Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (23)

• Dionysus Turns the Pirates into Dolphins (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Dionysus · Homeric Hymn VII — metamorphosis climax isolated
• Mestra: Shape-Shifting Daughter of Erysichthon (Ovid-Labeled)
  Heroes / Thessalian — Erysichthon aftermath · Roman transmission (Ovid) + Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices of Mestra
• Phyllis and Demophon: The Almond Tree of Thrace
  Heroes — Theseid nostoi / Thracian local · Apollodorean Epitome + Ovid-labeled Roman letters (*Heroides*)
• Fight over Patroclus’s Body; Thetis and the New Armor
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 17–18
• Reconciliation; Achilles Returns to Battle
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 19
• Funeral of Patroclus and the Games
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 23
• Penthesilea the Amazon; Achilles and Thersites
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ later classical Thersites episode)
• Fetching Philoctetes: Bow of Heracles Returned to the War
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Attic tragic — Sophocles *Philoctetes*
• Neoptolemus Fetched; Death of Paris by Philoctetes’ Bow
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
• The Wooden Horse: Building and Entry
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric *Odyssey* reminiscence)
• Sack of Troy: Priam, Astyanax, Cassandra and Ajax Locrian
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades*; Homeric allusions)
• Helen Recovered by Menelaus
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades*; Homeric *Odyssey* 4)
• Agamemnon’s Return and Murder (Aeschylus / Nostoi)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*
• Menelaus and Helen: Wandering before Sparta (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 4 (+ *Nostoi* / Apollodorean Egypt)
• Nestor’s Safe Return to Pylos
  Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 3 / Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus)
• Aeneas’s Escape from Troy (Greek Notices; Vergil Labeled)
  Trojan — Sack aftermath / western foundation legend · Homeric / cyclic / Apollodorean Greek notices + **Roman** Vergilian expansion labeled
• Helen’s Eidolon: The Phantom at Troy (Stesichorus / Euripides)
  Trojan — variant of Helen’s role in the war · Stesichorean palinode + Euripides *Helen* (eidolon at Troy; real Helen in Egypt)
• Orestes (Euripides): Aftermath at Argos
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Orestes* (post-matricide crisis before any final acquittal staging)
• Death of Palamedes at Troy
  Trojan — Cypria / early war · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ tragic and Dictyan elaborations labeled where late)
• Euripides *Cyclops* (Satyr Play): Odysseus and Polyphemus
  Trojan — Odyssey side-tradition / satyr drama · Attic satyr play — Euripides *Cyclops* (vs. Homeric *Odyssey* 9)
• Hector Fires the Achaean Ships (*Iliad* 15–16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ships crisis · Homeric — fire at Protesilaus’s hull; climax of Zeus’s promise to Thetis
• Achilles Drags Hector’s Body (*Iliad* 22–24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / aftermath of Hector’s death · Homeric — piercing of the ankles; dragging behind the chariot; daily outrage at the tomb
• Peleus and Thetis: Courtship and Wrestling
  Local and lesser — Thessalian / Achillean prelude (before Trojan wedding) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (shape-shifting Nereid wrestled on the shore)

Characters in shared stories

• Aegisthus
• Aeneas
• Agamemnon
• Ajax
• Almond tree
• Amphitrite
• Anchises
• Andromache
• Antiope
• Aphrodite and Apollo
• Ares
• Artemis
• Ascanius
• Astyanax
• Automedon
• Automedon and Alcimdon
• Boreas and Zephyrus
• Briseis
• Cassandra
• Chiron
• Chorus of Argive elders
• Chorus of sailors
• Chrysothemis
• Deidamia
• Deiphobus
• Demophon
• Diomedes
• Dionysus
• Eidothea
• Epeius
• Epimetheus
• Erinyes
• Eros
• Erysichthon
• Eumelus
• Euphorbus
• Glauce
• Greeks and Trojans
• Hector
• Hecuba