Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (14)

• Return to Ithaca: Disguise and Eumaeus (*Odyssey* 13–16)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 13–16 (compressed)
• Bow Contest and Slaughter of the Suitors (*Odyssey* 21–22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 21–22 (+ Apollodorean)
• Argus the Dog Recognizes Odysseus (*Odyssey* 17)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Argus’s recognition and death
• Penelope’s Bow Contest (*Odyssey* 21)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — bow contest isolated from the slaughter in Book 22
• Slaughter of the Suitors (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — mnesterophonia isolated from the bow contest
• Melanthius the Goatherd (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — disloyal goatherd isolated from Eumaeus and the slaughter
• Eumaeus’s Hospitality to the Beggar Odysseus (*Odyssey* 14)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — swineherd’s hut; food, cloak, and loyal speech
• Philoetius the Loyal Cowherd (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ithacan household / mnesterophonia · Homeric — cattle-herd who stands with Odysseus against the suitors
• Antinous Hurls the Footstool at Odysseus (*Odyssey* 17)
  Trojan — Odyssey / beggar in the hall / guest-abuse · Homeric — first major outrage against the disguised king
• Ctesippus Throws the Cow’s Heel (*Odyssey* 20–22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / suitors’ outrages / mnesterophonia · Homeric — Ctesippus’s “guest-gift”; later killed by Philoetius
• Punishment of Melanthius the Goatherd (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / household justice · Homeric — Melanthius fetches arms for the suitors; is tortured and mutilated
• Athena Disguises Odysseus as a Beggar (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ithaca recognition sequence / divine metamorphosis · Homeric — withered flesh, rags, and staff; later restorations
• Odysseus’s Cretan Lies (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / false autobiographies / *pseudologia* · Homeric — Cretan persona told to Athena, Eumaeus, and Penelope
• Eumaeus’s Origin: The Phoenician Nurse and the Traders
  Trojan / Returns — *Odyssey* / swineherd’s autobiography · Homeric — princely birth on Syria; nurse’s betrayal; sale to Laertes

Places appearing with them

• Assembly
• Dung-heap before the gates
• Eumaeus’s steading
• Ithaca
• Ithaca palace road
• Mycenae
• Odysseus’s palace
• Odysseus’s palace hall
• Palace hall on Ithaca
• Phoenicia
• Road to Ithaca’s town
• Scheria
• Sea between Ithaca and Samos
• Sea voyage
• Sidon
• Steading of Eumaeus
• Storeroom
• Syria

Themes

• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Succession
• Theft
• War