Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Shade of Tiresias Advises Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / Theban seer in Hades · Homeric — Tiresias at the blood-trench
• 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)
• Euripides *Cyclops* (Satyr Play): Odysseus and Polyphemus
  Trojan — Odyssey side-tradition / satyr drama · Attic satyr play — Euripides *Cyclops* (vs. Homeric *Odyssey* 9)
• Tiresias’s Prophecy of the Inland Oar (*Odyssey* 11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nekyia / nostos beyond Ithaca · Homeric — Poseidon’s wrath; Helios’s cattle warning; oar mistaken for winnowing-fan; gentle death from the sea
• Hylas Abducted by the Nymphs
  Local and lesser — Mysian / Argonautic episode · Apollonian (*Argonautica*); Theocritean idyll; Apollodorean brief notice
• Polyphemus and Galatea (Theocritus, *Idyll* 11)
  Local and lesser — Sicilian / Cyclops love (pre-Odyssean temper) · Theocritean Greek bucolic (Cyclops as rustic lover; no Acis)
• Acis, Galatea, and Polyphemus (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Sicilian love triangle / river aetiology · Roman transmission (Ovid); builds on Theocritean Polyphemus–Galatea love

Places appearing with them

• Argo
• Cyclopes’ land
• Cyclops’s cave
• Cyclops’s rock seat
• Edge of Ocean
• Gates of Hades
• Inland place far from sea
• Inland place of men without sea-knowledge
• Ismarus
• Ithaca
• Lotus-eaters’ shore
• Mount Etna
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Ogygia
• Open sea
• River Acis
• Scheria
• Ship offshore
• Shore
• Spring Pegae
• The deep
• Thrinacia

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War