Center for Hellenic Studies - Proclus' Summary of the Nostoi lyrics

Proclus' Summary of the Nostoi, attributed to Agias of Trozen [The Nostoi (Songs of Homecoming), in five books, follows the Ilioupersis.] [1] Athena causes a quarrel between Agamemnon and Menelaos about the voyage from Troy. Agamemnon then stays on to appease the anger of Athena. Diomedes and Nestor set sail and arrive back home safely. After them, Menelaos sets sail. [5] He reaches Egypt with five ships, the rest having been lost in a storm at sea. Meanwhile, those who followed Kalkhas and Leonteus and Polypoites travel by land to Kolophon, and they arrange a funeral for Teiresias, who died there. As for those who followed Agamemnon, the image [eidōlon] of Achilles appeared to them as they were sailing off, and it tried to prevent them from going on by prophesying future events. Then the storm at the rocks called Kapherides is described, [10] and the destruction of Locrian Ajax. Neoptolemos, warned by Thetis, makes his journey by land, and, coming to Thrace, meets Odysseus at Maroneia, and then finishes the rest of his journey, after arranging a funeral for Phoinix [Phoenix], who dies along the way. [15] He himself arrives in the land of the Molossoi and is recognized by Peleus. Then comes the murder of Agamemnon by Aigisthos [Aegisthus] and Klytaimestra [Clytemnestra] and the vengeance of Orestes and the safe return of Menelaos.