Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (10)

• Telephus: Auge, Birth, and the Mysian Kingship
  Heroes — Heraclean offspring / Mysian; Trojan prelude · Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Auge* / *Telephus* notices; Hesiodic *Catalogue*)
• Chrysothemis (Sophocles’ *Electra*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia (Electra’s sister) · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (foil sister)
• Sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis (Deer Substitute)
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Iphigenia at Aulis*); Artemis substitutes a deer
• Agamemnon’s Return and Murder (Aeschylus / Nostoi)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*
• Electra: Recognition and Revenge (Sophocles)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (vs. Aeschylean *Choephoroi* recognition)
• Iphigenia among the Taurians (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Iphigenia in Tauris*
• Iphigenia at Aulis (Euripides) — Completed Kill / Ambiguous End
  Trojan — Aulis sacrifice (tragic version) · Attic tragic — Euripides *Iphigenia at Aulis* (as distinct from *Cypria* deer-rescue in 007)
• Eurypylus of Mysia at Troy: Slain by Neoptolemus
  Trojan — Little Iliad / Posthomeric endgame · Cyclic (*Little Iliad*) / Apollodorean / Posthomeric (Quintus); Pausanian for Machaon link
• Iris Summons Helen to the Wall (*Iliad* 3)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — Iris (as Laodice) fetches Helen for the teichoscopia
• Artemis at Brauron: Iphigenia and the Attic Cult
  Local and lesser — Attic cult aetiology / Artemis Brauronia · Euripidean / Pausanian — Iphigenia brings the Tauric image to Brauron (or Halai)

Places appearing with them

• Agamemnon’s tomb
• Amyclae
• Assembly
• Brauron
• Halae Araphenides
• Halai Araphenides
• Helen’s chamber in Troy
• Land of the Taurians
• Mount Helicon
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Olympia
• Plain before Troy
• Pytho
• Scyros
• Shore
• Tauric land
• Troezen
• Trojan shore
• Wall of Troy

Themes

• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Underworld
• War