Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (13)

• Murder of Apsyrtus: Child Slain and Dismembered (Apollodorus)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (young Apsyrtus taken from Colchis; killed and scattered to delay Aeetes)
• Circe’s Purification; Libya and Triton’s Gift (Return Voyage)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian return (Circe cleanses kin-blood; later Libyan shoals and Triton)
• Elpenor’s Shade and Burial Plea (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / companions of Odysseus · Homeric — first shade at the trench; plea for burial rites
• Odysseus Meets Anticleia (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / family of Odysseus · Homeric — mother and son at the blood-trench
• Aeolus and the Laestrygonians (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 10.1–199 (+ Apollodorean)
• Circe on Aeaea (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 10.135–574 (+ Apollodorean)
• Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis; Cattle of Helios (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 12 (+ Apollodorean)
• Telegony: Telegonus Kills Odysseus (Epic Cycle End)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle close / post-*Odyssey* · Epic Cycle — *Telegony* (Proclus summary; Eugammon of Cyrene attrib.)
• The Sirens (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Sirens episode isolated from *Odyssey* 12
• The Laestrygonians at Telepylus (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Telepylus massacre isolated from Aeolus
• Circe, Hermes, and the Herb Moly (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — moly antidote and restoration isolated from the full Circe stay
• Circe Transforms Odysseus’s Crew into Swine (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Aeaea · Homeric — drugs, wand, and pig-pens; Eurylochus escapes
• Elpenor Falls from Circe’s Roof (*Odyssey* 10–11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Aeaea / Nekyia prelude · Homeric — drunken fall; unburied shade; burial plea and fulfillment

Characters in shared stories

• Aeetes
• Aeolus Hippotades
• Anticleia
• Antiphates
• Antiphates’ daughter
• Apsyrtus
• Argonauts
• Artemis
• Autolycus
• Charybdis
• Circe
• Companions
• Daughters of Celeus
• Electra
• Elpenor
• Euphemus
• Eurylochus
• Helios
• Heracles
• Hesperides
• Hyperion
• Jason
• Jason and Medea
• Laestrygonian queen
• Laestrygonians
• Lyssa
• Medea
• Odysseus
• Odysseus’s crew
• Orpheus
• Penelope
• Polypoetes
• Scouts
• Scylla
• Sirens
• Teiresias
• Telegonus
• Telemachus
• The Hours
• Tiresias