Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Nestor’s Reminiscence of the Pylian Wars (*Iliad*)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Nestor digressions / pre-Trojan saga · Homeric — Nestor’s youth against Ereuthalion, the Eleians, and the Arcadians
• Sosipolis at Olympia (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Eleian child-hero / Olympia cult · Pausanian — miraculous child becomes serpent; averts Arcadian invasion

Places appearing with them

• Assembly
• Elean–Arcadian battlefield
• Inner shrine
• Messenia
• Mount Helicon
• Sanctuary by Cronus’s hill at Olympia

Themes

• Sacrifice
• Theft
• War