Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Paris and Menelaus: Duel and the Broken Truce
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 3–4
• Fetching Philoctetes: Bow of Heracles Returned to the War
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Attic tragic — Sophocles *Philoctetes*
• Eurypylus of Mysia at Troy: Slain by Neoptolemus
  Trojan — Little Iliad / Posthomeric endgame · Cyclic (*Little Iliad*) / Apollodorean / Posthomeric (Quintus); Pausanian for Machaon link
• Nestor Rescues the Wounded Machaon (*Iliad* 11)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 hinge · Homeric — Paris wounds Machaon; Nestor conveys him; Achilles sends Patroclus
• Hygieia: Birth and Cult (Brief)
  Local and lesser — Asclepiad / healing gods · Classical cult / Apollodorean Asclepiad family / Pausanian
• Machaon and Podalirius at Troy
  Local and lesser — Asclepiads / Trojan War physicians · Homeric / cyclic / Apollodorean
• Death of Machaon (Eurypylus)
  Local and lesser — Asclepiads / Trojan endgame · Cyclic / Posthomeric / Pausanian

Places appearing with them

• Achaean camp at Troy
• Achaean lines
• Achilles’ ship-stern
• Amyclae
• Assembly
• Assembly place
• Broader Greek Asclepieia
• Cave on Lemnos
• Epidaurus
• Lycia
• Mysia
• Nestor’s chariot and hut
• Olympus
• Paris’s bedroom in Troy
• Peloponnesian
• Plain between the armies
• Rock tomb
• Scyros
• Shore
• Tricca
• Troezen
• Trojan shore
• Troy’s plain
• Walls of Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War