Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Shade of Achilles in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Achilles / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Achilles’ shade speaks with Odysseus
• Penthesilea the Amazon; Achilles and Thersites
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ later classical Thersites episode)
• Memnon Son of Dawn: Achilles Kills Memnon
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
• Eos and the Immortality of Memnon (*Aethiopis*)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* aftermath · Cyclic — Eos obtains immortality for Memnon from Zeus after Achilles kills him
• Death of Antilochus at Memnon’s Hands (*Aethiopis*)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* · Cyclic / Apollodorean — Memnon kills Antilochus; Achilles avenges him
• Psychostasia: Zeus Weighs Achilles and Memnon
  Trojan — Aethiopis / Aeschylean tragedy / Memnon cycle · Aeschylean *Psychostasia* (lost) + cyclic *Aethiopis* notices — Zeus scales the fates of Achilles and Memnon
• The Memnonides: Birds from Memnon’s Pyre
  Trojan — Memnon aftermath / bird metamorphosis · Ovid-labeled Roman — cinders become fighting birds; annual memorial
• Eos and Tithonus
  Local and lesser — Dawn / Trojan royal house · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (+ Homeric *Iliad* / *Odyssey* notices; Apollodorean genealogy)

Places appearing with them

• Assembly
• Blood-trench at Ocean’s edge
• Chamber with shining doors
• Eos’s eastern realm
• Ethiopia
• House of Zeus
• Islands of the Blessed
• Memnon’s pyre
• Shore
• Thessaly
• Troad battlefield
• Troy
• Underworld

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Underworld
• War