Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Telemachy: Athena at Ithaca; Telemachus Seeks News (*Odyssey* 1–4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 1–4 (Telemachy)
• Recognition by Penelope: The Marriage Bed (*Odyssey* 23)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 23
• Eurycleia Washes Odysseus’s Feet: The Scar (*Odyssey* 19)
  Trojan — Odyssey / recognition on Ithaca · Homeric — nurse’s recognition by the boar-scar
• Penelope’s Bed Test: Recognition of Odysseus (*Odyssey* 23)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — olive-bed token isolated from the slaughter and Laertes
• Penelope’s Dream of the Geese and the Eagle (*Odyssey* 19)
  Trojan — Odyssey / recognition on Ithaca · Homeric — dream omen; Odysseus as eagle; suitors as geese
• Odysseus’s Scar: Autolycus and the Parnassian Boar (*Odyssey* 19)
  Trojan — Odyssey / recognition digression · Homeric — flashback that explains the scar Eurycleia recognizes
• Melantho: The Disloyal Maid (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ithacan household / suitors · Homeric — Melantho insults the beggar Odysseus; sister of Melanthius
• Hanging of the Disloyal Maidservants (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / household purge · Homeric — Eurycleia counts twelve guilty maids; Telemachus hangs them

Places appearing with them

• Amyclae
• Autolycus’s house
• Bridal chamber
• House of Autolycus
• Ithaca
• Marriage chamber
• Megaron
• Megaron of Odysseus’s palace
• Messenia
• Mount Parnassus
• Mycenae
• Odysseus’s hall, Ithaca
• Ogygia

Themes

• Contest
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• War