Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (21)

• Telemachy: Athena at Ithaca; Telemachus Seeks News (*Odyssey* 1–4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 1–4 (Telemachy)
• Return to Ithaca: Disguise and Eumaeus (*Odyssey* 13–16)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 13–16 (compressed)
• Penelope’s Bow Contest (*Odyssey* 21)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — bow contest isolated from the slaughter in Book 22
• Slaughter of the Suitors (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — mnesterophonia isolated from the bow contest
• Irus the Beggar: Boxing in the Palace (*Odyssey* 18)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Odysseus (disguised) vs. Irus
• Penelope’s Shroud: The Web Trick (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ithaca during Odysseus’s absence · Homeric — shroud for Laertes; ruse told and exposed
• Melanthius the Goatherd (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — disloyal goatherd isolated from Eumaeus and the slaughter
• Eumaeus’s Hospitality to the Beggar Odysseus (*Odyssey* 14)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — swineherd’s hut; food, cloak, and loyal speech
• Penelope’s Dream of the Geese and the Eagle (*Odyssey* 19)
  Trojan — Odyssey / recognition on Ithaca · Homeric — dream omen; Odysseus as eagle; suitors as geese
• Theoclymenus Prophesies the Suitors’ Doom (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Melampodid seer; bird-omen and hall vision
• Antinous: First of the Suitors to Die (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia · Homeric — Antinous shot at the wine-cup
• Eurymachus: Death of the Suitors’ Spokesman (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia · Homeric — Eurymachus’s failed bargain and death after Antinous
• Leodes the Suitor-Diviner Slain (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia · Homeric — sacrificial diviner among the suitors; futile plea
• Athena as Mentor (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / divine guidance of Telemachus and Odysseus · Homeric — Athena’s recurring disguise as Odysseus’s Ithacan friend Mentor
• Philoetius the Loyal Cowherd (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ithacan household / mnesterophonia · Homeric — cattle-herd who stands with Odysseus against the suitors
• The Suitors Ambush Telemachus (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / suitors’ plot · Homeric — Antinous’s ship lies in wait at Asteris; Athena saves the return
• Phemius the Singer Spared (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / mercy · Homeric — Phemius pleads; Telemachus intercedes; Odysseus spares the bard
• Halitherses Prophesies in the Ithacan Assembly (*Odyssey* 2)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / Ithacan politics · Homeric — Halitherses reads the bird-omen; Eurymachus scorns him
• Ctesippus Throws the Cow’s Heel (*Odyssey* 20–22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / suitors’ outrages / mnesterophonia · Homeric — Ctesippus’s “guest-gift”; later killed by Philoetius
• Punishment of Melanthius the Goatherd (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / household justice · Homeric — Melanthius fetches arms for the suitors; is tortured and mutilated
• Hanging of the Disloyal Maidservants (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / household purge · Homeric — Eurycleia counts twelve guilty maids; Telemachus hangs them

Places appearing with them

• Amyclae
• Argos
• Asteris
• Eumaeus’s steading
• Hades
• Ithaca
• Ithaca palace road
• Megaron
• Megaron of Odysseus’s palace
• Messenia
• Mycenae
• Odysseus’s palace
• Odysseus’s palace hall
• Ogygia
• Palace hall on Ithaca
• Road to Ithaca’s town
• Scheria
• Sea between Ithaca and Samos
• Ship approaching Ithaca
• Steading of Eumaeus
• Storeroom
• Threshold and courtyard of Odysseus’s palace

Themes

• Binding
• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Hubris
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• Underworld
• War