Book XI · Episode 2 of 6
Mother and the Heroines
Odysseus embraces mother’s shade in vain
Scenes
- Reunion with Anticleia — Anticleia reports on family, eludes embrace
- Odysseus explains he came seeking Tiresias
- His wife weeps within his halls
- Telemachus now runs the estate
- His father lives in poverty, mourning him
- Her shade slips like a shadow
- Tyro’s Line — Odysseus meets Tyro, who bore Neleus
- Women come forward one by one
- Tyro loves the river-god Enipeus
- Poseidon takes the river’s form
- He hides them in an arching wave
- Aeson, Pheres, Amythaon born to Cretheus
- Theban and Pylian Queens — Antiope, Alcmena, Megara, Epicaste, Chloris
- Antiope boasts of lying with Zeus
- Alcmena bears Heracles to Zeus
- Megara is Creion’s daughter, Heracles’ wife
- Epicaste unknowingly weds son Oedipus
- Winning Pero costs a year in fetters
- Further Heroines — Leda and Iphidameia pass by night
- Castor and Polydeuces share life and death
- Otus, Ephialtes threaten to pile Ossa
- Zeus and Leto’s son kill them
- Artemis slays Ariadne at Dionysus’ word
- Eriphyle sells her husband for gold