Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (12)

• Poseidon and Apollo Build the Walls of Troy (Homeric)
  Olympian gods — Poseidon & Apollo / Trojan aetiology · Homeric — gods’ year of servitude to Laomedon; unpaid wage
• Death of Achilles: Paris and Apollo
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric foreshadowing)
• Achilles and Helen Meet (Cypria)
  Trojan — Cypria interlude · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus)
• Death of Locrian Ajax on the Gyrae Rocks (Detailed)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric (*Odyssey* 4) / Apollodorean / Cycle *Nostoi* (+ Euripides *Troades* wrath frame)
• Cassandra: Apollo’s Gift and Curse of Unbelieved Prophecy
  Trojan — Priamid / Apolline prophecy · Aeschylean / Apollodorean / cyclic (gift of prophecy; curse of disbelief)
• Rhesus (Play Attributed to Euripides)
  Trojan — Iliadic night / Thracian ally · Attic tragic — *Rhesus* (transmitted with Euripides; authorship disputed in antiquity and modernly)
• Antenor Spared at the Sack of Troy
  Trojan — Sack / guest-friendship and survival · Epic Cycle / Apollodorean / Homeric background (Antenor as peace-counselor; spared for hospitality)
• Creusa’s Death at Troy (Vergil-Labeled)
  Trojan — Sack / Aeneas escape (Roman transmission) · **Roman** — Vergil, *Aeneid* 2 (labeled); Greek notices of Aeneas’s escape lack this full Creusa episode
• Capture of Helenus and the Prophecies of Troy’s Fall
  Trojan — Little Iliad / late-war oracles · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Helenus seized; conditions of capture named)
• Deiphobus Marries Helen; Death in the Sack
  Trojan — Priamid / sack · Epic Cycle (*Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis*) / Apollodorean / Vergilian enrichment (labeled where Roman)
• Hephaestus Burns the Plain: Fire against Scamander (*Iliad* 21)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / divine combat / Achilles’ rescue · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
• Apollo as Agenor: Decoy That Lures Achilles from the Walls (*Iliad* 21–22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / lead-in to Hector’s death · Homeric (*Iliad* 21.544–611; transition into 22)

Places appearing with them

• Achaean ships
• Achaean shore
• Adriatic
• Assembly
• Athena’s shrine in Troy
• Athena’s temple at Troy
• Battlefield before Troy
• Burning Troy
• Greek camp
• Gyrae rocks
• House of Deiphobus
• Iliadic agora
• Ilium
• Leuke
• Lycia
• Mount Pangaeum
• Mycenae
• Plain before Troy
• Scaean Gates
• Scamander direction
• Scamander’s banks and channels
• Scyros
• Sea and plain of Troy
• Temple
• Temple quarters
• The deep
• Thracian bivouac
• Trojan shore
• Troy
• Walls of Troy

Themes

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