Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Achilles’ Early Exploits in the Troad (Cypria)
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean summary level (raids before the *Iliad*)
• Quarrel at the Ships: Chryses, Plague, and the Taking of Briseis
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* Book 1 (Achilles’ wrath begins)
• The Embassy to Achilles
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 9 (with Book 8 as immediate cause)
• Reconciliation; Achilles Returns to Battle
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 19
• Briseis Returned: Her Lament for Patroclus (*Iliad* 19)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / reconciliation · Homeric — restitution of Briseis; her goos over Patroclus
• Odysseus’s Speech in the Embassy (*Iliad* 9)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Odysseus’s opening offer and appeal
• Ajax’s Speech in the Embassy (*Iliad* 9)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Ajax’s blunt closing appeal
• Pirithous’s Wedding and the Centauromachy
  Local and lesser — Lapith / Thessalian; Theseus cycle cross-link · Homeric allusion + Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled full battle; Attic vase and temple sculpture tradition

Places appearing with them

• Achaean assembly place by the ships
• Achaean camp
• Achaean wall
• Achaean wall and ships
• Achilles’ hut
• Achilles’ hut among the Myrmidon ships
• Argos
• Chryse
• City
• Hut of Achilles
• Hut of Achilles by the Myrmidon ships
• Lesbos
• Lycia
• Lyrnessos
• Lyrnessus
• Molossia
• Mount Pelion
• Myrmidon ships
• Pedasus
• Plain by the Scamander
• Plain toward Troy
• Seashore by the ships
• Seven Messenian cities
• Shore
• Tenedos
• Thebe Hypoplacia
• Thessaly
• Troy
• Wedding hall

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Succession
• Theft
• War