Ships

Place · slug: ships

Also: esp. Protesilaus’s, Greek camp, Troy

Stories (15)

Ajax and Hector: The Day’s Duel and Truce for Burial
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 7
Trojans at the Ships; Patroclus Pleads for Achilles’ Armor
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 11–16 (compressed arc to Achilles’ concession)
Theft of the Palladium (Diomedes and Odysseus)
Trojan — Little Iliad / sack prelude · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / Apollodorean (Diomedes and Odysseus steal Athena’s image)
Hecuba Allotted to Odysseus
Trojan — Sack / division of spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean
Division of the Trojan Women: Brief Allotments
Trojan — Sack / spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean / cyclic
Raid on the Cicones at Ismarus (*Odyssey* 9)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings begin · Homeric — first post-Troy disaster in Odysseus’s apologue
Ghost of Achilles Demands Polyxena
Trojan — Cyclic *Nostoi* / *Iliou Persis* aftermath / Euripidean · Cyclic / Euripidean — Achilles’ shade requires Polyxena’s sacrifice
The Achaeans Build the Wall before the Ships (*Iliad* 7)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 7 aftermath · Homeric — night after Ajax–Hector duel; wall and ditch built without hecatombs
Odysseus Returns Chryseis to Chryses (*Iliad* 1)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 1 · Homeric — voyage to Chryse; hecatomb; plague ends; Chryses’ prayer
Ajax Defends the Ships (*Iliad* 15–16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / teichomachy aftermath / ships in peril · Homeric — Telamonian Ajax as last bulwark before Patroclus enters
Achilles Consoles Priam with Niobe (*Iliad* 24)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Ransom of Hector · Homeric — Niobe’s grief and return to food as consolation paradeigma
Patroclus Borrows Achilles’ Armor (*Iliad* 16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia prelude · Homeric — Nestor’s plan; Achilles’ limits; Patroclus arms in the Myrmidon panoply
Cinyras and Myrrha
Local and lesser — Cypriot kingship / Adonis prelude · Apollodorean / Pindaric notices of Cinyras; Myrrha crime as household disaster
Rhoeo and Anius: Delian Myths
Local and lesser — Delian / Apolline local myth · Apollodorean / Diodoran / cyclic notices (Rhoeo; Anius; Oenotropae)
Calchas and Mopsus: The Contest and Death of Calchas
Local and lesser — mantic rivalry / post-Trojan · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Melampodia* / Strabonian

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Ships

Stories (15)

Characters in shared stories