Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• 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
• Icarius and Erigone: Dionysus’s Gift of Wine
  Local and lesser — Attic Dionysiac aetiology · Apollodorean / Eratosthenic / Attic handbook (Icarius; first wine; Erigone; Maera; catasterism)
• Maera the Dog: Discovery, Death, and Catasterism
  Local and lesser — Attic Dionysiac / astral aetiology · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean Icarius frame)
• The Aiora: Swing Festival and Expiation for Erigone
  Local and lesser — Attic ritual aetiology · Attic / Eratosthenic / lexicographic (Aiora founded after hanging-plague)
• Boötes: Icarius among the Stars
  Local and lesser — catasterism / Attic Dionysiac aftermath · Classical astral — Icarius as Boötes (with Maera as dog-star)

Places appearing with them

• Attic countryside
• Hecale
• Megaron of Odysseus’s palace
• Mycenae
• Northern sky
• Tree of Erigone
• Trees
• Troezen
• Underworld
• Well or hidden grave

Themes

• Binding
• Contest
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• War