Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (125)

• Apollo and the Cretan Sailors: Founding Delphi’s Priesthood
  Olympian gods — Apollo / Delphic foundation · Homeric Hymn (Pythian) — Cretans from Knossos led to Pytho as first priests
• Alcmaeon, Eriphyle, and the Necklace of Harmonia
  Theban — Epigoni aftermath / Harmonia’s heirloom curse · Apollodorean (matricide; purification; Callirrhoe; death)
• Return of the Heraclidae (Heraclids)
  Heroes — Heracles aftermath / Dorian foundation · Apollodorean (failed attempts; Temenus; Tisamenus; lots for the Peloponnese)
• Ion and Creusa: Athenian Foundation (Euripides)
  Heroes — Attic foundation / Erechtheid line · Attic tragic — Euripides *Ion* (+ Apollodorean genealogy of Xuthus and Ion)
• Orion: Blinding, Death Variants, and the Stars
  Heroes — Orion · Apollodorean / Homeric / astral (Oenopion; scorpion; Artemis; Eos)
• Telephus: Auge, Birth, and the Mysian Kingship
  Heroes — Heraclean offspring / Mysian; Trojan prelude · Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Auge* / *Telephus* notices; Hesiodic *Catalogue*)
• Admetus’s Wedding: Artemis Neglected and the Serpents in the Chamber
  Heroes — Thessalian / Admetus–Alcestis prelude · Apollodorean (wedding omission; Artemis’s wrath; Apollo’s remedy)
• Alcestis’s Death-Day: Thanatos, Farewell, and the House of Mourning (Euripides)
  Heroes — Thessalian / Admetus–Alcestis · Attic tragic — Euripides *Alcestis* (prologue through death and mourning; before Heracles’ return of the wife)
• 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
• Zagreus: Orphic Dionysus Torn by the Titans
  Heroes / Olympian — Orphic Dionysus (labeled **Orphic**; distinct from Hesiodic–tragic Semele birth) · Orphic (Rhapsodic / mystery anthropogony); classical allusions; late summaries
• Heracles Founds the Olympic Games (Pindar)
  Heroes — Heracles / Olympia foundation · Pindaric (*Olympian* 10) / Apollodorean enrichment
• Theseus and the Synoecism of Attica
  Heroes — Theseus / Attic political myth · Plutarchan / Thucydidean political myth (+ Apollodorean kingship glance)
• Cecrops: Earth-Born Founder of Athens
  Heroes — Attic kings / foundation · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic (autochthon; first king; contest judge)
• Erechtheus, Eumolpus, and the Sacrifice of the Daughters
  Heroes — Attic kings / Eleusinian war · Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Erechtheus*) / Lycurgan oratory
• Tydeus and Melanippus: Brains, Athena, and Denied Immortality
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Apollodorean / cyclic / scholiastic
• Diomedes after Thebes: Epigonus and Argive King
  Heroes — Theban / Epigoni / Argive · Apollodorean / Homeric — Epigonus who becomes Trojan-war Argive leader
• 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)
• Tityus: Assault on Leto and Eternal Punishment
  Heroes / primordial giants — crime against Leto · Homeric / Apollodorean — Tityus in the underworld
• Death of Jason: The Timber of the Argo
  Heroes — Jason / Argonautic aftermath · Euripidean prophecy + mythographic fulfillment (Argo’s beam)
• Amphion’s Death after Niobe’s Children Fall
  Heroes — Theban / Niobid aftermath · Apollodorean — Amphion kills himself (or is killed) when Apollo and Artemis slay the Niobids
• Theseus and the Suppliants: Recovery of the Seven’s Bodies
  Heroes — Theseus / Theban aftermath / Attic tragic charter · Attic tragic — Euripides *Suppliants* (Adrastus and the mothers at Eleusis)
• Branchus and the Oracle of Didyma
  Heroes / local — Milesian–Didymaean seer line / Apolline love · Callimachean / Conon / Strabo / scholia — Branchus beloved of Apollo; Branchidae
• Cassandra and Apollo: Prophecy and the Broken Compact
  Heroes / Trojan cycle periphery — Cassandra · Tragic / handbook — Apollo’s gift of prophecy; spit or refusal; disbelief curse
• Ilus Founds Ilium; the Palladium Falls from Heaven
  Heroes — Trojan royal stemma / foundation of Troy’s city · Apollodorean — cow-omen foundation; Zeus’s Palladium; Ilus blinded and healed
• Agamedes and Trophonius: The Treasury of Hyrieus
  Heroes / Boeotian — master builders; prelude to Trophonius’s oracle · Pausanian — removable stone; thefts; decapitation; earth swallows Trophonius
• Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: Eris and the Apple of Discord
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Pindaric wedding background)
• Judgment of Paris: Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
• Birth, Exposure, and Recognition of Paris
  Trojan · Apollodorean / tragic-cyclic (Hecuba’s dream; Idaean exposure; athletic recognition)
• Abduction (Elopement) of Helen: Paris at Sparta
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Aphrodite’s gift; departure with treasure; Homeric regret vs. willing-flight noted)
• Oath of Tyndareus and the Gathering of the Greeks
  Trojan · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* strand (+ *Cypria* muster)
• Embassy for Helen: Early Diplomacy Fails
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
• Troilus Slain by Achilles
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ tragic and archaic pictorial tradition)
• Quarrel at the Ships: Chryses, Plague, and the Taking of Briseis
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* Book 1 (Achilles’ wrath begins)
• Zeus’s Promise to Thetis and the False Dream
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 1–2 (divine plot; Agamemnon’s dream; army tested)
• Paris and Menelaus: Duel and the Broken Truce
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 3–4
• Diomedes’ Aristeia: Wounding of Aphrodite and Ares
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 5 (with close of 4 / opening of 6)
• Hector and Andromache at the Scaean Gates
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 6 (city interlude; farewell)
• Ajax and Hector: The Day’s Duel and Truce for Burial
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 7
• The Doloneia: Night Raid of Odysseus and Diomedes
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 10 (Doloneia)
• 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
• Achilles’ Aristeia and the Death of Hector
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 20–22
• Ransom of Hector: Priam in Achilles’ Tent
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 24
• Death of Achilles: Paris and Apollo
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric foreshadowing)
• Contest for Achilles’ Arms: Ajax, Odysseus, Madness, and Suicide
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Aethiopis* end (Proclus) + Attic tragic — Sophocles *Ajax*; Apollodorean
• Neoptolemus Fetched; Death of Paris by Philoctetes’ Bow
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
• The Wooden Horse: Building and Entry
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric *Odyssey* reminiscence)
• Sinon and Laocoön: Persuasion and Omen before the Sack
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Roman Vergilian transmission labeled for Laocoön)
• Sack of Troy: Priam, Astyanax, Cassandra and Ajax Locrian
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades*; Homeric allusions)
• Helen Recovered by Menelaus
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades*; Homeric *Odyssey* 4)
• Departure Disasters Begin: Athena’s Wrath and Locrian Ajax
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* / *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades* prologue)
• Nestor’s Safe Return to Pylos
  Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 3 / Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus)
• Aeneas’s Escape from Troy (Greek Notices; Vergil Labeled)
  Trojan — Sack aftermath / western foundation legend · Homeric / cyclic / Apollodorean Greek notices + **Roman** Vergilian expansion labeled
• Telemachy: Athena at Ithaca; Telemachus Seeks News (*Odyssey* 1–4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 1–4 (Telemachy)
• Odysseus Leaves Calypso: Raft, Storm, and Landing on Scheria (*Odyssey* 5)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 5 (+ Apollodorean Ogygia notice)
• Cyclops Polyphemus (*Odyssey* 9)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 9 (+ Apollodorean Epitome)
• Return to Ithaca: Disguise and Eumaeus (*Odyssey* 13–16)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 13–16 (compressed)
• Bow Contest and Slaughter of the Suitors (*Odyssey* 21–22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 21–22 (+ Apollodorean)
• Recognition by Penelope: The Marriage Bed (*Odyssey* 23)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 23
• Laertes; End of the Blood-Feud (*Odyssey* 24)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24 (+ Apollodorean close)
• Orestes Avenges Agamemnon (*Choephoroi* / Libation Bearers)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (+ Homeric / Apollodorean revenge notice)
• The Furies and the Trial at Athens (*Eumenides*)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Eumenides*
• Phaeacians: Nausicaa, Alcinous, and the Escort Home (*Odyssey* 6–8)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 6–8
• Helen’s Eidolon: The Phantom at Troy (Stesichorus / Euripides)
  Trojan — variant of Helen’s role in the war · Stesichorean palinode + Euripides *Helen* (eidolon at Troy; real Helen in Egypt)
• 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)
• Trojan Women (Euripides)
  Trojan — Sack aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Troades* (*Trojan Women*)
• Death of Locrian Ajax on the Gyrae Rocks (Detailed)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric (*Odyssey* 4) / Apollodorean / Cycle *Nostoi* (+ Euripides *Troades* wrath frame)
• Teucer’s Exile from Salamis and the Founding of Cyprian Salamis
  Trojan — Nostoi / Aeacid aftermath · Tragic / Apollodorean / Pausanian (Telamon’s rejection; Cyprus foundation)
• 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
• Cassandra: Apollo’s Gift and Curse of Unbelieved Prophecy
  Trojan — Priamid / Apolline prophecy · Aeschylean / Apollodorean / cyclic (gift of prophecy; curse of disbelief)
• Rhesus (Play Attributed to Euripides)
  Trojan — Iliadic night / Thracian ally · Attic tragic — *Rhesus* (transmitted with Euripides; authorship disputed in antiquity and modernly)
• Capture of Helenus and the Prophecies of Troy’s Fall
  Trojan — Little Iliad / late-war oracles · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Helenus seized; conditions of capture named)
• Helen and Paris: First Night under Aphrodite
  Trojan — abduction / Aphrodite’s gift · Homeric (*Iliad* 3 bed scene as paradigm) + Cypria/Apollodorean elopement context
• Oenone and Paris: Abandonment, Refused Healing, Death
  Trojan — Paris’s first love / death appendix · Apollodorean / Hellenistic–tragic (Oenone as healer-nymph)
• Ascanius (Iulus): Brief Greek Notices
  Trojan — Aeneas’s line / aftermath · Homeric / Hymnic / Apollodorean / Hellanican (Greek notices; Roman Iulus labeled)
• Idomeneus and the Vow (Human Sacrifice / Exile)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Cretan return · Apollodorean / Servian–handbook nostos (vow; plague; exile)
• Cassandra’s Prophecies Ignored at Troy
  Trojan — Priamid prophecy / sack prelude · Cyclic / tragic / Apollodorean (warnings unheeded in the city)
• Cassandra’s Prophetic Ravings at Mycenae (Aeschylus)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Agamemnon’s return · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*
• 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
• Achilles and the River Scamander (Xanthus) — *Iliad* 21
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ aristeia / river combat · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
• Achilles, Aeneas, and Poseidon’s Rescue (*Iliad* 20)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ return / Dardanian fate · Homeric (*Iliad* 20)
• Apollo as Agenor: Decoy That Lures Achilles from the Walls (*Iliad* 21–22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / lead-in to Hector’s death · Homeric (*Iliad* 21.544–611; transition into 22)
• Hector Waits Alone: Shame, Counsel, and the Scale of Fate (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Hector’s last stand · Homeric (*Iliad* 22.1–213)
• Priam Leaves Troy to Ransom Hector (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 24) — decision and departure from Troy (before the night crossing)
• Hermes Guides Priam (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 24) — Hermes as disguised guide and counselor
• Hecuba’s Lament over Hector’s Bier (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / burial of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 24) — formal goos when the body is brought home
• Aphrodite Rescues Paris from Menelaus (*Iliad* 3)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 duel · Homeric — Aphrodite’s mist-rescue of Paris
• Aphrodite Forces Helen to Paris’s Chamber (*Iliad* 3)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — Aphrodite compels Helen after the duel
• Paris Wounds Diomedes (*Iliad* 11)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 · Homeric — Paris’s arrow ends Diomedes’ fighting day
• Poseidon Challenges Apollo: Theomachy over Troy’s Walls (*Iliad* 21)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Poseidon vs. Apollo (verbal challenge; Apollo declines)
• Hera Boxes Artemis’s Ears (*Iliad* 21)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Hera vs. Artemis after Apollo’s refusal
• 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: Archery (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — archery (Meriones over Teucer)
• Kerostasia: Zeus Weighs Hector’s Fate (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric — golden scales decide Hector’s doom
• Rhesus and the Thracian Horses (*Iliad* 10)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Doloneia · Homeric — Rhesus slain in his sleep; white horses taken
• 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
• Teucer Shoots from Behind Ajax’s Shield (*Iliad*)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Teucer’s archery · Homeric — bastard son of Telamon; archer paired with Ajax’s tower-shield
• The Achaeans Build the Wall before the Ships (*Iliad* 7)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 7 aftermath · Homeric — night after Ajax–Hector duel; wall and ditch built without hecatombs
• Poseidon and Apollo Destroy the Achaean Wall (*Iliad* 12)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / wall aftermath aetiology · Homeric — after Troy’s fall the gods wash away the wall (prolepsis in Book 12)
• Athena as Mentor (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / divine guidance of Telemachus and Odysseus · Homeric — Athena’s recurring disguise as Odysseus’s Ithacan friend Mentor
• Hector Rebukes Paris (*Iliad* 3 and 6)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Paris and Hector · Homeric — shame-speeches that drive Paris back to battle
• Glaucus Rebukes Hector over Sarpedon’s Arms (*Iliad* 17)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / fight for Patroclus’s body · Homeric — Lycian ally shames Hector for abandoning Sarpedon’s gear
• Achilles Drags Hector’s Body (*Iliad* 22–24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / aftermath of Hector’s death · Homeric — piercing of the ankles; dragging behind the chariot; daily outrage at the tomb
• Diomedes Wounds Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Diomedes’ aristeia · Homeric — Athena’s leave; spear to Aphrodite’s wrist; Aeneas rescued
• Rhesus Slain in the Dolonia (*Iliad* 10)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Night raid · Homeric — Odysseus and Diomedes kill the Thracian king and take his horses
• Patroclus’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Patroclus turns the Trojans; kills Sarpedon; presses to the wall
• Achilles’ Heel: Late Invulnerability Tradition
  Trojan — Achilles death lore / later biographic aetiology · Late classical / Roman transmission — Styx-dip heel as the sole mortal spot (labeled)
• Midas: The Golden Touch and the Ass’s Ears
  Local and lesser — Phrygian · Roman handbook / Ovidian narrative of Greek Phrygian legends (labeled); Herodotus on historical Midas noted
• Byblis
  Local and lesser — Milesian / Carian · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek mythographers know Byblis as lover of her twin Caunus
• Helen in Egypt with Proteus (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Egyptian / Herodotean Trojan variant · Herodotean — Helen detained in Egypt; Troy fought without her
• Epimenides Purifies Athens
  Local and lesser — Cretan holy man / Attic purification aetiology · Classical Greek notices — Epimenides summoned after Cylonian pollution
• Damia and Auxesia: Aeginetan Cult and Athenian Hostages (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Epidaurian–Aeginetan–Attic cult logos · Herodotean — olive-wood statues; Aeginetan theft; Athenian disaster
• Glaucus of Sparta and the Delphic Temptation (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Spartan logos / Delphic morality tale · Herodotean — deposit, perjury contemplated, lineage extinguished
• Croesus on the Pyre Saved by Apollo (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lydian logos / Delphic salvation · Herodotean — Cyrus’s pyre; Croesus’s recognition of Solon; rain from a clear sky
• Aristeas of Proconnesus (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Herodotean wonder-tale / Hyperborean poetry · Herodotean — death in the fuller’s shop; reappearance; *Arimaspea*
• Psamathe, Linus, and Crotopus
  Local and lesser — Argive aetiology / Apollo’s child Linus / Poena · Pausanian / Conon — Crotopus’s daughter; exposed Linus; Poena and Coroebus sequel
• Abaris the Hyperborean
  Local and lesser — Hyperborean wonder-worker / Herodotean notice · Herodotean (+ later Pythagorean enrichment) — arrow-borne traveler; fasting

Places appearing with them

• (Mystery setting
• Achaean
• Achaean and Trojan lines
• Achaean assembly place by the ships
• Achaean camp
• Achaean camp and ships
• Achaean camp at Troy
• Achaean camp by the ships
• Achaean council
• Achaean ditch
• Achaean lines
• Achaean ranks
• Achaean ships
• Achaean shore
• Achaean wall
• Achaean wall and ditch
• Achaean wall and ships
• Achilles’ hut
• Achilles’ hut in the Achaean camp
• Achilles’ shelter by the ships
• Achilles’ tomb
• Acte
• Alba Longa
• Altar of Apollo
• Altar of Zeus Herkeios
• Amyclae
• Antenor’s house
• Apollo’s sphere
• Areopagus
• Argos
• Asia
• Assembly
• Athena’s shrine in Troy
• Athena’s temple
• Athena’s temple at Troy
• Aulis / Chalcis
• Battlefield before Troy
• Battlefield over Patroclus
• Before the walls of Troy
• Brauron
• Bridal chamber
• Burial mound and stele
• Canopic mouth
• Chryse
• City
• City of Caunus
• Clear sky over the pyre
• Common prytaneion
• Cosmic
• Crete
• Crisa
• Cyclopes’ land
• Cyprus
• Dardania
• Daunia / Apulia
• Didyma
• Duel ground between the armies
• East
• Egypt
• Eleusis
• Elis
• Epidaurus
• Erechtheum
• Ethiopia
• Eumaeus’s steading
• Gates and ditch of the camp
• Gates of Troy
• Gates of the Achaean camp
• Greece
• Greece at large
• Greek camp
• Greek ships
• Grove
• Gyrae rocks
• Hades
• Halae Araphenides
• Hearth of Hestia
• Hector’s house
• Hellespont
• House of Zeus
• Hut and shore of Ajax’s contingent
• Hyperborea
• Ilium
• Interior of Troy
• Interior of the house
• Iolcus
• Ionia
• Ismarus
• Issedon land
• Isthmus
• Ithaca
• Ithaca palace road
• Land of the Doliones
• Land of the Taurians
• Leuke
• Lotus-eaters’ shore
• Lycia
• Malea
• Marriage chamber
• Megaron
• Memphis
• Messenia
• Miletus
• Mount Etna
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Pangaeum
• Mount Pelion
• Mouth of the Achelous
• Mycenae
• Myrmidon camp
• Mysia
• Naupactus
• Nestor’s hut
• Oenone
• Ogygia
• Olympia
• Olympus
• Open sea
• Ortygia
• Palace of Admetus at Pherae
• Palace of Alcinous
• Palace of the Atreidae
• Panathenaic
• Panopeus
• Paris and Helen’s chamber
• Paris’s bedroom in Troy
• Paris’s chamber
• Paris’s chamber in Troy
• Patroclus’s tomb
• Pedasus
• Peloponnese
• Pergamus
• Plain before Troy
• Plain between the armies
• Plain of Troy
• Plain toward Troy
• Pleuron
• Priam’s palace
• Priam’s palace in Troy
• Protesilaus’s ship
• Pyre and barrow of Hector
• Pyres on the plain
• Pytho
• Rhamnus
• River
• River Alpheus
• River Cebren
• River Pactolus
• River Scamander
• River of washing
• Salamis
• Salt spring
• Sardis
• Scaean
• Scaean Gates
• Scamander direction
• Scheria
• Scironian Rocks
• Scyros
• Sea between Greece and Asia
• Sea by the ships
• Sea off Attica
• Sea off Troy
• Seashore by the ships
• Ship bound for Pylos
• Ship offshore
• Ships
• Shore
• Shore before burning Troy
• Shrine
• Sidon
• Simois
• Space between the camps
• Spring
• Spring of Byblis
• Storeroom
• Temple
• Temple of Apollo Thymbraeus
• Temple of Athena
• Temple of Athena in Troy
• Tenedos
• The deep
• The whole earth
• Theban battlefield
• Thebe Hypoplacia
• Thebes
• Thessaly
• Thetis’s grip-point
• Thracian bivouac
• Thracian bivouac at Troy’s edge
• Threshold
• Throng of battle
• Tomb of Ilus
• Tomb of Patroclus
• Troad plain by night
• Troezen
• Trojan
• Trojan camp on the plain
• Trojan camp’s edge
• Trojan shore
• Troy
• Turn-post
• Twice around the city
• Underworld
• Wall and ditch
• Wall of Troy
• Walls and Scaean Gates of Troy
• Walls of Troy
• Way toward the Achaean ships
• Wooden Horse at the gates

Themes

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