Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (29)

• Nereus and the Nereids (Hesiodic / Apollodorean Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Pontus’s line / sea nymphs · Hesiodic catalogue (+ Apollodorean Nereid list)
• Laodamia and Protesilaus: Brief Reunion and Death
  Heroes — Thessalian / Trojan first-landing aftermath · Apollodorean / tragic / Ovid-labeled Roman for the statue and second death
• Landing at Troy: Protesilaus and Cycnus
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric Protesilaus notice)
• Sinon and Laocoön: Persuasion and Omen before the Sack
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Roman Vergilian transmission labeled for Laocoön)
• Division of Spoils; Sacrifice of Polyxena
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Euripides *Hecuba* / *Troades*
• Departure Disasters Begin: Athena’s Wrath and Locrian Ajax
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* / *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades* prologue)
• Teucer’s Exile from Salamis and the Founding of Cyprian Salamis
  Trojan — Nostoi / Aeacid aftermath · Tragic / Apollodorean / Pausanian (Telamon’s rejection; Cyprus foundation)
• Cassandra: Apollo’s Gift and Curse of Unbelieved Prophecy
  Trojan — Priamid / Apolline prophecy · Aeschylean / Apollodorean / cyclic (gift of prophecy; curse of disbelief)
• Nauplius’s False Beacons: The Wreck at Caphereus (Nostoi)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Euboean disaster · Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* / Apollodorean (+ tragic notices)
• Nauplius’s Revenge: Justice Denied and the Corruption of the Achaean Wives
  Trojan — Nostoi prelude / aftermath of Palamedes · Apollodorean / tragic handbook (Nauplius at Troy; domestic revenge)
• Iphigenia at Aulis (Euripides) — Completed Kill / Ambiguous End
  Trojan — Aulis sacrifice (tragic version) · Attic tragic — Euripides *Iphigenia at Aulis* (as distinct from *Cypria* deer-rescue in 007)
• Epeius Builds the Wooden Horse
  Trojan — Sack prelude / wooden horse · Epic Cycle / Homeric reminiscence / Apollodorean (Epeius as builder; Athena’s aid)
• Antenor Spared at the Sack of Troy
  Trojan — Sack / guest-friendship and survival · Epic Cycle / Apollodorean / Homeric background (Antenor as peace-counselor; spared for hospitality)
• Eurypylus of Mysia at Troy: Slain by Neoptolemus
  Trojan — Little Iliad / Posthomeric endgame · Cyclic (*Little Iliad*) / Apollodorean / Posthomeric (Quintus); Pausanian for Machaon link
• Thersites Rebukes Agamemnon (Iliad 2)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achaean assembly · Homeric (*Iliad* 2) — assembly abuse; Odysseus’s suppression
• Hera and Athena Arm for War: The Chariot of Hera (*Iliad* 5)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 5 · Homeric — goddesses arm and descend against Ares
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: The Chariot Race (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — chariot race as chief contest
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Boxing (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — boxing contest (Epeius vs. Euryalus)
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Wrestling (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — wrestling draw (Ajax Telamonian and Odysseus)
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Foot-Race (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — foot-race (Odysseus wins by Athena’s aid)
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Archery (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — archery (Meriones over Teucer)
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Armed Combat (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — Ajax Telamonian vs. Diomedes in full armor
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: The Javelin (Agamemnon Honored) (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — javelin prize awarded to Agamemnon without a cast
• Funeral Games for Patroclus: Casting the Iron Mass (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — weight-throw (solos); Polypoetes victorious
• Xanthus and Balius: Achilles’ Talking Horses (*Iliad* 19)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ return to battle · Homeric — immortal horses prophesy Achilles’ death
• Agamemnon’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 11)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 · Homeric — Agamemnon’s morning rampage until wounded
• Patroclus’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Patroclus turns the Trojans; kills Sarpedon; presses to the wall
• Achilles’ Heel: Late Invulnerability Tradition
  Trojan — Achilles death lore / later biographic aetiology · Late classical / Roman transmission — Styx-dip heel as the sole mortal spot (labeled)
• Polydamas Advises Hector (*Iliad* 12 and 18)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Trojan counsel vs. Hector’s force · Homeric — bird-omen counsel at the ditch; night counsel after Achilles’ return

Characters in shared stories

• Acastus
• Achaean host
• Achaean sackers
• Aegialia
• Aegisthus
• Aeneas
• Agamemnon
• Ajax
• Amphitrite
• Andromache
• Antenor
• Ares
• Artemis
• Balius
• Cadmus
• Calchas
• Cassandra
• Chorus of Argive elders
• Cometes
• Coön
• Cycnus
• Diomedes
• Doris
• Electra
• Epeius
• Erinyes
• Eumelus
• Euphorbus
• Euryalus
• Eurypylus
• Eëtion
• Gaia
• Galatea, Psamathe, Galene, Cymothoe, et al.
• Glaucus
• Hades
• Hector
• Hecuba
• Helenus
• Hesione
• Horai