Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (13)

• Patroclus in Achilles’ Armor; Death at Hector’s Hands
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 16
• Iris Summons the Winds for Patroclus’s Pyre (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / funeral of Patroclus / divine messengers · Homeric (*Iliad* 23)
• Andromache’s Lament for Hector (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 22) — widow’s speech from the wall
• Patroclus Arms in Achilles’ Armor (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 16 · Homeric — arming and Achilles’ charge isolated from Patroclus’s death
• Glaucus Rebukes Hector over Sarpedon’s Arms (*Iliad* 17)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / fight for Patroclus’s body · Homeric — Lycian ally shames Hector for abandoning Sarpedon’s gear
• Ajax Defends the Ships (*Iliad* 15–16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / teichomachy aftermath / ships in peril · Homeric — Telamonian Ajax as last bulwark before Patroclus enters
• Achilles Drags Hector’s Body (*Iliad* 22–24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / aftermath of Hector’s death · Homeric — piercing of the ankles; dragging behind the chariot; daily outrage at the tomb
• The Ghost of Patroclus Appears to Achilles (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / funeral of Patroclus · Homeric — shade demands burial; shared bones; vanishes like smoke
• Patroclus Borrows Achilles’ Armor (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia prelude · Homeric — Nestor’s plan; Achilles’ limits; Patroclus arms in the Myrmidon panoply
• Patroclus’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Patroclus turns the Trojans; kills Sarpedon; presses to the wall
• Aeacus, Aegina, and the Myrmidons (Peleus’s People)
  Local and lesser — Aeginetan / Phthian · Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled ant metamorphosis; Hesiodic and Pindaric Aeacus notices
• Rhoeo and Anius: Delian Myths
  Local and lesser — Delian / Apolline local myth · Apollodorean / Diodoran / cyclic notices (Rhoeo; Anius; Oenotropae)
• Calchas and Mopsus: The Contest and Death of Calchas
  Local and lesser — mantic rivalry / post-Trojan · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Melampodia* / Strabonian

Places appearing with them

• Achaean council
• Achaean ships
• Achaean shore
• Achilles’ shelter by the ships
• Assembly
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Cilicia
• Gates of Hades
• Hector’s house
• House of Zeus
• House of the Winds
• Ionia
• Lycia
• Molossia
• Myrmidon camp
• Ocean’s stream
• Oenone
• Ortygia
• Patroclus’s tomb
• Plain before Troy
• Plain of Troy
• Salamis
• Sea chest voyage
• Ships
• Shore
• Shore by the ships
• Thebe under Placus
• Thracian sea
• Tower of Troy
• Trojan shore
• Underworld
• Walls of Troy

Themes

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