Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (13)

• Heracles and Hippocoön: The Spartan Vengeance War
  Heroes — Heracles / side campaigns after the labors · Apollodorean (Hippocoön; Oeonus; Tyndareus restored)
• Aphrodite Rescues Paris from Menelaus (*Iliad* 3)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 duel · Homeric — Aphrodite’s mist-rescue of Paris
• Poseidon Rallies the Greeks (*Iliad* 13)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 13 · Homeric — Poseidon’s covert aid against Zeus’s will
• Patroclus Arms in Achilles’ Armor (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 16 · Homeric — arming and Achilles’ charge isolated from Patroclus’s death
• Eos and the Immortality of Memnon (*Aethiopis*)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* aftermath · Cyclic — Eos obtains immortality for Memnon from Zeus after Achilles kills him
• Ajax Defends the Ships (*Iliad* 15–16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / teichomachy aftermath / ships in peril · Homeric — Telamonian Ajax as last bulwark before Patroclus enters
• Ajax Carries Achilles’ Body from the Fight (*Aethiopis*)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* / death of Achilles aftermath · Cyclic — Ajax bears the corpse while Odysseus covers the retreat
• Odysseus Enters Troy in Disguise; Helen Recognizes Him (*Little Iliad*)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Little Iliad* · Cyclic / Apollodorean / Euripidean reminiscence — spy mission before the horse
• 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
• Polites Slain before Priam
  Trojan — Sack of Troy / Priam’s death prelude · Vergilian Roman narrative (+ Little Iliadic / Pausanian Greek notices) — Neoptolemus kills Polites in Priam’s sight
• Aristomenes of Messenia (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Messenian resistance hero · Pausanian Messenian — Aristomenes’ exploits in the Messenian Wars
• Pan and Pheidippides before Marathon (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Attic cult aetiology / Herodotean logos · Herodotean — Pan appears to the runner; cult of Pan established under the Acropolis
• The Carnea and Apollo Carneius (Sparta)
  Local and lesser — Spartan / Dorian Apollo festival aetiology · Pausanian / classical — Carneius as local god fused with Apollo; Carnea festival

Places appearing with them

• Achaean council
• Achaean ranks
• Achilles’ shelter by the ships
• Amyclae
• Assembly
• Ceadas
• Duel ground between the armies
• Eos’s eastern realm
• House of Zeus
• Mount Parthenion
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Palace of Priam
• Paris’s chamber in Troy
• Patroclus’s tomb
• Peloponnese
• Plain before Troy
• Refuge of Tyndareus in exile
• Rhamnus
• Ships
• Shore
• The deep
• Thermydrae
• Troezen
• Trojan plain at the ships
• Troy in sack

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Contest
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Underworld
• War