Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (18)

• Funeral of Patroclus and the Games
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 23
• The Wooden Horse: Building and Entry
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric *Odyssey* reminiscence)
• Epeius Builds the Wooden Horse
  Trojan — Sack prelude / wooden horse · Epic Cycle / Homeric reminiscence / Apollodorean (Epeius as builder; Athena’s aid)
• 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
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Boxing (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — boxing contest (Epeius vs. Euryalus)
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Casting the Iron Mass (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — weight-throw (solos); Polypoetes victorious
• Demodocus Sings of Troy: Odysseus Weeps (*Odyssey* 8)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacian court · Homeric — blind bard’s Trojan lays; tears that betray the hero
• Demodocus Sings the Wooden Horse (*Odyssey* 8)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacian court / Trojan War in song · Homeric — bard’s lay of the horse; Odysseus weeps
• 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
• Agamemnon Tests the Army (*Diapeira*, *Iliad* 2)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 2 assembly · Homeric — false dream aftermath; Agamemnon’s test; flight to the ships; Odysseus restores order
• Euryalus Insults Odysseus (*Odyssey* 8)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacian games / guest ethics · Homeric — Broadsea’s taunt; discus throw; apology gift
• Belus, Aegyptus, and Danaus: The Setup
  Local and lesser — Argive / Io’s descendants · Apollodorean genealogical setup (before the Danaid murders)
• Tiresias: Snakes, Gender Change, Blindness, and Prophecy
  Local and lesser — Theban seer / gender and sight · Apollodorean (double sex; Hera–Zeus quarrel; blindness; prophetic gift)
• Artemis at Brauron: Iphigenia and the Attic Cult
  Local and lesser — Attic cult aetiology / Artemis Brauronia · Euripidean / Pausanian — Iphigenia brings the Tauric image to Brauron (or Halai)
• The Heliadae of Rhodes
  Local and lesser — Rhodian primordial kings / Helios cult · Pindaric / Diodorean — seven sons of Helios and Rhode; fireless sacrifice; murder of Tenages
• Batrachomyomachia: Battle of Frogs and Mice
  Local and lesser — Homeric pseudepigrapha / animal parody epic · Pseudo-Homeric (Hellenistic / imperial attribution to Homer or Pigres) — frog-mouse war as Iliadic parody

Places appearing with them

• Achaean camp before Troy
• Argos
• Argos / Theban saga
• Assembly
• Assembly place
• Bathing spring
• Cyllene
• Egypt / Arabia
• Ethiopia
• Greek ships
• Hades’ gates
• Halai Araphenides
• House of Zeus
• Interior of the wooden horse
• Lesbos, Cos, Carpathos
• Marsh
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Olympia
• Palace of Alcinous on Scheria
• Scheria
• Ships
• Ships on the shore
• Shore
• Spercheius
• Stadium of the games
• Tauric land
• Temple
• Tenedos
• The deep
• Theban battlefield
• Thebe under Placus
• Thermydrae
• Troezen
• Trojan camp’s edge
• Trojan shore
• Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Contest
• Creation
• Divine Council
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• Underworld
• War