Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (7)

• Atlas Condemned to Hold the Heavens
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan punishment · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (sky-burden as Zeus’s sentence after the Titan war)
• 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)
• Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis; Cattle of Helios (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 12 (+ Apollodorean)
• Scylla and Charybdis (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — strait passage isolated from *Odyssey* 12
• Telemachus at Sparta: Menelaus and Helen (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — Spartan visit isolated from the Telemachy overview
• Hermes Orders Calypso to Release Odysseus (*Odyssey* 5)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ogygia · Homeric — Hermes’ embassy and Calypso’s bitter obedience

Characters in shared stories

• Antinous
• Atlas
• Calypso
• Charybdis
• Circe
• Clymene
• Electra
• Epimetheus
• Eurycleia
• Eurylochus
• Heracles
• Hesperides
• Hyperion
• Iapetus
• Ino-Leucothea
• Lyssa
• Menoetius
• Nestor
• Odysseus
• Peisistratus
• Penelope
• People of Crisa
• Polyphemus
• Proteus
• Rhea
• Scylla
• Sirens
• Six picked companions
• Suitors
• Telemachus
• The Hours
• Thyestes
• Zeus