Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Elpenor’s Shade and Burial Plea (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / companions of Odysseus · Homeric — first shade at the trench; plea for burial rites
• Nostoi: Diomedes in Aetolia and Italy
  Trojan cycle — Returns (*Nostoi*) · Epic Cycle / Apollodorean / local Italian Greek notices (Daunia; Islands of Diomedes)

Places appearing with them

• Circe’s land
• Daunia / Apulia
• Edge of Ocean
• Islands of Diomedes
• Ithaca
• Mycenae
• Pleuron
• Shore of the grey sea

Themes

• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Underworld
• War