Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (8)

• Andromache (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Neoptolemus · Attic tragic — Euripides *Andromache*
• Andromache Allotted to Neoptolemus after the Sack
  Trojan — Sack / division of spoils · Epic Cycle / Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Briseis Returned: Her Lament for Patroclus (*Iliad* 19)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / reconciliation · Homeric — restitution of Briseis; her goos over Patroclus
• Helenus and Andromache in Epirus: The Molossian Settlement
  Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Epirote foundation · Apollodorean / Pausanian — after Neoptolemus’s death Helenus holds Andromache; Molossian line
• The Ghost of Patroclus Appears to Achilles (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / funeral of Patroclus · Homeric — shade demands burial; shared bones; vanishes like smoke
• Epeigeus Slain by Hector
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Myrmidon exile of royal blood; Hector kills him over Sarpedon’s body
• Peleus and Thetis: Courtship and Wrestling
  Local and lesser — Thessalian / Achillean prelude (before Trojan wedding) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (shape-shifting Nereid wrestled on the shore)
• Aeacus, Aegina, and the Myrmidons (Peleus’s People)
  Local and lesser — Aeginetan / Phthian · Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled ant metamorphosis; Hesiodic and Pindaric Aeacus notices

Characters in shared stories

• Aeacus
• Aegina
• Agacles
• Ajax
• Andromache
• Ares
• Asopus
• Astyanax
• Briseis
• Captive women
• Chiron
• Epeigeus
• Epimetheus
• Hecuba
• Helenus
• Hermione
• Lyssa
• Menoetius
• Minos and Rhadamanthys
• Molossian kings
• Molossus
• Myrmidons
• Odysseus
• Orestes
• Pallas
• Patroclus
• Peleus
• Peleus and Thetis
• Philotes
• Phocus
• Psamathe
• Pyrrhus
• Talthybius
• Telamon
• The prophesied son
• Thyestes
• Trojan assembly