Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (15)

• Hermes as Psychopomp: Leading the Suitors’ Shades
  Olympian gods · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24
• Shade of Agamemnon Warns Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Atreid / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Agamemnon’s shade in the underworld consultation
• 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
• Shade of Tiresias Advises Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / Theban seer in Hades · Homeric — Tiresias at the blood-trench
• Odysseus’s Feigned Madness and Palamedes
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (recruitment ruse; Palamedes’s test)
• Telemachy: Athena at Ithaca; Telemachus Seeks News (*Odyssey* 1–4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 1–4 (Telemachy)
• Odysseus Leaves Calypso: Raft, Storm, and Landing on Scheria (*Odyssey* 5)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 5 (+ Apollodorean Ogygia notice)
• Nekyia: Odysseus in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 11 (+ Apollodorean summary)
• Return to Ithaca: Disguise and Eumaeus (*Odyssey* 13–16)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 13–16 (compressed)
• Bow Contest and Slaughter of the Suitors (*Odyssey* 21–22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 21–22 (+ Apollodorean)
• Laertes; End of the Blood-Feud (*Odyssey* 24)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24 (+ Apollodorean close)
• Phaeacians: Nausicaa, Alcinous, and the Escort Home (*Odyssey* 6–8)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 6–8
• Telegony: Telegonus Kills Odysseus (Epic Cycle End)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle close / post-*Odyssey* · Epic Cycle — *Telegony* (Proclus summary; Eugammon of Cyrene attrib.)
• Hecuba Allotted to Odysseus
  Trojan — Sack / division of spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean

Characters in shared stories

• Achilles
• Aegisthus
• Agamemnon
• Agamemnon / Achilles
• Ajax
• Alcinous
• Amphimedon
• Amphinomus
• Amphitrite
• Andromache
• Anticleia
• Antinous
• Arete
• Arete’s and Alcinous’s household
• Argos
• Artemis
• Autolycus
• Cassandra
• Circe
• Companions
• Comrades slain with Agamemnon
• Daughters of Celeus
• Demodocus
• Disloyal maidservants
• Electra
• Elpenor
• Eumaeus
• Eupeithes
• Euryalus
• Eurycleia
• Hades
• Hecuba
• Helios
• Hermes
• Ino-Leucothea
• Lyssa
• Medon
• Melanthius
• Nauplius
• Nausicaa