Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (14)

• Bellerophon: Anteia’s False Accusation, Proetus, Iobates, and the Chimera
  Heroes — Bellerophon · Homeric / Apollodorean (Potiphar’s-wife pattern; sealed tokens; Chimera slain)
• Hector and Andromache at the Scaean Gates
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 6 (city interlude; farewell)
• Patroclus in Achilles’ Armor; Death at Hector’s Hands
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 16
• Death of Sarpedon (Iliad)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian allies · Homeric (*Iliad* 16)
• Glaucus and Diomedes: Guest-Friendship and Armor Exchange (*Iliad* 6)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian–Argive link · Homeric (*Iliad* 6)
• Catalogue of Trojan Allies (*Iliad* 2)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Trojan muster · Homeric — Priam’s allies listed after the Achaean catalogue
• Teucer Shoots from Behind Ajax’s Shield (*Iliad*)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Teucer’s archery · Homeric — bastard son of Telamon; archer paired with Ajax’s tower-shield
• Teichomachy: Fighting at the Achaean Wall (*Iliad* 12)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 12 · Homeric — Trojans assault the wall; Sarpedon and Hector breach
• Glaucus Rebukes Hector over Sarpedon’s Arms (*Iliad* 17)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / fight for Patroclus’s body · Homeric — Lycian ally shames Hector for abandoning Sarpedon’s gear
• Patroclus’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Patroclus turns the Trojans; kills Sarpedon; presses to the wall
• Hylas Abducted by the Nymphs
  Local and lesser — Mysian / Argonautic episode · Apollonian (*Argonautica*); Theocritean idyll; Apollodorean brief notice
• Polyidus and Glaucus of Crete
  Local and lesser — Cretan · Apollodorean (seer Polyidus; drowned boy; snake and herb)
• Scylla and Charybdis: Origin and Metamorphosis
  Local and lesser — Sicilian strait aetiology (separate from *Odyssey* 12 encounter) · Ovidian Roman transmission of Circe–Glaucus–Scylla metamorphosis; Greek notices of Charybdis as daughter of Poseidon and Gaia
• Glaucus of Potniae and the Man-Eating Mares
  Local and lesser — Boeotian / Corinthian Glaucus / tragic horse-horror · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Virgilian notice — mares of Potniae devour their master

Places appearing with them

• Achaean
• Achaean council
• Achaean ships
• Achaean wall and ditch
• Achaean wall and ships
• Argo
• Argos
• Assembly
• Battlements
• Corinth
• Ethiopia
• Gates of the wall
• Hector’s house
• Honey pithos
• Iolcus
• Isthmus
• Lycia
• Mycenae
• Myrmidon camp
• Mysia
• Paris and Helen’s chamber
• Pergamus
• Plain before Troy
• Plain of Troy
• Pool
• Rock of Scylla
• Rock tomb
• Scaean Gates
• Spring Pegae
• Strait of Messina
• The deep
• Thebe Hypoplacia
• Tomb chamber
• Trojan shore
• Walls of Troy
• Whirlpool of Charybdis
• Zeleia, Lycia, Thrace, Phrygia, Caria, Mysia, Paphlagonia

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• War