Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (18)

• Beheading of Medusa: Birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Hesiodic enrichment (Medusa mortal; Pegasus and Chrysaor from the neck)
• Hera and Athena Arm for War: The Chariot of Hera (*Iliad* 5)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 5 · Homeric — goddesses arm and descend against Ares
• Zeus Forbids the Gods to Fight (*Iliad* 8)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 8 · Homeric — Zeus’s ban on divine intervention
• Hera and Athena Blocked by Zeus (*Iliad* 8)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 8 · Homeric — armed descent aborted by Zeus’s threat
• Hera’s Deception of Zeus on Ida (Dios Apate, *Iliad* 14)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 14 · Homeric — Dios apate (the Deception of Zeus)
• Zeus Lifts the Ban: The Gods May Fight (*Iliad* 20)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 20 · Homeric — revocation of the Book 8 ban; theomachy begins
• Hera Boxes Artemis’s Ears (*Iliad* 21)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Hera vs. Artemis after Apollo’s refusal
• Hermes and Leto Refuse Combat (*Iliad* 21)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Hermes declines to fight Leto; theomachy winds down
• Hermes Orders Calypso to Release Odysseus (*Odyssey* 5)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ogygia · Homeric — Hermes’ embassy and Calypso’s bitter obedience
• Kerostasia: Zeus Weighs Hector’s Fate (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric — golden scales decide Hector’s doom
• Eos and the Immortality of Memnon (*Aethiopis*)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* aftermath · Cyclic — Eos obtains immortality for Memnon from Zeus after Achilles kills him
• 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
• Diomedes Wounds Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Diomedes’ aristeia · Homeric — Athena’s leave; spear to Aphrodite’s wrist; Aeneas rescued
• Psychostasia: Zeus Weighs Achilles and Memnon
  Trojan — Aethiopis / Aeschylean tragedy / Memnon cycle · Aeschylean *Psychostasia* (lost) + cyclic *Aethiopis* notices — Zeus scales the fates of Achilles and Memnon
• Ariadne’s Crown among the Stars (Corona Borealis)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Dionysiac–Thesean · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean / Hesiodic marriage frame)
• Aquila: The Eagle of Ganymede (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Zeus’s eagle · Catasterismic handbook — eagle that bore Ganymede (or Zeus’s bird) placed among the stars
• Aquarius: Ganymede the Water-Bearer (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Ganymede · Catasterismic handbook — Ganymede as Aquarius
• Batrachomyomachia: Battle of Frogs and Mice
  Local and lesser — Homeric pseudepigrapha / animal parody epic · Pseudo-Homeric (Hellenistic / imperial attribution to Homer or Pigres) — frog-mouse war as Iliadic parody

Characters in shared stories

• Achaean army
• Aeneas
• Ajax
• All Olympians
• Andromache
• Aphrodite
• Ares
• Artemis
• Cecrops
• Chrysaor
• Danaans and Trojans
• Diomedes
• Dionysus
• Eagle
• Electra
• Epeius
• Eros
• Ganymede
• Geryon
• Gorgons
• Hades
• Hebe
• Hecuba
• Hera, Athena, Poseidon, Hermes, Hephaestus
• Horai
• Hypnos
• Ker
• Lapiths
• Lyssa
• Memnon
• Mouse and frog chieftains
• Myrmidons
• Oceanus and Tethys
• Odysseus
• Pallas
• Pasithea
• People of Crisa
• Perseus
• Philotes
• Physignathus