Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Eurycleia Washes Odysseus’s Feet: The Scar (*Odyssey* 19)
  Trojan — Odyssey / recognition on Ithaca · Homeric — nurse’s recognition by the boar-scar
• Odysseus’s Scar: Autolycus and the Parnassian Boar (*Odyssey* 19)
  Trojan — Odyssey / recognition digression · Homeric — flashback that explains the scar Eurycleia recognizes

Places appearing with them

• Autolycus’s house
• House of Autolycus
• Mount Parnassus
• Mycenae
• Odysseus’s hall, Ithaca

Themes

• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Theft