Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (16)

• Thetis’s Prophecy: Zeus and Poseidon Renounce Her
  Olympian gods — Zeus / Poseidon / Thetis; Achillean prelude · Pindaric / Apollodorean — son destined to be mightier than his father
• Peleus, Acastus, and Astydameia
  Heroes — Aeacid / Thessalian (Peleus before Thetis) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (false accusation; abandonment among centaurs)
• Thetis and the Invulnerability of Achilles (Styx / Fire Variants)
  Heroes — Aeacid / Achilles childhood · Classical handbook and scholiastic variants (Styx; fire-and-ambrosia); Homeric Achilles is *not* invulnerable
• Achilles’ Childhood: Chiron, Scyros, Deidamia, and the Birth of Pyrrhus
  Heroes — Aeacid / Achilles youth (pre-Troy) · Apollodorean / cyclic / Statius-labeled Roman enrichment for Scyros household
• Shade of Achilles in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Achilles / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Achilles’ shade speaks with Odysseus
• Peleus and Telamon Kill Phocus
  Heroes — Aeacid house / exile prelude to Phthia and Salamis · Apollodorean / Pausanian — fraternal murder; purification and exile
• Tiphys Dies; Ancaeus Takes the Helm
  Heroes — Argonautica / voyage logistics · Apollonian — death of the first helmsman; Ancaeus succeeds
• Phoenix Exiled by Amyntor
  Heroes / Trojan periphery — Phoenix’s autobiography · Homeric — quarrel with Amyntor over a concubine; curse; flight to Peleus
• Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: Eris and the Apple of Discord
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Pindaric wedding background)
• Ransom of Hector: Priam in Achilles’ Tent
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 24
• Andromache (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Neoptolemus · Attic tragic — Euripides *Andromache*
• Priam Clasps Achilles’ Knees (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric — tent recognition, shared weeping, and return of the body
• Phoenix’s Speech in the Embassy (*Iliad* 9)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Phoenix’s Meleager paradeigma within Book 9
• The Ghost of Patroclus Appears to Achilles (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / funeral of Patroclus · Homeric — shade demands burial; shared bones; vanishes like smoke
• Peleus and Thetis: Courtship and Wrestling
  Local and lesser — Thessalian / Achillean prelude (before Trojan wedding) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (shape-shifting Nereid wrestled on the shore)
• Aeacus, Aegina, and the Myrmidons (Peleus’s People)
  Local and lesser — Aeginetan / Phthian · Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled ant metamorphosis; Hesiodic and Pindaric Aeacus notices

Places appearing with them

• Achilles’ hut in the Achaean camp
• Achilles’ shelter in the Achaean camp
• Amyclae
• Argo
• Argos
• Blood-trench at Ocean’s edge
• Dolopia
• Gates and ditch of the camp
• Gates of Hades
• Hades
• Hellas
• Hut of Achilles by the Myrmidon ships
• Iolcus
• Malea
• Mariandynian coast
• Molossia
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Pelion
• Oenone
• Olympus
• Pergamus
• Porch of the shelter
• Salamis
• Scyros
• Shore
• Shore by the ships
• Symplegades
• The deep
• Thessaly
• Tomb of Patroclus
• Troy
• Underworld
• Wagon

Themes

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