Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (35)

• Aphrodite as Daughter of Zeus and Dione
  Olympian gods · Homeric (Olympian parentage; distinct from Hesiodic foam-birth)
• Dionysus and Lycurgus
  Olympian gods — Dionysus · Homeric (*Iliad* 6) / Apollodorean (Edonian persecution; madness; pruning shears)
• Dione Comforts Wounded Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Dione · Homeric (*Iliad* 5) — maternal consolation on Olympus after Diomedes’ wound
• Eighth Labor: The Mares of Diomedes
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (man-eating Thracian mares; Abderus killed; Diomedes fed to his own horses; founding of Abdera)
• The Epigoni: The Next Generation’s War on Thebes
  Theban · Apollodorean / epic cycle (*Epigoni* tradition)
• Achilles on Scyros: Odysseus’s Discovery
  Heroes — Aeacid / Trojan muster prelude · Apollodorean / cyclic (*Cypria*) / tragic and handbook tradition (+ Statius Roman labeled for stage business)
• Tydeus and Melanippus: Brains, Athena, and Denied Immortality
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Apollodorean / cyclic / scholiastic
• Diomedes after Thebes: Epigonus and Argive King
  Heroes — Theban / Epigoni / Argive · Apollodorean / Homeric — Epigonus who becomes Trojan-war Argive leader
• Abderus and the Founding of Abdera
  Heroes — Heracles / eighth labor aftermath / Thracian foundation · Apollodorean — Abderus killed by the mares; Heracles founds Abdera over his tomb
• Sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis (Deer Substitute)
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Iphigenia at Aulis*); Artemis substitutes a deer
• Diomedes’ Aristeia: Wounding of Aphrodite and Ares
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 5 (with close of 4 / opening of 6)
• Hector and Andromache at the Scaean Gates
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 6 (city interlude; farewell)
• The Embassy to Achilles
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 9 (with Book 8 as immediate cause)
• The Doloneia: Night Raid of Odysseus and Diomedes
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 10 (Doloneia)
• Funeral of Patroclus and the Games
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 23
• Penthesilea the Amazon; Achilles and Thersites
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ later classical Thersites episode)
• Fetching Philoctetes: Bow of Heracles Returned to the War
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Attic tragic — Sophocles *Philoctetes*
• Nestor’s Safe Return to Pylos
  Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 3 / Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus)
• Death of Palamedes at Troy
  Trojan — Cypria / early war · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ tragic and Dictyan elaborations labeled where late)
• Nostoi: Diomedes in Aetolia and Italy
  Trojan cycle — Returns (*Nostoi*) · Epic Cycle / Apollodorean / local Italian Greek notices (Daunia; Islands of Diomedes)
• Rhesus (Play Attributed to Euripides)
  Trojan — Iliadic night / Thracian ally · Attic tragic — *Rhesus* (transmitted with Euripides; authorship disputed in antiquity and modernly)
• 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)
• Theft of the Palladium (Diomedes and Odysseus)
  Trojan — Little Iliad / sack prelude · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / Apollodorean (Diomedes and Odysseus steal Athena’s image)
• Heroes Inside the Wooden Horse (Catalogue)
  Trojan — Sack prelude / wooden horse · Epic Cycle / Homeric reminiscence / Apollodorean; Vergilian list labeled Roman
• Glaucus and Diomedes: Guest-Friendship and Armor Exchange (*Iliad* 6)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian–Argive link · Homeric (*Iliad* 6)
• Paris Wounds Diomedes (*Iliad* 11)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 · Homeric — Paris’s arrow ends Diomedes’ fighting day
• Athena Tips Diomedes to Wound Ares (*Iliad* 5)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 5 · Homeric — Athena as charioteer and guide against Ares
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: The Chariot Race (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — chariot race as chief contest
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Boxing (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — boxing contest (Epeius vs. Euryalus)
• Dolon Captured and Slain (*Iliad* 10)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Doloneia · Homeric — Dolon’s capture, confession, and death isolated from Rhesus
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Armed Combat (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — Ajax Telamonian vs. Diomedes in full armor
• Rhesus and the Thracian Horses (*Iliad* 10)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Doloneia · Homeric — Rhesus slain in his sleep; white horses taken
• Diomedes Wounds Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Diomedes’ aristeia · Homeric — Athena’s leave; spear to Aphrodite’s wrist; Aeneas rescued
• Rhesus Slain in the Dolonia (*Iliad* 10)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Night raid · Homeric — Odysseus and Diomedes kill the Thracian king and take his horses
• Stentor of the Bronze Voice
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / divine disguise on the battlefield · Homeric — Hera (or Athena) takes Stentor’s form; voice of fifty men

Places appearing with them

• Abdera
• Achaean and Trojan lines
• Achaean camp
• Achaean camp by the ships
• Achaean council
• Achaean lines
• Achaean ships
• Achaean wall
• Achilles’ hut among the Myrmidon ships
• Amyclae
• Argos
• Argos / Theban saga
• Assembly
• Athena’s shrine in Troy
• Aulis
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Bronze jar / detention of Ares
• Cap of Hades
• Cave on Lemnos
• Daunia / Apulia
• Greek camp
• Greek ships
• Hades’ gates
• Hector’s house
• House of Zeus
• Illyrian
• Interior of the wooden horse
• Islands of Diomedes
• Land of the Taurians
• Lycia
• Messenia
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Olympus
• Mount Pangaeum
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Nysa
• Olympus
• Opus
• Paris and Helen’s chamber
• Pergamus
• Plain before Troy
• Plain by the Scamander
• Pleuron
• Pytho
• Scaean Gates
• Scyros
• Sea by the ships
• Sea-shore
• Ships
• Shore
• Space between the camps
• Spercheius
• Stables of Diomedes
• Stadium of the games
• Temple
• Tenedos
• The deep
• Thebe Hypoplacia
• Thebes
• Thrace
• Thracian bivouac
• Thracian bivouac at Troy’s edge
• Tomb of Abderus
• Tomb of Ilus
• Toward the Achaean ships
• Trojan
• Trojan battlefield
• Trojan camp
• Trojan camp’s edge
• Trojan plain by night
• Trojan shore
• Troy
• Turn-post
• Underworld

Themes

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