Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Quarrel at the Ships: Chryses, Plague, and the Taking of Briseis
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* Book 1 (Achilles’ wrath begins)
• Ajax and Hector: The Day’s Duel and Truce for Burial
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 7
• Reconciliation; Achilles Returns to Battle
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 19
• 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*)
• Andromache Allotted to Neoptolemus after the Sack
  Trojan — Sack / division of spoils · Epic Cycle / Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Hecuba Allotted to Odysseus
  Trojan — Sack / division of spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Astyanax: Death Variants (Neoptolemus vs. Odysseus)
  Trojan — Sack / Hector’s heir · Cyclic / Apollodorean / tragic — killer variants isolated

Places appearing with them

• Achaean assembly place by the ships
• Achaean camp
• Achaean council
• Achaean ships
• Achilles’ hut
• Achilles’ tomb
• Athena’s temple
• Chryse
• Cynossema
• Delphi, Lesche of the Cnidians
• Ithaca
• Molossia
• Mount Pangaeum
• Plain before Troy
• Plain toward Troy
• Pyres on the plain
• Seashore by the ships
• Ships
• Shore
• Shore before burning Troy
• Tomb of Achilles in the Troad
• Trojan shore
• Troy
• Troy in sack
• Walls of Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• War