mother and son at the blood-trench
• Eurycleia Washes Odysseus’s Feet: The Scar (*Odyssey* 19)
  Trojan — Odyssey / recognition on Ithaca · Homeric — nurse’s recognition by the boar-scar
• Odysseus’s Scar: Autolycus and the Parnassian Boar (*Odyssey* 19)
  Trojan — Odyssey / recognition digression · Homeric — flashback that explains the scar Eurycleia recognizes

Places appearing with them

• Autolycus’s house
• Circe’s land
• Countryside
• Hades
• House of Autolycus
• Ithaca
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Parnassus
• Mycenae
• Mycenae / Argolid
• Ocean’s streams
• Odysseus’s hall, Ithaca
• Thebes

Themes

• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Theft
• Underworld
• War