Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (6)

• Shade of Agamemnon Warns Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Atreid / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Agamemnon’s shade in the underworld consultation
• Elpenor’s Shade and Burial Plea (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / companions of Odysseus · Homeric — first shade at the trench; plea for burial rites
• Odysseus Meets Anticleia (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / family of Odysseus · Homeric — mother and son at the blood-trench
• Oath of Tyndareus and the Gathering of the Greeks
  Trojan · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* strand (+ *Cypria* muster)
• Odysseus’s Feigned Madness and Palamedes
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (recruitment ruse; Palamedes’s test)
• Telemachy: Athena at Ithaca; Telemachus Seeks News (*Odyssey* 1–4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 1–4 (Telemachy)

Places appearing with them

• Amyclae
• Circe’s land
• Countryside
• Edge of Ocean
• Greece at large
• Hades
• Ithaca
• Messenia
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Ogygia
• Shore of the grey sea
• Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Exile
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War