Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (33)

• Shade of Achilles in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Achilles / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Achilles’ shade speaks with Odysseus
• Quarrel at the Ships: Chryses, Plague, and the Taking of Briseis
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* Book 1 (Achilles’ wrath begins)
• The Embassy to Achilles
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 9 (with Book 8 as immediate cause)
• Trojans at the Ships; Patroclus Pleads for Achilles’ Armor
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 11–16 (compressed arc to Achilles’ concession)
• Patroclus in Achilles’ Armor; Death at Hector’s Hands
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 16
• Fight over Patroclus’s Body; Thetis and the New Armor
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 17–18
• Reconciliation; Achilles Returns to Battle
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 19
• Funeral of Patroclus and the Games
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 23
• Ransom of Hector: Priam in Achilles’ Tent
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 24
• 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)
• Death of Sarpedon (Iliad)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian allies · Homeric (*Iliad* 16)
• Hypnos and Thanatos Carry Sarpedon’s Body (Iliad)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian allies / divine escort · Homeric (*Iliad* 16) — Sleep and Death as funeral conveyers
• Lycaon and Achilles (Iliad 21)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ river aristeia · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
• Thetis and the Nereids Lament with Achilles (*Iliad* 18)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patroclus aftermath / Nereid mourning · Homeric (*Iliad* 18)
• Iris Summons the Winds for Patroclus’s Pyre (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / funeral of Patroclus / divine messengers · Homeric (*Iliad* 23)
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: The Chariot Race (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — chariot race as chief contest
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Boxing (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — boxing contest (Epeius vs. Euryalus)
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Wrestling (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — wrestling draw (Ajax Telamonian and Odysseus)
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Foot-Race (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — foot-race (Odysseus wins by Athena’s aid)
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Archery (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — archery (Meriones over Teucer)
• Patroclus Arms in Achilles’ Armor (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 16 · Homeric — arming and Achilles’ charge isolated from Patroclus’s death
• Priam Clasps Achilles’ Knees (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric — tent recognition, shared weeping, and return of the body
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Armed Combat (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — Ajax Telamonian vs. Diomedes in full armor
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: The Javelin (Agamemnon Honored) (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — javelin prize awarded to Agamemnon without a cast
• Xanthus and Balius: Achilles’ Talking Horses (*Iliad* 19)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ return to battle · Homeric — immortal horses prophesy Achilles’ death
• Briseis Returned: Her Lament for Patroclus (*Iliad* 19)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / reconciliation · Homeric — restitution of Briseis; her goos over Patroclus
• Odysseus’s Speech in the Embassy (*Iliad* 9)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Odysseus’s opening offer and appeal
• Hector Fires the Achaean Ships (*Iliad* 15–16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ships crisis · Homeric — fire at Protesilaus’s hull; climax of Zeus’s promise to Thetis
• Euphorbus Wounds Patroclus (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patroclus’s death sequence · Homeric — second blow after Apollo; prelude to Hector’s killing thrust
• Nestor Rescues the Wounded Machaon (*Iliad* 11)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 hinge · Homeric — Paris wounds Machaon; Nestor conveys him; Achilles sends Patroclus
• Automedon and Achilles’ Immortal Horses (*Iliad* 17)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / fight for Patroclus’s body · Homeric — Automedon’s aristeia with Xanthus and Balios after Patroclus falls
• Death of Antilochus at Memnon’s Hands (*Aethiopis*)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* · Cyclic / Apollodorean — Memnon kills Antilochus; Achilles avenges him

Places appearing with them

• Achaean
• Achaean assembly place by the ships
• Achaean camp
• Achaean council
• Achaean ditch
• Achaean ships
• Achaean shore
• Achaean wall
• Achaean wall and ditch
• Achaean wall and ships
• Achilles’ chariot
• Achilles’ hut
• Achilles’ hut among the Myrmidon ships
• Achilles’ hut in the Achaean camp
• Achilles’ shelter by the ships
• Achilles’ shelter in the Achaean camp
• Achilles’ ship-stern
• Amyclae
• Argos
• Argos / Theban saga
• Assembly
• Battlefield over Patroclus
• Before the walls of Troy
• Blood-trench at Ocean’s edge
• Burial mound and stele
• Chryse
• Ethiopia
• Gates and ditch of the camp
• Gates of the Achaean camp
• Hades’ gates
• House of the Winds
• Hut of Achilles
• Hut of Achilles by the Myrmidon ships
• Imbros
• Lycia
• Lyrnessos
• Messenia
• Molossia
• Myrmidon camp
• Nestor’s chariot and hut
• Nestor’s hut
• Ocean’s stream
• Pergamus
• Plain before Troy
• Plain by the Scamander
• Plain of Troy
• Plain toward Troy
• Porch of the shelter
• Protesilaus’s ship
• River
• River Scamander
• Sea-depths
• Seashore by the ships
• Seven Messenian cities
• Ships
• Shore
• Spercheius
• Stadium of the games
• Thessaly
• Thracian sea
• Throng of battle
• Tomb of Patroclus
• Trojan camp on the plain
• Trojan shore
• Troy
• Turn-post
• Underworld
• Wagon
• Walls of Troy

Themes

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