Troy
Place · slug: troy
Also: the sea, Troad, Pergamum, wooden horse, Teucrians’ land, Trojan plain and marshland, Idaean countryside, onward West, vicinity of Troy, Achaean re-entry, Gargarus, Memnonian memorials, Pessinus, Crete and, or Phrygia, Phrygia
- The Five Ages of Man (Hesiod, *Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — ages of humankind · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* (five races; Bronze and Heroic ages distinct)
- Iris the Messenger (Iliad)
Cosmogony / Theogony — divine agents / Olympian household · Homeric (*Iliad*) — Iris as go-between; Hesiodic genealogy noted
- Aphrodite as Daughter of Zeus and Dione
Olympian gods · Homeric (Olympian parentage; distinct from Hesiodic foam-birth)
- Hephaestus Cast from Heaven by Zeus
Olympian gods · Homeric / Apollodorean — Zeus casts Hephaestus for defending Hera
- Dionysus and the Tyrrhenian Pirates
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn VII (to Dionysus)
- Ganymede Abducted by Zeus
Olympian gods / Trojan royal house · Homeric / Homeric Hymn / Apollodorean (eagle or gods; cupbearer; immortality)
- Anchises and Aphrodite (Homeric Hymn V)
Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Trojan ancestry · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (5) — full classical narrative
- Athena Invents the Aulos and Discards It
Olympian gods — Athena / musical aetiology · Classical aetiology (Athena invents and rejects the pipes; Marsyas finds them)
- Poseidon and Apollo Build the Walls of Troy (Homeric)
Olympian gods — Poseidon & Apollo / Trojan aetiology · Homeric — gods’ year of servitude to Laomedon; unpaid wage
- The Chest Cast into the Sea: Danaë and Perseus on Seriphos
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (Seriphean landing; Dictys as rescuer)
- Ninth Labor: Hippolyte’s Belt (Hera’s Rumor and the Death of the Queen)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Admete’s desire; Hippolyte first willing; Hera as Amazon spreads rumor; Heracles kills Hippolyte and takes the belt of Ares)
- Hesione Exposed at Troy: Heracles, Laomedon, and the Broken Bargain
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (attached to the homeward voyage after the Amazon labor; Apollo–Poseidon wages unpaid; sea-monster; Hesione; mares of Ganymede promised and refused; threat of later war)
- Sack of Troy: Laomedon Killed and Hesione Given to Telamon
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (post-Omphale expedition; Telamon and Oicles; walls scaled; Laomedon and sons slain; Priam spared; Hesione awarded to Telamon)
- Pyre on Mount Oeta: The Death of Heracles
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (Heracles carried to Oeta; pyre built; Philoctetes or Poeas lights it; bow bequeathed; mortal body consumed)
- Theseus and Pirithous: Abduction of Helen
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus and Pirithous seize youthful Helen; she is recovered by the Dioscuri)
- Thetis and the Invulnerability of Achilles (Styx / Fire Variants)
Heroes — Aeacid / Achilles childhood · Classical handbook and scholiastic variants (Styx; fire-and-ambrosia); Homeric Achilles is *not* invulnerable
- Achilles on Scyros: Odysseus’s Discovery
Heroes — Aeacid / Trojan muster prelude · Apollodorean / cyclic (*Cypria*) / tragic and handbook tradition (+ Statius Roman labeled for stage business)
- Thersander and the Epigoni Sack of Thebes
Heroes — Theban / Epigoni · Apollodorean / cyclic / Pausanian — Thersander as Polynices’ heir installed
- Diomedes after Thebes: Epigonus and Argive King
Heroes — Theban / Epigoni / Argive · Apollodorean / Homeric — Epigonus who becomes Trojan-war Argive leader
- Shade of Agamemnon Warns Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Atreid / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Agamemnon’s shade in the underworld consultation
- Shade of Achilles in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Achilles / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Achilles’ shade speaks with Odysseus
- Shade of Ajax Silent before Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Ajax Telamonian / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Ajax’s shade refuses speech in lingering wrath
- Philoctetes’ Isolation on Lemnos (Sophocles)
Heroes — Philoctetes / Trojan muster aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Philoctetes* (isolation and wound focus)
- Neoptolemus Kills Priam at the Altar of Zeus Herkeios
Heroes — Neoptolemus / Sack of Troy · Cyclic *Iliou Persis* / Apollodorean — Priam slain at the household altar
- Tenes of Tenedos
Heroes / Trojan periphery — Tenedian eponym / Achilles cycle · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cyclic notices — false accusation; exile; Achilles’ killing
- Cassandra and Apollo: Prophecy and the Broken Compact
Heroes / Trojan cycle periphery — Cassandra · Tragic / handbook — Apollo’s gift of prophecy; spit or refusal; disbelief curse
- Dardanus: Zeus, Electra, and the Founding of Dardania
Heroes — Trojan royal stemma / Dardanid origins · Apollodorean / Homeric genealogical — Dardanus son of Zeus and Electra (Atlas)
- Erichthonius and Tros: Wealth, Horses, and the Trojan Name
Heroes — Trojan royal stemma / middle generations · Apollodorean / Homeric — Erichthonius; Tros; naming of Trojans; horses of Zeus
- Assaracus, Capys, and Anchises: The Junior Trojan Stem
Heroes — Trojan royal stemma / Aeneas’s paternal line · Apollodorean / Homeric — Assaracus branch parallel to Ilus–Laomedon–Priam
- Aesacus and Hesperia (Ovid-Labeled)
Heroes — Trojan royal house / bird metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Trojan prince’s dive and seabird change; brief Greek genealogical notices of Aesacus
- Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: Eris and the Apple of Discord
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Pindaric wedding background)
- Judgment of Paris: Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
- Birth, Exposure, and Recognition of Paris
Trojan · Apollodorean / tragic-cyclic (Hecuba’s dream; Idaean exposure; athletic recognition)
- Abduction (Elopement) of Helen: Paris at Sparta
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Aphrodite’s gift; departure with treasure; Homeric regret vs. willing-flight noted)
- Telephus in Mysia: The First Landing Mistake
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Teuthrania taken for Troy; wound and later healing)
- Second Gathering; Philoctetes Abandoned on Lemnos
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Sophoclean wound-aetiology)
- Achilles’ Early Exploits in the Troad (Cypria)
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean summary level (raids before the *Iliad*)
- Troilus Slain by Achilles
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ tragic and archaic pictorial tradition)
- Trojans at the Ships; Patroclus Pleads for Achilles’ Armor
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 11–16 (compressed arc to Achilles’ concession)
- Penthesilea the Amazon; Achilles and Thersites
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ later classical Thersites episode)
- Memnon Son of Dawn: Achilles Kills Memnon
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
- Neoptolemus Fetched; Death of Paris by Philoctetes’ Bow
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
- Aeneas’s Escape from Troy (Greek Notices; Vergil Labeled)
Trojan — Sack aftermath / western foundation legend · Homeric / cyclic / Apollodorean Greek notices + **Roman** Vergilian expansion labeled
- Achilles and Helen Meet (Cypria)
Trojan — Cypria interlude · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus)
- Epeius Builds the Wooden Horse
Trojan — Sack prelude / wooden horse · Epic Cycle / Homeric reminiscence / Apollodorean (Epeius as builder; Athena’s aid)
- Capture of Helenus and the Prophecies of Troy’s Fall
Trojan — Little Iliad / late-war oracles · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Helenus seized; conditions of capture named)
- Theft of the Palladium (Diomedes and Odysseus)
Trojan — Little Iliad / sack prelude · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / Apollodorean (Diomedes and Odysseus steal Athena’s image)
- Bones of Pelops Brought to Troy
Trojan — Little Iliad / fall requirements · Apollodorean / cyclic handbook (Pelops’s bones among the conditions of capture)
- Deiphobus Marries Helen; Death in the Sack
Trojan — Priamid / sack · Epic Cycle (*Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis*) / Apollodorean / Vergilian enrichment (labeled where Roman)
- Heroes Inside the Wooden Horse (Catalogue)
Trojan — Sack prelude / wooden horse · Epic Cycle / Homeric reminiscence / Apollodorean; Vergilian list labeled Roman
- Helen and Paris: First Night under Aphrodite
Trojan — abduction / Aphrodite’s gift · Homeric (*Iliad* 3 bed scene as paradigm) + Cypria/Apollodorean elopement context
- Oenone and Paris: Abandonment, Refused Healing, Death
Trojan — Paris’s first love / death appendix · Apollodorean / Hellenistic–tragic (Oenone as healer-nymph)
- Andromache Allotted to Neoptolemus after the Sack
Trojan — Sack / division of spoils · Epic Cycle / Euripidean / Apollodorean
- Hecuba Allotted to Odysseus
Trojan — Sack / division of spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean
- Division of the Trojan Women: Brief Allotments
Trojan — Sack / spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean / cyclic
- Ascanius (Iulus): Brief Greek Notices
Trojan — Aeneas’s line / aftermath · Homeric / Hymnic / Apollodorean / Hellanican (Greek notices; Roman Iulus labeled)
- Idomeneus and the Vow (Human Sacrifice / Exile)
Trojan — Nostoi / Cretan return · Apollodorean / Servian–handbook nostos (vow; plague; exile)
- Ajax Telamonian: Tomb and Cult
Trojan — Ajax aftermath / hero cult · Homeric / cyclic / Pausanian / local Rhoetean
- Apollo as Agenor: Decoy That Lures Achilles from the Walls (*Iliad* 21–22)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / lead-in to Hector’s death · Homeric (*Iliad* 21.544–611; transition into 22)
- Zeus Forbids the Gods to Fight (*Iliad* 8)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 8 · Homeric — Zeus’s ban on divine intervention
- Hera and Athena Blocked by Zeus (*Iliad* 8)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 8 · Homeric — armed descent aborted by Zeus’s threat
- Hera’s Deception of Zeus on Ida (Dios Apate, *Iliad* 14)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 14 · Homeric — Dios apate (the Deception of Zeus)
- Poseidon Challenges Apollo: Theomachy over Troy’s Walls (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Poseidon vs. Apollo (verbal challenge; Apollo declines)
- Hera Bribes Hypnos to Lull Zeus (*Iliad* 14)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Dios apate prelude · Homeric — Sleep’s fear of Zeus; promise of Pasithea; lull on Ida
- The Memnonides: Birds from Memnon’s Pyre
Trojan — Memnon aftermath / bird metamorphosis · Ovid-labeled Roman — cinders become fighting birds; annual memorial
- Midas: The Golden Touch and the Ass’s Ears
Local and lesser — Phrygian · Roman handbook / Ovidian narrative of Greek Phrygian legends (labeled); Herodotus on historical Midas noted
- Attis and Cybele (Classical Greek Notices)
Local and lesser — Phrygian cult in Greek reception · Classical Greek notices of a Phrygian myth; fuller narrative often Hellenistic/Roman—labeled where not Archaic Greek
- Hermaphroditus and Salmacis
Local and lesser — Carian spring metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek cult/toponym of Salmacis at Halicarnassus
- Silenus Captured by Midas (Phrygian)
Local and lesser — Phrygian / Dionysiac · Classical Greek notices + handbook; Ovid/Hyginus labeled for continuous narrative link to the golden touch
- Apollo vs Pan: Musical Contest (Midas Judge)
Local and lesser — Phrygian / musical contest · Roman transmission (Ovid) of the Tmolus contest — separate from the thin ass-ears summary in 003 and from Apollo–Marsyas (02/016)
- Atys and Adrastus: Death of Croesus’s Son (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian / Herodotus legends · Herodotean — dream, boar-hunt, accidental spear-kill
- The Idaean Dactyls
Local and lesser — Cretan / Phrygian metalworkers / Rhea’s attendants · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / Pausanian / Strabo — Dactyls as first ironworkers and mystic helpers
- Gordius and the Gordian Knot
Local and lesser — Phrygian foundation / Alexander omen · Arrianic / Plutarchan — peasant-king; wagon knot; Alexander’s cut or loosing
- Agdistis of Phrygia
Local and lesser — Phrygian aetiology / Mother of the Gods / Attis cycle prelude · Pausanian Lydian–Phrygian — bisexual earth-born Agdistis; almond; Attis