Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Return to Ithaca: Disguise and Eumaeus (*Odyssey* 13–16)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 13–16 (compressed)
• Bow Contest and Slaughter of the Suitors (*Odyssey* 21–22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 21–22 (+ Apollodorean)
• Slaughter of the Suitors (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — mnesterophonia isolated from the bow contest
• Melanthius the Goatherd (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — disloyal goatherd isolated from Eumaeus and the slaughter
• Philoetius the Loyal Cowherd (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ithacan household / mnesterophonia · Homeric — cattle-herd who stands with Odysseus against the suitors
• Melantho: The Disloyal Maid (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ithacan household / suitors · Homeric — Melantho insults the beggar Odysseus; sister of Melanthius
• Punishment of Melanthius the Goatherd (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / household justice · Homeric — Melanthius fetches arms for the suitors; is tortured and mutilated

Places appearing with them

• Eumaeus’s steading
• Ithaca
• Ithaca palace road
• Mycenae
• Odysseus’s palace
• Palace hall on Ithaca
• Road to Ithaca’s town
• Scheria
• Storeroom

Themes

• Binding
• Contest
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Theft
• War