Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (4)

• Achilles’ Early Exploits in the Troad (Cypria)
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean summary level (raids before the *Iliad*)
• Hector and Andromache at the Scaean Gates
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 6 (city interlude; farewell)
• Andromache’s Lament for Hector (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 22) — widow’s speech from the wall
• Cypselus, Labda, and the Chest (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Corinthian foundation / Bacchiad oracle · Herodotean — lame Labda; oracles; baby hidden in a *kypsele*; tyrant of Corinth

Places appearing with them

• Achaean camp
• Achaean ships
• Chest
• City
• Hector’s house
• Lesbos
• Lycia
• Lyrnessus
• Paris and Helen’s chamber
• Pedasus
• Pergamus
• Petra
• Pytho
• Rock tomb
• Scaean Gates
• Tenedos
• Thebe Hypoplacia
• Thebe under Placus
• Tower of Troy
• Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Exile
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• War