Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Agamemnon’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 11)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 · Homeric — Agamemnon’s morning rampage until wounded
• Busiris and Heracles in Egypt
  Local and lesser — Heraclean / Egyptian encounter (Labors itinerary) · Apollodorean (+ Pherecydian / Isocratean rhetorical use; vase tradition)
• Contest of Homer and Hesiod
  Local and lesser — biographical legend of the poets / Chalcidian games · Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi (imperial compilation of classical anecdotes) — King Amphidamas’s funeral games; Hesiod wins

Places appearing with them

• Altar of Zeus
• Antenorid sphere
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Helicon
• Phoenicia
• Plain before Troy
• Road of the Hesperides labor
• Trojan shore

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Contest
• Hospitality
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• War