Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• 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)
• Telemachus at Sparta: Menelaus and Helen (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — Spartan visit isolated from the Telemachy overview
• Telemachus at Pylos with Nestor (*Odyssey* 3)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — first stop of Telemachus’s voyage; Nestor’s nostos-lore
• Helen Drugs the Wine with Nepenthe (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / Sparta · Homeric — Helen’s Egyptian drug that ends grief in the mixing-bowl

Places appearing with them

• Amyclae
• Assembly
• Egypt
• Elysian plain
• Ithaca
• Messenia
• Mycenae
• Ogygia
• Road to Sparta
• Sea-shore altar of Poseidon
• Shore

Themes

• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• War