Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis (Deer Substitute)
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Iphigenia at Aulis*); Artemis substitutes a deer
• Telephus in Mysia: The First Landing Mistake
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Teuthrania taken for Troy; wound and later healing)
• Quarrel at the Ships: Chryses, Plague, and the Taking of Briseis
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* Book 1 (Achilles’ wrath begins)
• 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)
• Poseidon Rallies the Greeks (*Iliad* 13)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 13 · Homeric — Poseidon’s covert aid against Zeus’s will
• Poseidon as Calchas Rallies the Ajaxes (*Iliad* 13)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 13 / divine aid to the Achaeans · Homeric — Poseidon’s disguised encouragement at the ships
• Calchas and Mopsus: The Contest and Death of Calchas
  Local and lesser — mantic rivalry / post-Trojan · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Melampodia* / Strabonian
• Mopsus the Seer (Claros and Cilicia)
  Local and lesser — prophetic founders / colonial · Apollodorean / Strabonian / Argonautic glance

Places appearing with them

• Achaean camp
• Achaean council
• Achaean ships and camp
• Achilles’ hut
• Aegae
• Chryse
• Cilicia
• Ionia
• Land of the Taurians
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Pytho
• Seashore by the ships
• Ships
• The deep
• Trojan plain at the ships
• Trojan shore
• Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• War