Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (22)

• Ganymede Abducted by Zeus
  Olympian gods / Trojan royal house · Homeric / Homeric Hymn / Apollodorean (eagle or gods; cupbearer; immortality)
• Poseidon and Apollo Build the Walls of Troy (Homeric)
  Olympian gods — Poseidon & Apollo / Trojan aetiology · Homeric — gods’ year of servitude to Laomedon; unpaid wage
• Hesione Exposed at Troy: Heracles, Laomedon, and the Broken Bargain
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (attached to the homeward voyage after the Amazon labor; Apollo–Poseidon wages unpaid; sea-monster; Hesione; mares of Ganymede promised and refused; threat of later war)
• Sack of Troy: Laomedon Killed and Hesione Given to Telamon
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (post-Omphale expedition; Telamon and Oicles; walls scaled; Laomedon and sons slain; Priam spared; Hesione awarded to Telamon)
• Ilus Founds Ilium; the Palladium Falls from Heaven
  Heroes — Trojan royal stemma / foundation of Troy’s city · Apollodorean — cow-omen foundation; Zeus’s Palladium; Ilus blinded and healed
• Assaracus, Capys, and Anchises: The Junior Trojan Stem
  Heroes — Trojan royal stemma / Aeneas’s paternal line · Apollodorean / Homeric — Assaracus branch parallel to Ilus–Laomedon–Priam
• Aesacus and Hesperia (Ovid-Labeled)
  Heroes — Trojan royal house / bird metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Trojan prince’s dive and seabird change; brief Greek genealogical notices of Aesacus
• Judgment of Paris: Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
• Birth, Exposure, and Recognition of Paris
  Trojan · Apollodorean / tragic-cyclic (Hecuba’s dream; Idaean exposure; athletic recognition)
• Abduction (Elopement) of Helen: Paris at Sparta
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Aphrodite’s gift; departure with treasure; Homeric regret vs. willing-flight noted)
• Embassy for Helen: Early Diplomacy Fails
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
• Achilles’ Early Exploits in the Troad (Cypria)
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean summary level (raids before the *Iliad*)
• Troilus Slain by Achilles
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ tragic and archaic pictorial tradition)
• Paris and Menelaus: Duel and the Broken Truce
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 3–4
• Ajax and Hector: The Day’s Duel and Truce for Burial
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 7
• Achilles’ Aristeia and the Death of Hector
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 20–22
• Ransom of Hector: Priam in Achilles’ Tent
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 24
• Penthesilea the Amazon; Achilles and Thersites
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ later classical Thersites episode)
• Paris Wounds Diomedes (*Iliad* 11)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 · Homeric — Paris’s arrow ends Diomedes’ fighting day
• Poseidon Challenges Apollo: Theomachy over Troy’s Walls (*Iliad* 21)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Poseidon vs. Apollo (verbal challenge; Apollo declines)
• Eos and Tithonus
  Local and lesser — Dawn / Trojan royal house · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (+ Homeric *Iliad* / *Odyssey* notices; Apollodorean genealogy)
• Birth of Teucer: Hesione and Telamon
  Local and lesser — Salaminian / Trojan prelude (Aeacid line) · Apollodorean (Hesione awarded to Telamon; Teucer as bastard half-brother of Ajax)

Places appearing with them

• Achaean camp
• Achaean lines
• Achaean ships
• Achilles’ hut in the Achaean camp
• Amyclae
• Antenor’s house
• Asia
• Assembly
• Chamber with shining doors
• City
• Dardania
• Gates and ditch of the camp
• Ilium
• Islands of the Blessed
• Lesbos
• Lycia
• Lydia
• Lyrnessus
• Mycenae
• Olympus
• Ortygia
• Paris’s bedroom in Troy
• Pedasus
• Pergamus
• Plain before Troy
• Plain between the armies
• Plain of Troy
• Pyres on the plain
• River Scamander
• Rocks by the Trojan sea
• Salamis
• Sea and plain of Troy
• Sea between Greece and Asia
• Sea-cliff
• Ships
• Ships of Heracles
• Shore
• Shrine
• Sidon
• Spring
• Temple of Apollo Thymbraeus
• Tenedos
• The deep
• Thebe Hypoplacia
• Tomb of Ilus
• Tomb of Patroclus
• Troy
• Twice around the city
• Underworld
• Wall of Troy
• Walls and Scaean Gates of Troy
• Walls of Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• War