Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (6)

• Division of Spoils; Sacrifice of Polyxena
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Euripides *Hecuba* / *Troades*
• Trojan Women (Euripides)
  Trojan — Sack aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Troades* (*Trojan Women*)
• Hecuba: Polymestor and Polydorus (Euripides)
  Trojan — Sack aftermath / early nostos · Attic tragic — Euripides *Hecuba* (Polymestor–Polydorus plot; Polyxena cross-ref 038)
• Hecuba Allotted to Odysseus
  Trojan — Sack / division of spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Division of the Trojan Women: Brief Allotments
  Trojan — Sack / spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean / cyclic
• Ghost of Achilles Demands Polyxena
  Trojan — Cyclic *Nostoi* / *Iliou Persis* aftermath / Euripidean · Cyclic / Euripidean — Achilles’ shade requires Polyxena’s sacrifice

Places appearing with them

• Achaean camp on the Thracian
• Achaean ships
• Achilles’ tomb
• Assembly
• Athena’s temple
• Cynossema
• Hecuba’s tent
• Ithaca
• Mount Pangaeum
• Ships
• Ships for Argos, Phthia/Epirus, Ithaca, Sparta
• Shore before burning Troy
• The deep
• Thracian Chersonese
• Tomb of Achilles in the Troad
• Trojan shore
• Troy
• Walls of Troy

Themes

• Contest
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• War