Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Telephus: Auge, Birth, and the Mysian Kingship
  Heroes — Heraclean offspring / Mysian; Trojan prelude · Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Auge* / *Telephus* notices; Hesiodic *Catalogue*)
• Odysseus’s Feigned Madness and Palamedes
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (recruitment ruse; Palamedes’s test)
• Death of Palamedes at Troy
  Trojan — Cypria / early war · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ tragic and Dictyan elaborations labeled where late)
• Nostoi: Diomedes in Aetolia and Italy
  Trojan cycle — Returns (*Nostoi*) · Epic Cycle / Apollodorean / local Italian Greek notices (Daunia; Islands of Diomedes)
• Nauplius’s False Beacons: The Wreck at Caphereus (Nostoi)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Euboean disaster · Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* / Apollodorean (+ tragic notices)
• Nauplius’s Revenge: Justice Denied and the Corruption of the Achaean Wives
  Trojan — Nostoi prelude / aftermath of Palamedes · Apollodorean / tragic handbook (Nauplius at Troy; domestic revenge)
• Amymone and Poseidon: The Lernaean Spring
  Local and lesser — Argive / Danaid prelude · Apollodorean / Aeschylean satyr-play tradition (Amymone)

Places appearing with them

• Argos
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Daunia / Apulia
• Euboean Hollows
• Islands of Diomedes
• Ithaca
• Lerna
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Pleuron
• Pytho
• Rock struck by the trident
• Shore
• Trojan camp
• Trojan shore

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• War