Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (10)

• Chrysothemis (Sophocles’ *Electra*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia (Electra’s sister) · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (foil sister)
• Clytemnestra’s Dream (Aeschylus and Sophocles)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — dream as omen before the matricide (Aeschylean and Sophoclean variants compared)
• Agamemnon’s Return and Murder (Aeschylus / Nostoi)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*
• Orestes Avenges Agamemnon (*Choephoroi* / Libation Bearers)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (+ Homeric / Apollodorean revenge notice)
• Electra: Recognition and Revenge (Sophocles)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (vs. Aeschylean *Choephoroi* recognition)
• Orestes (Euripides): Aftermath at Argos
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Orestes* (post-matricide crisis before any final acquittal staging)
• Electra (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Euripides *Electra* (vs. Sophocles 057 and Aeschylus 056)
• Hermione and Orestes: Marriage after Neoptolemus
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath; Spartan–Mycenaean succession · Euripidean (*Andromache*; *Orestes*) / Apollodorean / Odyssean glance
• Rhoeo and Anius: Delian Myths
  Local and lesser — Delian / Apolline local myth · Apollodorean / Diodoran / cyclic notices (Rhoeo; Anius; Oenotropae)
• The Pleiades: Daughters of Atlas (and Orion’s Pursuit)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook (Eratosthenes / Hyginus)

Places appearing with them

• Aegisthus’s sacrificial grounds
• Agamemnon’s tomb
• Amyclae
• Argive countryside
• Assembly
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Hearth of the Atreid house
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Ortygia
• Palace of the Atreidae
• Rhamnus
• Sea chest voyage
• Ships
• Shore
• Thessaly
• Tomb of Agamemnon
• Underworld

Themes

• Birth
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• War