Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (21)

• Poseidon and Tyro: The Enipeus Deception; Birth of Pelias and Neleus
  Olympian gods / Aeolid heroic prelude · Homeric (*Odyssey* 11) / Apollodorean
• Heracles against Neleus and the Pylians
  Heroes — Heracles / side campaigns; Nestor’s background · Apollodorean / Homeric recollection (Neleus; eleven sons; Nestor spared)
• Quarrel at the Ships: Chryses, Plague, and the Taking of Briseis
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* Book 1 (Achilles’ wrath begins)
• Zeus’s Promise to Thetis and the False Dream
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 1–2 (divine plot; Agamemnon’s dream; army tested)
• Ajax and Hector: The Day’s Duel and Truce for Burial
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 7
• The Embassy to Achilles
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 9 (with Book 8 as immediate cause)
• The Doloneia: Night Raid of Odysseus and Diomedes
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 10 (Doloneia)
• Trojans at the Ships; Patroclus Pleads for Achilles’ Armor
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 11–16 (compressed arc to Achilles’ concession)
• Memnon Son of Dawn: Achilles Kills Memnon
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
• Nestor’s Safe Return to Pylos
  Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 3 / Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus)
• Telemachy: Athena at Ithaca; Telemachus Seeks News (*Odyssey* 1–4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 1–4 (Telemachy)
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: The Chariot Race (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — chariot race as chief contest
• Nestor Rescues the Wounded Machaon (*Iliad* 11)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 hinge · Homeric — Paris wounds Machaon; Nestor conveys him; Achilles sends Patroclus
• The Achaeans Build the Wall before the Ships (*Iliad* 7)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 7 aftermath · Homeric — night after Ajax–Hector duel; wall and ditch built without hecatombs
• Telemachus at Pylos with Nestor (*Odyssey* 3)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — first stop of Telemachus’s voyage; Nestor’s nostos-lore
• Death of Antilochus at Memnon’s Hands (*Aethiopis*)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* · Cyclic / Apollodorean — Memnon kills Antilochus; Achilles avenges him
• Nestor’s Reminiscence of the Pylian Wars (*Iliad*)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Nestor digressions / pre-Trojan saga · Homeric — Nestor’s youth against Ereuthalion, the Eleians, and the Arcadians
• Patroclus Borrows Achilles’ Armor (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia prelude · Homeric — Nestor’s plan; Achilles’ limits; Patroclus arms in the Myrmidon panoply
• Agamemnon Tests the Army (*Diapeira*, *Iliad* 2)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 2 assembly · Homeric — false dream aftermath; Agamemnon’s test; flight to the ships; Odysseus restores order
• Pirithous’s Wedding and the Centauromachy
  Local and lesser — Lapith / Thessalian; Theseus cycle cross-link · Homeric allusion + Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled full battle; Attic vase and temple sculpture tradition
• Machaon and Podalirius at Troy
  Local and lesser — Asclepiads / Trojan War physicians · Homeric / cyclic / Apollodorean

Places appearing with them

• Achaean camp
• Achaean camp and ships
• Achaean camp at Troy
• Achaean camp by the ships
• Achaean wall
• Achaean wall and ditch
• Achilles’ hut
• Achilles’ hut among the Myrmidon ships
• Achilles’ ship-stern
• Altar of Hera
• Amyclae
• Argos
• Assembly
• Assembly place
• Chryse
• Ethiopia
• Gates of the Achaean camp
• Gerenia
• Iolcus
• Ithaca
• Messenia
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Pangaeum
• Mount Pelion
• Nestor’s chariot and hut
• Nestor’s hut
• Ogygia
• Olympus
• Peloponnesian
• Plain before Troy
• Plain by the Scamander
• Pyres on the plain
• Road to Sparta
• Sea by the ships
• Sea-shore altar of Poseidon
• Seashore by the ships
• Ships
• Ships on the shore
• Shore
• Space between the camps
• Thessaly
• Tricca
• Trojan
• Trojan shore
• Troy
• Troy’s plain
• Turn-post
• Underworld
• Wall and ditch
• Walls of Troy
• Wedding hall

Themes

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