Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (22)

• Shade of Agamemnon Warns Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Atreid / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Agamemnon’s shade in the underworld consultation
• Cassandra and Apollo: Prophecy and the Broken Compact
  Heroes / Trojan cycle periphery — Cassandra · Tragic / handbook — Apollo’s gift of prophecy; spit or refusal; disbelief curse
• Birth, Exposure, and Recognition of Paris
  Trojan · Apollodorean / tragic-cyclic (Hecuba’s dream; Idaean exposure; athletic recognition)
• Abduction (Elopement) of Helen: Paris at Sparta
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Aphrodite’s gift; departure with treasure; Homeric regret vs. willing-flight noted)
• Ransom of Hector: Priam in Achilles’ Tent
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 24
• The Wooden Horse: Building and Entry
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric *Odyssey* reminiscence)
• Sinon and Laocoön: Persuasion and Omen before the Sack
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Roman Vergilian transmission labeled for Laocoön)
• Sack of Troy: Priam, Astyanax, Cassandra and Ajax Locrian
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades*; Homeric allusions)
• Division of Spoils; Sacrifice of Polyxena
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Euripides *Hecuba* / *Troades*
• Departure Disasters Begin: Athena’s Wrath and Locrian Ajax
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* / *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades* prologue)
• Agamemnon’s Return and Murder (Aeschylus / Nostoi)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*
• Trojan Women (Euripides)
  Trojan — Sack aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Troades* (*Trojan Women*)
• Death of Locrian Ajax on the Gyrae Rocks (Detailed)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric (*Odyssey* 4) / Apollodorean / Cycle *Nostoi* (+ Euripides *Troades* wrath frame)
• Cassandra: Apollo’s Gift and Curse of Unbelieved Prophecy
  Trojan — Priamid / Apolline prophecy · Aeschylean / Apollodorean / cyclic (gift of prophecy; curse of disbelief)
• Capture of Helenus and the Prophecies of Troy’s Fall
  Trojan — Little Iliad / late-war oracles · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Helenus seized; conditions of capture named)
• Hecuba Allotted to Odysseus
  Trojan — Sack / division of spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Division of the Trojan Women: Brief Allotments
  Trojan — Sack / spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean / cyclic
• Cassandra’s Prophecies Ignored at Troy
  Trojan — Priamid prophecy / sack prelude · Cyclic / tragic / Apollodorean (warnings unheeded in the city)
• Cassandra’s Prophetic Ravings at Mycenae (Aeschylus)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Agamemnon’s return · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*
• Hermes Escorts Priam into Achilles’ Camp (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 24) — entry through sentries and gates; departure before dawn
• Hecuba’s Lament over Hector’s Bier (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / burial of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 24) — formal goos when the body is brought home
• Othryoneus’s Betrothal Boast and Death
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Idomeneus’s aristeia · Homeric — Cabesus ally seeks Cassandra; Idomeneus kills him

Places appearing with them

• Achaean ships
• Achaean wall and gates
• Achilles’ courtyard and shelter
• Achilles’ hut in the Achaean camp
• Achilles’ tomb
• Altar of Zeus Herkeios
• Amyclae
• Apollo’s sphere
• Assembly
• Athena’s shrine in Troy
• Athena’s temple
• Athena’s temple at Troy
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Cabesus
• Cynossema
• Edge of Ocean
• Field before Troy
• Gates and ditch of the camp
• Gates of Troy
• Greek camp
• Gyrae rocks
• Ilium
• Interior of Troy
• Interior of the house
• Ithaca
• Lycia
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Pangaeum
• Mycenae
• Ortygia
• Pergamus
• Porch where Priam sleeps
• Priam’s hall
• Priam’s palace
• Pyre and barrow of Hector
• River Scamander
• Road back to Troy
• Scyros
• Sea between Greece and Asia
• Sea off Attica
• Sea off Troy
• Ships
• Ships for Argos, Phthia/Epirus, Ithaca, Sparta
• Shore
• Shore before burning Troy
• Sidon
• Temple
• Temple of Athena
• Temple of Athena in Troy
• Tenedos
• The deep
• Theban battlefield
• Tomb of Achilles in the Troad
• Tomb of Patroclus
• Trojan shore
• Troy
• Underworld
• Walls of Troy
• Wooden Horse at the gates

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• Underworld
• War