Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (19)

• Marriage of Pylades and Electra
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath (also Trojan nostoi close) · Euripidean / Apollodorean handbook
• Orestes’ Purification at Delphi
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath (also Trojan nostoi) · Aeschylean / Apollodorean handbook (Delphic cleansing)
• Orestes’ Wanderings and Alternate Purifications (beyond *Eumenides*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Euripidean notices (multi-site cleansing)
• Chrysothemis (Sophocles’ *Electra*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia (Electra’s sister) · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (foil sister)
• Clytemnestra’s Dream (Aeschylus and Sophocles)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — dream as omen before the matricide (Aeschylean and Sophoclean variants compared)
• Clytemnestra’s Dream of the Serpent (*Choephoroi*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (serpent nursed at the breast)
• Shade of Agamemnon Warns Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Atreid / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Agamemnon’s shade in the underworld consultation
• Telephus in Mysia: The First Landing Mistake
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Teuthrania taken for Troy; wound and later healing)
• Agamemnon’s Return and Murder (Aeschylus / Nostoi)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*
• Orestes Avenges Agamemnon (*Choephoroi* / Libation Bearers)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (+ Homeric / Apollodorean revenge notice)
• Electra: Recognition and Revenge (Sophocles)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (vs. Aeschylean *Choephoroi* recognition)
• The Furies and the Trial at Athens (*Eumenides*)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Eumenides*
• Iphigenia among the Taurians (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Iphigenia in Tauris*
• Orestes (Euripides): Aftermath at Argos
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Orestes* (post-matricide crisis before any final acquittal staging)
• Electra (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Euripides *Electra* (vs. Sophocles 057 and Aeschylus 056)
• Andromache (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Neoptolemus · Attic tragic — Euripides *Andromache*
• Death of Neoptolemus at Delphi
  Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Aeacid end · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Andromache* messenger); Delphic cult
• Hermione and Orestes: Marriage after Neoptolemus
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath; Spartan–Mycenaean succession · Euripidean (*Andromache*; *Orestes*) / Apollodorean / Odyssean glance
• Iphigenia at Aulis (Euripides) — Completed Kill / Ambiguous End
  Trojan — Aulis sacrifice (tragic version) · Attic tragic — Euripides *Iphigenia at Aulis* (as distinct from *Cypria* deer-rescue in 007)

Places appearing with them

• Aegisthus’s sacrificial grounds
• Agamemnon’s tomb
• Altar of Apollo
• Amyclae
• Areopagus
• Argive countryside
• Brauron
• Edge of Ocean
• Halae Araphenides
• Hearth and inner house
• Hearth of the Atreid house
• Ithaca
• Land of the Taurians
• Molossia
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Olympia
• Palace of the Atreidae
• Panopeus
• Pytho
• Rhamnus
• Shore
• The deep
• Thessaly
• Tomb of Agamemnon
• Troezen
• Trojan shore
• Troy
• Women’s quarters of the Argive palace

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• Theft
• Underworld
• War