Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Penelope’s Shroud: The Web Trick (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ithaca during Odysseus’s absence · Homeric — shroud for Laertes; ruse told and exposed
• Melanthius the Goatherd (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — disloyal goatherd isolated from Eumaeus and the slaughter
• Amphinomus: Warning Spurned, Death by Telemachus (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / suitors / mnesterophonia · Homeric — the “good” suitor Athena still dooms

Characters in shared stories

• Amphimedon’s shade
• Amphinomus
• Antinous
• Disloyal maid
• Eumaeus
• Lyssa
• Melanthius
• Melantho
• Nisus
• Odysseus
• Other suitors
• Suitors
• Telemachus
• Thyestes