Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (21)

• Murder of Apsyrtus: Ambush in the Adriatic (Apollonius)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (adult Apsyrtus pursues; lured to Artemis’s shrine; Jason kills him abroad)
• Murder of Apsyrtus: Child Slain and Dismembered (Apollodorus)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (young Apsyrtus taken from Colchis; killed and scattered to delay Aeetes)
• Circe’s Purification; Libya and Triton’s Gift (Return Voyage)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian return (Circe cleanses kin-blood; later Libyan shoals and Triton)
• Elpenor’s Shade and Burial Plea (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / companions of Odysseus · Homeric — first shade at the trench; plea for burial rites
• Odysseus Meets Anticleia (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / family of Odysseus · Homeric — mother and son at the blood-trench
• Shade of Tiresias Advises Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / Theban seer in Hades · Homeric — Tiresias at the blood-trench
• Circe on Aeaea (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 10.135–574 (+ Apollodorean)
• Nekyia: Odysseus in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 11 (+ Apollodorean summary)
• Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis; Cattle of Helios (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 12 (+ Apollodorean)
• Telegony: Telegonus Kills Odysseus (Epic Cycle End)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle close / post-*Odyssey* · Epic Cycle — *Telegony* (Proclus summary; Eugammon of Cyrene attrib.)
• The Sirens (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Sirens episode isolated from *Odyssey* 12
• Scylla and Charybdis (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — strait passage isolated from *Odyssey* 12
• Cattle of Helios on Thrinacia (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Thrinacia sacrilege and shipwreck isolated from *Odyssey* 12
• Circe, Hermes, and the Herb Moly (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — moly antidote and restoration isolated from the full Circe stay
• Circe Transforms Odysseus’s Crew into Swine (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Aeaea · Homeric — drugs, wand, and pig-pens; Eurylochus escapes
• Elpenor Falls from Circe’s Roof (*Odyssey* 10–11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Aeaea / Nekyia prelude · Homeric — drunken fall; unburied shade; burial plea and fulfillment
• Tiresias’s Prophecy of the Inland Oar (*Odyssey* 11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nekyia / nostos beyond Ithaca · Homeric — Poseidon’s wrath; Helios’s cattle warning; oar mistaken for winnowing-fan; gentle death from the sea
• Scylla and Charybdis: Origin and Metamorphosis
  Local and lesser — Sicilian strait aetiology (separate from *Odyssey* 12 encounter) · Ovidian Roman transmission of Circe–Glaucus–Scylla metamorphosis; Greek notices of Charybdis as daughter of Poseidon and Gaia
• Tiresias: Snakes, Gender Change, Blindness, and Prophecy
  Local and lesser — Theban seer / gender and sight · Apollodorean (double sex; Hera–Zeus quarrel; blindness; prophetic gift)
• Manto, Daughter of Tiresias
  Local and lesser — Theban / prophetic lineage; colonial aetiology · Apollodorean / tragic / Pausanian
• Mopsus the Seer (Claros and Cilicia)
  Local and lesser — prophetic founders / colonial · Apollodorean / Strabonian / Argonautic glance

Places appearing with them

• Adriatic
• Bathing spring
• Cilicia
• Circe’s house
• Circe’s land
• Circe’s sties
• Colchis
• Countryside
• Cyllene
• Edge of Ocean
• Ethiopia
• Fig tree on Charybdis’s rock
• Forest path
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Gates of Hades
• Hades
• Inland place far from sea
• Inland place of men without sea-knowledge
• Inland place of the winnowing-fan
• Ionia
• Island shrine of Artemis
• Ithaca
• Lake Tritonis
• Mantua
• Mouth of the Ister (Danube)
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Ocean’s edge
• Ogygia
• Open sea after Thrinacia
• Path from shore to hall
• Path inland from the shore
• Pool
• Pytho
• Rock of Scylla
• Sea (or coastal road) of the escape
• Sea path from Tritonis
• Shore of Aeaea
• Shore of the grey sea
• Sirens’ island
• Strait of Messina
• Strait of Scylla and Charybdis
• The deep
• Thesprotia
• Thrinacia
• Whirlpool of Charybdis

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War