Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

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• Primordial Beginnings: Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Birth of Aphrodite from the Foam
  Cosmogony / Theogony (cosmogonic birth) · Hesiodic (foam-born; distinct from Homeric “daughter of Zeus and Dione”)
• Reign of Cronus, the Swallowing of the Children, and the Birth of Zeus
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean Cretan enrichment clearly marked)
• Zeus’s Rise: Liberation of the Siblings and First Allies
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean detail on Metis’s drug and Cyclopes’ gifts)
• The Titanomachy
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Imprisonment of the Titans and the Warders of Tartarus
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Typhoeus Against Zeus (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
• Typhon Against Zeus (Apollodorus)
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Apollodorean (substantially different combat narrative from Hesiodic Typhoeus)
• Division of the Cosmos among Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Homeric / Apollodorean (lots among the three brothers)
• Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
• Prometheus: The Trick at Mecone, the Theft of Fire, and His Binding
  Cosmogony / Theogony (divine–human settlement) · Hesiodic (merged *Theogony* and *Works and Days* fire narrative; woman-as-price summarized here; jar episode in separate Pandora entry)
• Pandora and the Jar
  Cosmogony / Theogony (origins of human ills) · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* (named Pandora; jar/pithos of evils; Hope remaining)
• Birth of the Erinyes, Giants, and Meliae from the Blood of Uranus
  Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (aftermath of the castration; extracted as its own short entry for the blood-born host)
• 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)
• The Gigantomachy: Full Battle (Apollodorus)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian defense of the cosmos · Apollodorean catalogue battle (full divine pairings; Heracles as mortal ally)
• Orphic Cosmogony (Brief — Distinct Tradition Note)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic tradition (not Hesiodic main line) · Orphic / late classical–Hellenistic notices (labeled distinct from Hesiod)
• Hecate’s Privileges (Hesiodic)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian settlement / goddess of crossroads · Hesiodic (*Theogony* hymn to Hecate)
• Orphic Anthropogony: Titans, Soot, and Humankind
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic tradition (anthropogony) · Orphic (labeled distinct from Hesiodic ages); late classical–Neoplatonic reports
• Children of Nyx (Hesiodic Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night and her brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Night’s offspring)
• Children of Pontus (Hesiodic Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Sea’s brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Pontus’s offspring)
• Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Flood and the Stones
  Cosmogony / Theogony — flood anthropogony (Hellenic renewal) · Apollodorean (main handbook flood; Parnassus; “bones of the mother”)
• Prometheus Creates Humankind (Later Tradition)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — anthropogony (Promethean craft) · Later classical / handbook tradition (distinct from Orphic soot and from Hesiodic ages)
• Oceanus, Tethys, and the Oceanids (Hesiodic Overview)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / watery catalogue · Hesiodic catalogue
• Offspring of Echidna and Typhon (Hesiodic Monster Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — monster genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue (*Theogony* Typhonid brood)
• Nereus and the Nereids (Hesiodic / Apollodorean Catalogue)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Pontus’s line / sea nymphs · Hesiodic catalogue (+ Apollodorean Nereid list)
• Iris the Messenger (Iliad)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — divine agents / Olympian household · Homeric (*Iliad*) — Iris as go-between; Hesiodic genealogy noted
• Birth of the Muses (Mnemosyne and Zeus)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian generation / arts · Hesiodic
• Asteria Becomes Delos (Ortygia)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / Delian aetiology · Apollodorean / Callimachean / mythographic (quail / star → island)
• Atlas Condemned to Hold the Heavens
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan punishment · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (sky-burden as Zeus’s sentence after the Titan war)
• Styx and the Gods’ Oath (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — divine law / river of oath · Hesiodic — Styx’s water as the immortals’ binding oath
• Phorcys and Ceto: Graeae, Gorgons, and Sea-Monster Genealogy
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Phorcid sea-monster line · Hesiodic — Phorcys–Ceto brood (zoom on Graeae/Gorgons)
• Children of Iapetus: Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, Epimetheus
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue of Iapetus and Clymene
• Hyperion and Theia: Helios, Selene, and Eos
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan luminous genealogy · Hesiodic — Hyperion–Theia brood
• Coeus and Phoebe: Leto and Asteria
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan oracular / Delian line · Hesiodic — Coeus–Phoebe daughters
• Crius and Eurybia: Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan genealogy · Hesiodic — Crius–Eurybia brood and their children
• Hecate’s Parentage: Asteria and Perses (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan line / Hecate · Hesiodic — birth from Perses and Asteria
• Birth of the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — children of Gaia and Uranus · Hesiodic — three Cyclopes and three Hundred-Handers before the Titans’ castration-plot
• Children of Eris (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — personified ills · Hesiodic — Eris’s brood in the *Theogony* (with *Works and Days* double-Eris background)
• Hephaestus Born of Hera Alone (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian generation · Hesiodic — Hera’s parthenogenic birth of Hephaestus in anger at Zeus
• Rhea’s Stone: Cronus Swallowing the Omphalos-Substitute
  Cosmogony / Theogony — birth of Zeus / Delphic aetiology · Hesiodic (+ Pausanian Delphic omphalos notice)
• The Moirae as Daughters of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Fates · Hesiodic — Moirae born of Nyx (parallel to Zeus–Themis line)
• The Keres: Death-Spirits of Night (Hesiod and Homer)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / battlefield death · Hesiodic catalogue + Homeric battlefield Keres
• Geras: Old Age, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified old age · Hesiodic — Geras among Nyx’s children
• Hypnos and Thanatos: Sleep and Death, Children of Night
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Sleep and Death · Hesiodic genealogy (+ Homeric twin imagery)
• Momus: Blame, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified blame · Hesiodic — Momos among Nyx’s children
• Nemesis: Daughter of Night (Hesiodic Birth)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / divine retribution · Hesiodic — Nemesis as Night’s daughter (genealogy only)
• Oizys: Distress, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified distress · Hesiodic — Oizys (Distress/Woe) among Nyx’s children
• Apate: Deceit, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified deceit · Hesiodic — Apate (Deceit) among Nyx’s children
• Philotes: Affection, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified affection · Hesiodic — Philotes (Affection / sexual love) among Nyx’s children
• Moros: Doom, Child of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified doom · Hesiodic — Moros (Doom) among Nyx’s first-born
• The Oneiroi: Dreams, Children of Night (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Dreams · Hesiodic — the tribe of Dreams (Oneiroi) born of Nyx
• Eris: Discord, Child of Night (Hesiodic Birth)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Strife · Hesiodic — Eris (Strife) as Night’s daughter (genealogy only)
• Erebus and Nyx: Birth of Aether and Hemera
  Cosmogony / Theogony — primordial pairs / Day and bright air · Hesiodic — Aether and Day born of Night and Erebus
• Rhea, Amalthea, and the Curetes in Crete
  Cosmogony / Theogony — birth and hiding of Zeus · Apollodorean Cretan enrichment (+ Hesiodic Crete notice)
• Briareus–Aegaeon Summoned by Thetis (*Iliad* 1)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hecatoncheires in Homeric narrative · Homeric — Thetis’s rescue of Zeus; Briareus called Aegaeon by men
• Two Kinds of Eris (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic ethics / personified Strife · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* distinction of good and bad Eris
• The Hawk and the Nightingale (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic didactic fable / justice · Hesiodic — animal fable (*ainos*) addressed to kings
• Dike and the Just City (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic ethics / Justice · Hesiodic — Dike among mortals; just vs unjust cities
• The Topography of Tartarus (Hesiod)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld geography / cosmic architecture · Hesiodic — Tartarus’s measures, gates, and residents beyond Titan imprisonment alone
• The Days of Zeus (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic calendar / sacred days · Hesiodic — lucky and unlucky days of the month as Zeus’s ordinance
• Seafaring and the Pleiades (*Works and Days*)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic star-lore / seafaring · Hesiodic — Pleiades, Sirius, and the season for ships
• Ophion and Eurynome: Alternative Primordial Rule
  Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic / early alternative pair · Orphic / Apollonian (Orpheus’s song) — Ophion and Eurynome before Cronus and Rhea
• Birth of Geryon: Chrysaor and Callirhoe
  Cosmogony / Theogony — monstrous genealogy / Geryon’s origin · Hesiodic — Chrysaor and Oceanid Callirhoe beget three-bodied Geryon
• Ascalaphus Turned into an Owl
  Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld daimones / Demeter’s vengeance · Apollodorean (+ Ovid-labeled Roman enrichment) — orchard-witness of the pomegranate; Demeter (or Persephone) makes him an owl
• Ate and the Litai (Prayers)
  Cosmogony / Theogony — moral personifications / Homeric theology · Homeric — Phoenix’s allegory of Ate and the Litai inside *Iliad* 9
• Birth of Athena from Zeus’s Head (Metis Swallowed)
  Olympian gods · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (same Metis-swallowing lineage; birth-delivery detail from Apollodorus and related classical notices)
• Birth of Apollo (and Artemis) on Delos
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn — Delian (standard Delian birth of Apollo; Artemis noted at Ortygia)
• Birth and Early Exploits of Hermes: Cattle Theft, Lyre, and Reconciliation with Apollo
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Hermes
• Birth of Dionysus: Semele, the Thunderbolt, and Zeus’s Thigh
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean / tragic (common classical Semele–thigh birth; Euripidean background)
• Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter
• Aphrodite as Daughter of Zeus and Dione
  Olympian gods · Homeric (Olympian parentage; distinct from Hesiodic foam-birth)
• Hephaestus Cast from Heaven by Hera
  Olympian gods · Homeric — Hera casts the lame child (Iliad 18)
• Hephaestus Cast from Heaven by Zeus
  Olympian gods · Homeric / Apollodorean — Zeus casts Hephaestus for defending Hera
• Hephaestus’s Revenge: The Golden Throne and Return to Olympus
  Olympian gods · Pausanian / Attic pictorial (with Hyginus transmitting a related Greek comic strand)
• Ares and Aphrodite Caught by Hephaestus
  Olympian gods · Homeric — Demodocus’s song in *Odyssey* 8
• Athena and Poseidon Contest for Athens
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean / Attic (Pausanian landmarks)
• Artemis and Actaeon
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean “general opinion” (bathing / stag metamorphosis), with Callimachus as earliest surviving poetic parallel; Acusilaus–Stesichorus Semele-rival strand noted
• Apollo, the Python, and the Founding of Delphi
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn (Pythian) / Apollodorean
• Hermes as Psychopomp: Leading the Suitors’ Shades
  Olympian gods · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24
• Apollo and Daphne
  Olympian gods · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Greek metamorphosis; Greek notices (Parthenius; Pausanias local laurel) thinner than Ovid’s full plot
• Apollo and Marsyas
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean / Pausanian (musical contest; flaying); Hellenistic and pictorial enrichment
• Artemis and Callisto
  Olympian gods · Apollodorean Arcadian (Zeus; bear metamorphosis; Arcas; constellation notes)
• Demeter and Triptolemus: The Gift of Grain
  Olympian gods / Eleusinian · Apollodorean / Pausanian Eleusinian (mission of Triptolemus); Homeric Hymn foundation noted as rite-only
• Dionysus and the Tyrrhenian Pirates
  Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn VII (to Dionysus)
• Zeus and Io
  Olympian gods / Argive · Apollodorean Argive (cow; Argus; gadfly; Egypt; Epaphus); Aeschylean tragic enrichment
• Zeus and Leda: Helen and the Dioscuri
  Olympian gods / Spartan / Trojan gateway · Apollodorean / Homeric (swan; eggs; dual paternity of Dioscuri and Helen)
• Apollo and Hyacinthus
  Olympian gods / Spartan-Amyclaean · Apollodorean / Pausanian Amyclaean (discus; flower; cult)
• Hermes Kills Argus (Argeiphontes)
  Olympian gods / Argive · Apollodorean Argive exploit (Hermes as Argus-slayer); Aeschylean / Ovidian scenic enrichment labeled where Roman
• Hera and Ixion: The Cloud and the Birth of Centaurus
  Olympian gods / Thessalian crime and punishment · Pindaric / Apollodorean (Nephele; Centaurus; wheel)
• Poseidon and Demeter: Areion and Despoina
  Olympian gods / Arcadian mystery cult · Pausanian Arcadian (Thelpusa / Lycosura); Apollodorean black Demeter notice
• Athena and Arachne
  Olympian gods / Lydian metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) — fullest contest narrative; Greek notices of Athena as weaving patron thinner
• Asclepius: Birth from Coronis; Death by Zeus; Apollo’s Revenge on the Cyclopes
  Olympian gods / Asclepiad · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Coronis; crow; thunderbolt; Cyclopes; servitude to Admetus)
• Dioscuri: Castor’s Death and Shared Immortality
  Olympian gods / Spartan Dioscuri · Homeric / Pindaric / Apollodorean (cattle raid; Idas and Lynceus; alternate days)
• Erichthonius: Hephaestus, Athena, and the Cecropids
  Olympian gods / Attic foundation · Apollodorean / Attic (Hephaestus’s attempt; earth-born child; daughters of Cecrops)
• Apollo as Admetus’s Herdsman (Alcestis Setup)
  Olympian gods / Thessalian · Apollodorean / Euripidean prologue (servitude after Cyclopes; herds prosper; Fate-bargain)
• Ganymede Abducted by Zeus
  Olympian gods / Trojan royal house · Homeric / Homeric Hymn / Apollodorean (eagle or gods; cupbearer; immortality)
• Phaethon and the Sun Chariot
  Olympian gods / Helios · Euripidean fragments + Roman transmission (Ovid) of the sun-chariot fall
• Ino–Leucothea and Melicertes–Palaemon
  Olympian gods — Dionysiac family / sea-cult · Apollodorean / Homeric (Ino as Leucothea in *Odyssey*); tragic Athamas madness
• Anchises and Aphrodite (Homeric Hymn V)
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Trojan ancestry · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (5) — full classical narrative
• Pan and Syrinx (Ovid-labeled)
  Olympian gods / rustic — Pan · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek Arcadian aetion for the panpipes (*syrinx*)
• Echo and Narcissus (Ovid Line)
  Olympian gods / local metamorphosis — Echo; Narcissus · Roman transmission (Ovid) — Echo cursed by Hera; composite with Narcissus (distinct from Pausanias’s Thespian Narcissus)
• Dionysus and Lycurgus
  Olympian gods — Dionysus · Homeric (*Iliad* 6) / Apollodorean (Edonian persecution; madness; pruning shears)
• Dionysus and the Minyads
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / Boeotian resistance · Ovidian Roman narrative (+ Aelian / Plutarch / Antoninus Liberalis Greek notices of the daughters of Minyas)
• The Proetides: Madness and Melampus’s Cure
  Olympian gods / Argive — Hera or Dionysus; Melampus cross-link · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* (Proetides; Melampus’s bargain for Argos)
• Coronis and the Crow (Raven): The Informant Bird
  Olympian gods / Asclepiad prelude · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue*; Ovid-labeled Roman for white-to-black color change
• Poseidon and Tyro: The Enipeus Deception; Birth of Pelias and Neleus
  Olympian gods / Aeolid heroic prelude · Homeric (*Odyssey* 11) / Apollodorean
• Hera Suckling Heracles: Aetiology of the Milky Way
  Olympian gods / Heracles infancy · Late classical notices (Diodorus; Pausanias; scholia; Hyginus) — aetiology of the galaxy (*galaxias*)
• Athena and Pallas: Childhood Friend and the Aegis
  Olympian gods / Athena · Apollodorean / Pausanian (Libyan or Tritonian childhood; accidental killing; aegis from skin)
• Hera and Poseidon: The Contest for Argos
  Olympian gods / Argive foundation · Pausanian Argive (divine contest; river-gods as judges)
• Apollo’s Hyperborean Sojourn
  Olympian gods / Apollo — Hyperborean myth · Pindaric / Herodotus / Delphic–Delian classical notices
• Birth of Pan (Homeric Hymn 19)
  Olympian gods / rustic — Pan · Homeric Hymn to Pan (19)
• Hecate in Demeter’s Search (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Hecate · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (torch-bearing companion)
• Helios Tells Demeter about Persephone
  Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Helios · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Helios as all-seeing revealer)
• Dionysus and Ariadne: Marriage on Naxos (Olympian View)
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / Ariadne · Hesiodic marriage + Apollodorean / Pausanian Naxos epiphany (olympian bridal focus)
• Marriage of Hephaestus and Aphrodite
  Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Aphrodite · Homeric marital pairing (beyond the net-song) / handbook olympian household
• Athena Invents the Aulos and Discards It
  Olympian gods — Athena / musical aetiology · Classical aetiology (Athena invents and rejects the pipes; Marsyas finds them)
• Apollo, Marpessa, and Idas
  Olympian gods — Apollo / mortal love contest · Homeric / Apollodorean (Idas vs. Apollo; Marpessa’s choice)
• Poseidon and Medusa in Athena’s Temple
  Olympian gods — Poseidon / Athena / Gorgon origin · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek temple-violation curse aetiology
• Athena and Medusa: The Beauty Curse (Handbook Variant)
  Olympian gods — Athena / Gorgon aetiology · Apollodorean minority notice / handbook beauty-challenge
• Zeus Hangs Hera with Anvils (Iliad)
  Olympian gods — Zeus / Hera conflict · Homeric (*Iliad* recalled punishment)
• Hephaestus and Charis (Iliad Marriage)
  Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Charites · Homeric (*Iliad*) / Hesiodic (Aglaia)
• Ares and Halirrhothius: Trial on the Areopagus
  Olympian gods — Ares / Attic aetiology · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic (first murder trial; Areopagus named)
• Poseidon and Halirrhothius (Father of the Victim)
  Olympian gods — Poseidon / Attic · Apollodorean / Atthidographic (Poseidon as avenging father)
• Hermes’ First Sacrifice (Homeric Hymn to Hermes)
  Olympian gods — Hermes · Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4) — Alpheius sacrifice isolated
• Apollo and Hermes: Friendship and Pact (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Apollo / Hermes · Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4) — reconciliation and gift-exchange isolated
• Zeus and Themis: The Hours and the Fates (Hesiod)
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / order and law · Hesiodic
• Mnemosyne, Titaness of Memory
  Olympian gods — Titan generation / memory and song · Hesiodic / Orphic-adjacent cult notices
• Leto’s Wanderings Seeking a Birthplace (before Delos)
  Olympian gods — Leto / birth of Apollo and Artemis · Homeric Hymn / Apollodorean / Callimachean enrichment
• Dione Comforts Wounded Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Dione · Homeric (*Iliad* 5) — maternal consolation on Olympus after Diomedes’ wound
• Styx Allies Zeus: Nike, Kratos, Bia, and Zelos
  Olympian gods — divine household / Titanomachy rewards · Hesiodic — Styx’s primacy and her children’s seats beside Zeus
• Iris Fetches the Water of Styx for Oaths (Hesiod)
  Olympian gods — Iris / divine ritual · Hesiodic — Iris as bearer of Styx-water when gods swear
• Binding of Prometheus (Aeschylean)
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s order / Prometheus · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Prometheus Bound* (distinct from Hesiodic binding)
• Demeter Nurses Demophon: Celeus and Metaneira (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Demeter / Eleusinian prelude · Homeric Hymn to Demeter — Demophon episode (distinct from Triptolemus grain-mission)
• Dionysus Retrieves Semele from Hades
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / apotheosis of Semele · Apollodorean / Pausanian — descent and renaming as Thyone
• Zeus and Eurynome: Birth of the Charites (Graces)
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / Charites · Hesiodic — Eurynome daughter of Oceanus
• Persephone Eats the Pomegranate: The Return Bargain
  Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone · Homeric Hymn to Demeter — pomegranate seed and compromise
• Zeus and Maia: Parentage of Hermes
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s loves / birth of Hermes · Hesiodic / Homeric Hymn — Maia in the cave of Cyllene
• Hermes Steals Apollo’s Cattle (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Hermes / Apollo · Homeric Hymn to Hermes — cattle-theft isolated from birth and lyre-invention
• Dionysus Turns the Pirates into Dolphins (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Dionysus · Homeric Hymn VII — metamorphosis climax isolated
• Apollo and the Spring Telphusa (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Apollo / Delphic foundation · Homeric Hymn (Pythian) — Telphusa’s deceit before the Python
• Hestia: Virgin Privilege and the Hearth
  Olympian gods — Hestia · Homeric Hymns — eternal virginity; first and last libations; hearth privilege
• Zeus and Nemesis: The Egg of Helen (*Cypria*)
  Olympian gods / Trojan prelude — parentage of Helen · Cyclic — *Cypria* (Nemesis pursued; egg; Leda as foster-mother)
• Poseidon and Helios Contest for Corinth
  Olympian gods / Corinthian aetiology · Pausanian — Briareos arbitrates; Isthmus to Poseidon, Acrocorinth height to Helios
• Demeter and Iasion: Birth of Plutos (Hesiod)
  Olympian gods — Demeter / agricultural wealth · Hesiodic / Homeric — thrice-ploughed field; Plutos; Zeus’s bolt on Iasion
• Aphrodite and Adonis: Love and Death by the Boar (Classical)
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Adonis · Apollodorean / mythographic classical (vs. Bion’s lament)
• Hermes, Herse, and Aglauros (Ovid-Labeled)
  Olympian gods — Hermes / Attic Cecropid sisters · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Attic Cecropid jealousy tale; Greek notices of Herse and Aglauros background
• Hermes Invents the Lyre (Homeric Hymn)
  Olympian gods — Hermes / music · Homeric Hymn to Hermes — lyre invention isolated
• Zeus Abducts Aegina
  Olympian gods — Zeus’s loves / Aeginetan foundation · Apollodorean / Pindaric — eagle or pursuit; Asopus’s search
• Phobos and Deimos: Children of Ares
  Olympian gods — Ares / personified war-terrors · Hesiodic / Homeric — Fear and Terror as Ares’s sons and attendants
• Eileithyia: Goddess of Childbirth
  Olympian gods — Hera’s daughter / birth-aid · Hesiodic / Homeric — Eileithyia (or Eileithyiae) as birth-goddess
• The Aloadae: Otus and Ephialtes against the Gods
  Olympian gods — early threats to Olympus / Poseidon’s line · Homeric / Apollodorean (Aloadae; binding of Ares; assault on heaven)
• Poseidon and Amphitrite: Marriage of the Sea-Queen
  Olympian gods — Poseidon / Nereid queenship · Hesiodic genealogy + Apollodorean / handbook marriage; Delphinus aid
• Artemis Asks Zeus for Eternal Virginity (Callimachus)
  Olympian gods — Artemis / childhood petition · Callimachean Hymn — child Artemis’s boons from Zeus
• Poseidon and Apollo Build the Walls of Troy (Homeric)
  Olympian gods — Poseidon & Apollo / Trojan aetiology · Homeric — gods’ year of servitude to Laomedon; unpaid wage
• Apollo and Cyrene: The Huntress and the Birth of Aristaeus (Pindar)
  Olympian gods — Apollo / Libyan–Thessalian foundation · Pindaric — Apollo’s love for Cyrene; Aristaeus born; Libya allotted
• Britomartis–Dictynna: The Cretan Chase and the Nets
  Olympian gods / Cretan local — companion of Artemis · Callimachean / Pausanian Cretan — Britomartis flees Minos; nets; Dictynna
• Thetis’s Prophecy: Zeus and Poseidon Renounce Her
  Olympian gods — Zeus / Poseidon / Thetis; Achillean prelude · Pindaric / Apollodorean — son destined to be mightier than his father
• Hebe: Cupbearer of the Gods
  Olympian gods — Hebe / divine household service · Homeric / Hesiodic — Hebe pours nectar; later wife of Heracles
• Iris and the Harpies: Children of Thaumas
  Olympian gods / sea-born messengers — Thaumas’s line · Hesiodic — Iris and the Harpies as siblings from Thaumas and Electra
• Homeric Hymn to Helios (31)
  Olympian gods — Helios / solar hymn · Homeric Hymn XXXI — praise and genealogy of the Sun
• Homeric Hymn to Selene (32)
  Olympian gods — Selene / lunar hymn · Homeric Hymn XXXII — praise of the Moon; birth of Pandia
• Homeric Hymn to Poseidon (22)
  Olympian gods — Poseidon / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXII — praise of the Earth-shaker
• Homeric Hymn to Hephaestus (20)
  Olympian gods — Hephaestus / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XX — praise of the craftsman god with Athena
• Homeric Hymn to Heracles the Lion-Hearted (15)
  Olympian gods / heroes — Heracles / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XV — birth, labours summary, Olympian seat
• Homeric Hymn to Earth Mother of All (30)
  Olympian / primordial — Gaia / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXX — praise of Earth as mother of all
• Homeric Hymn to Ares (8)
  Olympian gods — Ares / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn VIII — praise and ethical petition to Ares
• Homeric Hymns to Artemis (9 and 27)
  Olympian gods — Artemis / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns IX and XXVII — praise of the huntress; Delian and Olympian close
• Homeric Hymns to Athena (11 and 28)
  Olympian gods — Athena / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns XI and XXVIII — city-protector praise; birth from Zeus’s head
• Homeric Hymns to the Dioscuri (17 and 33)
  Olympian gods — Dioscuri / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns XVII and XXXIII — Tyndarids as horse-tamers and saviors of sailors
• Homeric Hymn to Asclepius (16)
  Olympian gods / heroes — Asclepius / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XVI — birth from Apollo and Coronis; healer of disease
• Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (26)
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXVI — Nysean nurses; ivy and woodland rearing
• Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (1) — Fragment
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / fragmentary Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn I — disputed birthplaces; Zeus and the god’s glory
• Homeric Hymns to Aphrodite (6 and 10)
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns VI and X — foam-born Cyprian praise; Theban/Cytherean cult titles
• Homeric Hymn to Hera (12)
  Olympian gods — Hera / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XII — praise of Hera as queenly sister-wife of Zeus
• Homeric Hymn to Demeter (13)
  Olympian gods — Demeter / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XIII — brief praise of Demeter and Persephone
• Homeric Hymn to the Mother of the Gods (14)
  Olympian gods / Phrygian reception — Mother of the Gods / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XIV — praise of the Mother with castanets, tympana, and wolves
• Homeric Hymn to Hermes (18)
  Olympian gods — Hermes / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XVIII — brief birth praise of Cyllenian Hermes
• Homeric Hymn to Apollo (21)
  Olympian gods — Apollo / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXI — Apollo as swan-sung archer of the far range
• Homeric Hymn to Zeus (23)
  Olympian gods — Zeus / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXIII — brief praise of Zeus as counsel and Themis’s consort
• Homeric Hymns to Hestia (24 and 29)
  Olympian gods — Hestia / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns XXIV and XXIX — hearth virgin; first and last libations with Hermes
• Homeric Hymn to the Muses and Apollo (25)
  Olympian gods — Muses / Apollo / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXV — from the Muses and Apollo come singers and lyre-players
• Apollo and the Cretan Sailors: Founding Delphi’s Priesthood
  Olympian gods — Apollo / Delphic foundation · Homeric Hymn (Pythian) — Cretans from Knossos led to Pytho as first priests
• Birth of Chiron: Cronus and Philyra
  Olympian gods / Titan periphery — Chiron’s origin · Apollodorean / Hellenistic handbook — Cronus as horse; Philyra; centaur sage
• Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Aeacus: Judges of the Dead
  Olympian gods / underworld order — judicial afterlife · Homeric / Platonic / Apollodorean — three mortal kings as underworld judges
• The Aloadae Bind Ares in a Bronze Jar
  Olympian gods — Ares / Aloadae humiliation · Homeric digression (*Iliad* 5) — Otus and Ephialtes imprison Ares thirteen months
• Lampetie and Phaethusa: Keepers of Helios’s Cattle
  Olympian gods — Helios / Thrinacian herds · Homeric — nymph daughters of Helios who tend the immortal cattle and sheep
• Eos Abducts Cleitus
  Olympian gods — Eos / mortal beloveds · Homeric — brief Odyssean notice of Cleitus among Dawn’s snatched youths
• Minthe Trampled by Persephone
  Olympian gods — Persephone / Hades / plant aetiology · Strabonian / Oppianic Greek + Ovid-labeled Roman — river-nymph rival; mint plant
• Aphrodite, Phaon, and the Lesbian Ferryman
  Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Lesbian local legend · Classical prose notices (Aelian / Servius / Palaephatus strand) — ferry gift; youth restored; Sappho leap as later attachment
• Hippocrene: Pegasus and the Muses’ Spring
  Olympian gods — Muses / Heliconian cult topography · Hesiodic naming + Pausanian aetiology — horse’s hoof opens the spring
• Macris Nurses Dionysus on Euboea
  Olympian gods — Dionysus / Euboean nymph nursing · Apollonian — Macris daughter of Aristaeus shelters and honeys the infant god
• Bendis: Thracian Artemis in Athens
  Olympian gods / Thracian cult in Attica — Bendis · Classical Attic reception — Bendideia at Piraeus; Plato’s dramatic date
• Acrisius, Danaë, and the Bronze Chamber: Conception of Perseus
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (Argive oracle; Zeus as golden rain)
• The Chest Cast into the Sea: Danaë and Perseus on Seriphos
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (Seriphean landing; Dictys as rescuer)
• Polydectes’s Demand: Hermes and Athena Equip Perseus
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (wedding-gift trick; divine guides and gear)
• Visit to the Graeae and the Nymphs
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (shared eye and tooth; path to the nymphs)
• Beheading of Medusa: Birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Hesiodic enrichment (Medusa mortal; Pegasus and Chrysaor from the neck)
• Andromeda and the Sea-Monster (Ethiopia)
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean Ethiopian (Cepheus’s Aethiopia; Ammon’s oracle; Phineus petrified)
• Return to Seriphos: Petrification of Polydectes; Dictys Made King
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean (altar refuge; palace petrification; Athena’s shield)
• Return to Argos and Larissa: Death of Acrisius by the Discus
  Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean (+ Pausanian Argive enrichment; exchange of kingdoms)
• Andromeda at Joppa: Local Palestinian Localization
  Heroes — Perseus · Local Joppa / Iope (classical travel and geographic notices vs. Apollodorean Ethiopia)
• Birth of Heracles: Amphitryon, Alcmene, Zeus; Hera’s Delay; the Snakes
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Theban birth; Zeus’s prolonged night; Eurystheus preferred by Hera’s trick)
• Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
• Madness of Heracles: Murder of the Children (Apollodorean, before the Labors)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Hera-sent madness in Thebes *before* service to Eurystheus; Megara’s sons killed; purification then Delphi)
• Madness of Heracles: Murder of Wife and Children (Euripidean, after the Labors)
  Heroes — Heracles · Attic tragic — Euripides (madness *after* return from the labors; Lycus episode; Megara slain; Theseus as comforter)
• Oracle and the Beginning of Service to Eurystheus
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Delphic command; twelve years at Tiryns; labors as path to immortality)
• First Labor: The Nemean Lion
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (invulnerable lion; strangling; Molorchus at Cleonae; skin as armor)
• Second Labor: The Lernaean Hydra
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (many-headed Hydra; Iolaus’s firebrands; Hera’s crab; arrows poisoned in the gall)
• Third Labor: The Ceryneian (Cerynitian) Hind
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (golden-horned hind sacred to Artemis; year-long chase; confrontation with Artemis and Apollo)
• Fourth Labor: The Erymanthian Boar (and Pholus among the Centaurs)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (live capture of the boar; Pholus’s hospitality; centaur battle; Chiron’s incurable wound)
• Fifth Labor: The Augean Stables
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (cleaning by river diversion; wage-quarrel with Augeas; Phyleus as witness; Eurystheus again refuses to count the labor)
• Sixth Labor: The Stymphalian Birds
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (lake birds; Athena’s bronze krotala; flushed and shot)
• Seventh Labor: The Cretan Bull
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (bull of Crete brought alive; released; later the Marathonian bull)
• Eighth Labor: The Mares of Diomedes
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (man-eating Thracian mares; Abderus killed; Diomedes fed to his own horses; founding of Abdera)
• 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)
• Ninth Labor: The Amazons (Melanippe’s Ransom — No Murder of Hippolyte)
  Heroes — Heracles · Diodorean (pitched Amazon war; Melanippe freed for her girdle as ransom; Antiope given to Theseus; Hippolyte not the slain prize-bearer)
• 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)
• Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryon (Helios’s Cup, Orthrus, Erytheia)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Erytheia/Gadira; triple-bodied Geryon; Orthrus and Eurytion; Helios’s golden cup; homeward cattle-drive with Eryx and Hera’s gadfly)
• Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Nereus, Atlas Holds the Sky)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (apples among Hyperboreans by Atlas; Nereus compelled for guidance; Atlas fetches fruit while Heracles bears the sky; craft-return of the burden; Ladon present as guardian but not slain in this plot)
• Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Heracles Slays the Dragon Himself)
  Heroes — Heracles · Alternate classical (Heracles enters the garden, kills the guardian serpent, and plucks the apples — vs. Atlas as intermediary)
• Twelfth Labor: Cerberus and the Descent to Hades (Theseus and Pirithous)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Eleusinian initiation; Taenarum descent; Medusa phantom; Theseus raised, Pirithous left; Cerberus mastered without weapons; ascent via Troezen)
• After the Labors: Iphitus’s Murder and Sale to Omphale
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (labors complete; Eurytus and Iole; murder of Iphitus; Delphic sentence of servitude; Hermes sells Heracles to Omphale of Lydia)
• Omphale in Lydia: Service and Deeds under the Queen
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (three-year Lydian servitude; Cercopes; Syleus; other Asian deeds; release)
• 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)
• Achelous and Deianeira: Contest for the Bride
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (river-god suitor; shape-shifting combat; broken horn; marriage to Deianeira)
• Nessus and Deianeira: The Centaur’s Poisoned Blood
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (ferry at the Evenus; attempted rape; Hydra-poisoned arrow; dying “love-charm” of blood and semen stored by Deianeira)
• Sack of Oechalia and the Taking of Iole (Apollodorus)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (revenge on Eurytus; city sacked; Iole taken as captive concubine; children of Eurytus slain)
• Iole at Trachis: Lichas’s Lie and the Truth (Sophocles)
  Heroes — Heracles · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Trachiniae* (captive train; Lichas’s false tale; messenger’s exposure; Deianeira recognizes Iole as rival)
• Trachis and the Poisoned Robe: Deianeira’s Gift and Heracles’ Agony
  Heroes — Heracles · Sophoclean / Apollodorean (robe anointed with Nessus’s blood; Lichas delivers it; Hydra venom burns; Lichas killed; Deianeira’s suicide)
• 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)
• Apotheosis of Heracles and Marriage to Hebe
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Homeric (immortality after the pyre; reconciliation with Hera; marriage to Hebe; Olympian seat)
• Alcestis Rescued from Death
  Heroes — Heracles · Euripidean / Apollodorean (Admetus’s postponed death; Alcestis dies in his place; Heracles wrestles Thanatos or brings her back from the grave)
• Heracles’ Aid in the Gigantomachy
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (oracle that giants fall only if a mortal helps; Heracles shoots and finishes the Giants beside the Olympians)
• Cycnus Son of Ares: Combat on the Way to the Hesperides (or at Itonus)
  Heroes — Heracles · Hesiodic *Shield* / Apollodorean (Cycnus waylays pilgrims; Heracles kills him; Ares engages and is wounded or parted by Zeus)
• Birth of Theseus: Aethra, Aegeus, and Poseidon (Double Paternity)
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan compilation (Trozenian conception; Aegeus and Poseidon both named as fathers)
• Tokens under the Rock; Decision for the Land Road
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (recognition tokens; Theseus chooses the bandit-ridden Isthmus road over the sea)
• Road Labor: Periphetes the Club-Bearer
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (first Isthmus labor; Periphetes slain with his own club)
• Road Labor: Sinis Pityocamptes the Pine-Bender
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Isthmus pine-bender; killed by his own method; Perigune)
• Road Labor: The Crommyonian Sow (Phaea)
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (man-eating sow of Crommyon; Phaea as beast or as woman-keeper)
• Road Labor: Sciron and the Megarian Cliffs
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Attic (Sciron forced travelers to wash his feet, then kicked them to a turtle; Theseus hurls him down)
• Road Labor: Cercyon the Wrestler at Eleusis
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Eleusinian wrestler-king; crushed by Theseus’s skill)
• Road Labor: Procrustes (Damastes) and the Bed
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (last Isthmus/Attic bandit; stretched or cut to fit the bed; killed likewise)
• Arrival at Athens: Medea’s Poison and Recognition by the Sword
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Medea as Aegeus’s wife plots poison; recognition by sword/sandals; Medea flees)
• The Bull of Marathon
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Marathonian bull = Cretan bull released by Heracles; Theseus captures and sacrifices it)
• Tribute to Minos and the Voyage to Crete
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Androgeus’s death; Athenian tribute of youths and maidens; Theseus volunteers)
• The Minotaur and the Labyrinth: Ariadne’s Thread and Daedalus
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Ariadne’s love; thread; Theseus kills the Minotaur; escape from Daedalus’s Labyrinth)
• Ariadne on Naxos: Abandonment and Dionysus
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean main line (Theseus leaves Ariadne on Naxos/Dia; Dionysus takes her); alternate classical strands noted
• Aegeus’s Death: The Black Sails and Theseus’s Kingship
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (forgotten white sail; Aegeus leaps to his death; Theseus becomes king; Aegean Sea)
• Theseus and the Amazons: Antiope (or Hippolyte)
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus takes Amazon bride Antiope or Hippolyte; Amazon invasion of Attica)
• Hippolytus and Phaedra (Euripides)
  Heroes — Theseus · Attic tragic — Euripides, *Hippolytus* (Phaedra’s forbidden love; Theseus’s curse; Artemis and Aphrodite)
• Theseus and Pirithous: Abduction of Helen
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus and Pirithous seize youthful Helen; she is recovered by the Dioscuri)
• Theseus and Pirithous in Hades: The Attempt on Persephone
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (descent to seize Persephone; binding on the Chair of Forgetfulness; Heracles frees Theseus)
• Prophecy of Pelias and Jason’s Return with One Sandal
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean / Pindaric (oracle of the one-sandaled man; Anaurus crossing; demand for the Golden Fleece)
• Building of the Argo and Gathering of the Argonauts
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (Athena’s design; Argus the builder; catalogue of heroes)
• Departure and the Women of Lemnos (Hypsipyle)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Lemnian women; Hypsipyle; sojourn and departure)
• Cyzicus and the Doliones: Friendly King Killed by Mistake
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (hospitality by night; mistaken battle; funeral games)
• Amycus and the Bebryces: Boxing Match of Polydeuces
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Amycus’s challenge; Polydeuces wins; Bebrycian rout)
• Phineus and the Harpies; the Boreads; Advice for the Symplegades
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (blind seer; Harpies driven off; guidance for the Clashing Rocks)
• The Symplegades (Clashing Rocks)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (dove test; Athena’s push; rocks fixed thereafter)
• Arrival at Colchis and Aeetes’s Tasks
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (audience with Aeetes; fire-breathing bulls; dragon-teeth warriors)
• Medea’s Aid: The Tasks Completed and the Taking of the Fleece
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (drugs; yoking; sown men; dragon lulled or slain; fleece taken)
• Murder of Apsyrtus: Ambush in the Adriatic (Apollonius)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (adult Apsyrtus pursues; lured to Artemis’s shrine; Jason kills him abroad)
• Murder of Apsyrtus: Child Slain and Dismembered (Apollodorus)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (young Apsyrtus taken from Colchis; killed and scattered to delay Aeetes)
• Circe’s Purification; Libya and Triton’s Gift (Return Voyage)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian return (Circe cleanses kin-blood; later Libyan shoals and Triton)
• Talos on Crete
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (bronze guardian; ankle vein; Medea’s defeat of Talos)
• Return to Iolcus and the Death of Pelias (Medea’s Rejuvenation Trick)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (fleece returned; daughters of Pelias deceived; Pelias boiled; exile)
• Corinth: Jason, Medea, Glauce, and the Deaths of the Children (Euripides)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (aftermath) · Attic tragic — Euripides *Medea* (divorce for Glauce; poisoned gifts; filicide; Aegeus; escape to Athens)
• Calydonian Boar Hunt: Setup — Oeneus and Artemis’s Wrath
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean (neglected first-fruits; Artemis sends the huge boar)
• Meleager and the Calydonian Hunt (Atalanta’s Role)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean (pan-Hellenic muster; Atalanta first wound; Meleager awards the hide; quarrel with uncles)
• Death of Meleager: The Brand of the Fates (Althaea)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean / Bacchylidean (Moirae’s brand; Althaea burns it after the uncles’ deaths)
• Meleager in Homer: Phoenix’s Digression (*Iliad* 9)
  Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Homeric — Phoenix to Achilles (anger, withdrawal, city’s peril; no Fate-brand)
• Atalanta: Birth, Exposure, and the Bear
  Heroes — Atalanta · Apollodorean Arcadian (Iasus; exposure; bear; hunters; vow of virginity)
• Atalanta’s Footrace: Melanion and the Golden Apples
  Heroes — Atalanta · Apollodorean Greek (Melanion; Aphrodite’s apples; metamorphosis into lions)
• Bellerophon: Anteia’s False Accusation, Proetus, Iobates, and the Chimera
  Heroes — Bellerophon · Homeric / Apollodorean (Potiphar’s-wife pattern; sealed tokens; Chimera slain)
• Bellerophon, Pegasus, Further Tasks, and the Fall from Heaven
  Heroes — Bellerophon · Pindaric / Apollodorean (+ Homeric end note): Pegasus tamed; heavenward attempt; wandering end
• Orpheus and Eurydice: The Descent
  Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean Greek notice (+ Plato); fuller narrative is largely Roman (Vergil/Ovid)—labeled
• Death of Orpheus: The Maenads
  Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean / Pausanian (torn by Thracian/Macedonian women or Maenads; head and lyre)
• Daedalus and Icarus: The Flight from Crete
  Heroes — Daedalus · Apollodorean (wings of feathers and wax; Icarus falls; Daedalus to Sicily)
• Niobe: Apollo and Artemis Slaughter Her Children
  Heroes — Niobe (Theban / Lydian) · Apollodorean / Homeric (boast over Leto; children shot; stone on Sipylus)
• Tantalus: Crime and Punishment
  Heroes — Tantalids / Pelops · Homeric underworld punishment + Apollodorean crimes (feast of Pelops; theft of nectar/ambrosia)
• Pelops and Oenomaus: The Chariot Race for Hippodamia
  Heroes — Tantalids / Pelops (Trojan genealogy gateway) · Apollodorean (Myrtilus’s sabotage; winged horses from Poseidon; curse on the Pelopids)
• Cadmus and the Founding of Thebes (Dragon’s Teeth)
  Heroes — Cadmus / Theban cycle gateway · Apollodorean (Europa search; Delphic cow; Castalian dragon; Spartoi; Harmonia)
• Europa’s Abduction: Zeus and the Bull
  Heroes — Europa / Cretan kings (preface to Cadmus) · Apollodorean / Moschus (Zeus as bull; Crete; Minos, Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon)
• Laius, Chrysippus, and the Oracle against a Son
  Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (Pelops curse; Delphic warning; Labdacid doom)
• Birth and Exposure of Oedipus; Rearing by Polybus and Merope
  Theban · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (Cithaeron exposure; Corinthian fosterage)
• Delphi and the Murder of Laius at the Crossroads
  Theban · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (Phocian / Daulian crossroads)
• The Sphinx’s Riddle; Oedipus King; Marriage to Jocasta
  Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (riddle solved; throne and queen as prize)
• Plague at Thebes and the Discovery of the Truth (*Oedipus Tyrannus*)
  Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Oedipus Tyrannus* (+ Apollodorean summary)
• Blinding of Oedipus and Exile from Thebes
  Theban · Sophoclean (*OT* end) / Apollodorean (exile timing variants)
• Oedipus at Colonus: Arrival, Death, and Heroic Passing
  Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Oedipus at Colonus* (+ Apollodorean notice)
• Conflict of Eteocles and Polynices; Exile of Polynices
  Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (*Phoenissae*, *OC*, *Seven* backstory)
• The Seven Against Thebes: March and Battle
  Theban · Aeschylean / Apollodorean (seven champions; seven gates)
• Mutual Killing of Eteocles and Polynices
  Theban · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean (fraternal duel)
• Antigone, the Burial of Polynices, and Creon’s Edict
  Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (+ Apollodorean aftermath)
• The Epigoni: The Next Generation’s War on Thebes
  Theban · Apollodorean / epic cycle (*Epigoni* tradition)
• Pentheus and Dionysus (*Bacchae*): Theban Cult Myth
  Theban · Attic tragic — Euripides *Bacchae* (+ Apollodorean summary)
• Amphion and Zethus: The Walls of Thebes
  Theban · Apollodorean / Homeric (*Odyssey* Antiope) / Pausanian
• Amphiaraus Swallowed by the Earth
  Theban — Seven Against Thebes sequel (personal fate of the seer) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (reluctant march; chasm; hero-oracle)
• Alcmaeon, Eriphyle, and the Necklace of Harmonia
  Theban — Epigoni aftermath / Harmonia’s heirloom curse · Apollodorean (matricide; purification; Callirrhoe; death)
• Return of the Heraclidae (Heraclids)
  Heroes — Heracles aftermath / Dorian foundation · Apollodorean (failed attempts; Temenus; Tisamenus; lots for the Peloponnese)
• Ion and Creusa: Athenian Foundation (Euripides)
  Heroes — Attic foundation / Erechtheid line · Attic tragic — Euripides *Ion* (+ Apollodorean genealogy of Xuthus and Ion)
• Orion: Birth Variants (Apollodorus / Boeotian)
  Heroes — Orion · Apollodorean catalogue of birth variants (+ Homeric parentage notices)
• Orion: Blinding, Death Variants, and the Stars
  Heroes — Orion · Apollodorean / Homeric / astral (Oenopion; scorpion; Artemis; Eos)
• Telephus: Auge, Birth, and the Mysian Kingship
  Heroes — Heraclean offspring / Mysian; Trojan prelude · Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Auge* / *Telephus* notices; Hesiodic *Catalogue*)
• Atreus and Thyestes: The Golden Lamb and the Adultery
  Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean succession · Apollodorean / tragic (golden lamb; Aerope’s adultery; exile)
• Atreus and Thyestes: The Banquet of Thyestes’ Children
  Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean feud · Apollodorean / Aeschylean (feast; recognition; curse)
• Birth of Aegisthus: Thyestes and Pelopia
  Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean; prelude to Agamemnon’s murder · Apollodorean / Hyginus (oracle; night rape; sword-token; recognition)
• Admetus’s Wedding: Artemis Neglected and the Serpents in the Chamber
  Heroes — Thessalian / Admetus–Alcestis prelude · Apollodorean (wedding omission; Artemis’s wrath; Apollo’s remedy)
• Alcestis’s Death-Day: Thanatos, Farewell, and the House of Mourning (Euripides)
  Heroes — Thessalian / Admetus–Alcestis · Attic tragic — Euripides *Alcestis* (prologue through death and mourning; before Heracles’ return of the wife)
• Antiope: Zeus, Lycus, and Dirce (Euripides / Apollodorus)
  Heroes — Theban / Amphion–Zethus prelude · Euripidean (*Antiope* fragments) / Apollodorean / Homeric (*Odyssey* 11)
• Dirce and the Bull
  Heroes — Theban / Amphion–Zethus · Apollodorean / Euripidean / Pausanian (bull-death; spring aetiology; Farnese motif in art)
• Nycteus and Lycus: Theban Usurpation Setup
  Heroes — Theban political prelude (pre-Amphionid) · Apollodorean / Pausanian genealogical politics
• Labdacus and Laius: Lineage Bridge to the Labdacids
  Heroes — Theban / Labdacid genealogy · Apollodorean / Pausanian (thin reigns; exile of Laius; restoration after Amphionids)
• Myrtilus: Betrayal, Murder, and the Curse on the Pelopids
  Heroes — Tantalids / Pelopid curse · Apollodorean / tragic (Myrtilus as hinge of the house-curse)
• Peleus, Acastus, and Astydameia
  Heroes — Aeacid / Thessalian (Peleus before Thetis) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (false accusation; abandonment among centaurs)
• 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’ Childhood: Chiron, Scyros, Deidamia, and the Birth of Pyrrhus
  Heroes — Aeacid / Achilles youth (pre-Troy) · Apollodorean / cyclic / Statius-labeled Roman enrichment for Scyros household
• Achilles on Scyros: Odysseus’s Discovery
  Heroes — Aeacid / Trojan muster prelude · Apollodorean / cyclic (*Cypria*) / tragic and handbook tradition (+ Statius Roman labeled for stage business)
• Chiron: Wound, Relinquished Immortality, and Teacher of Heroes
  Heroes — Centaur sage / Heracles aftermath / heroic education · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Hydra-arrow wound; immortality ceded; school of heroes)
• Jason’s Education by Chiron
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (youth prelude) · Pindaric / Apollodorean brief (Pelion fosterage before the one sandal)
• Zagreus: Orphic Dionysus Torn by the Titans
  Heroes / Olympian — Orphic Dionysus (labeled **Orphic**; distinct from Hesiodic–tragic Semele birth) · Orphic (Rhapsodic / mystery anthropogony); classical allusions; late summaries
• Nephele and Athamas: The Cloud-Wife and Ino’s Intrigue
  Heroes — Aeolid / Golden Fleece origin (pre-Argonautica) · Apollodorean / handbook (Nephele; Ino’s plot; famine and oracle)
• Phrixus and Helle: The Golden Ram to Colchis
  Heroes — Aeolid / Golden Fleece origin (pre-Argonautica) · Apollodorean / Apollonian background (ram flight; Hellespont; Aeetes)
• Athamas’s Madness: From Fleece Intrigue to the Killing of Learchus
  Heroes — Aeolid / Athamas house (bridge between fleece origin and Ino’s leap) · Apollodorean (Hera’s madness after Dionysus-nursing; Learchus slain)
• Aeson and Pelias: Usurpation of Iolcus
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus prelude) · Apollodorean / Pindaric Aeolid (Cretheus; Tyro; Pelias seizes the throne)
• Medea Rejuvenates Aeson (Ovid-Labeled)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus return) · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Medea’s true rejuvenation of Aeson — distinct from Pelias’s false boiling (074)
• Heracles Frees Prometheus
  Heroes — Heracles / Titan aftermath · Apollodorean (eagle slain; bonds loosed; Chiron’s immortality traded) — liberation focus
• Heracles’ War on Augeas and the Molionidae
  Heroes — Heracles (post-labor Elian war) · Apollodorean (+ Pindaric Olympic aftermath glance)
• Heracles Founds the Olympic Games (Pindar)
  Heroes — Heracles / Olympia foundation · Pindaric (*Olympian* 10) / Apollodorean enrichment
• Theseus and the Synoecism of Attica
  Heroes — Theseus / Attic political myth · Plutarchan / Thucydidean political myth (+ Apollodorean kingship glance)
• Cecrops: Earth-Born Founder of Athens
  Heroes — Attic kings / foundation · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic (autochthon; first king; contest judge)
• Erechtheus, Eumolpus, and the Sacrifice of the Daughters
  Heroes — Attic kings / Eleusinian war · Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Erechtheus*) / Lycurgan oratory
• Cranaus: Attica in the Time of Deucalion’s Flood
  Heroes — Attic kings / flood generation · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic king-list
• Hellen: Eponym of the Hellenes
  Heroes — Aeolid / Hellenic eponym · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* tradition
• Hellenic Tribes: Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus
  Heroes — Aeolid / tribal eponyms · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* / ethnographic myth
• Stheneboea’s Suicide after Bellerophon’s Rejection (Euripides)
  Heroes — Bellerophon aftermath / tragic heroine · Euripidean (lost *Stheneboea*; reconstructed from fragments and hypothesis)
• Death of Theseus: Lycomedes on Scyros
  Heroes — Theseus (end) · Apollodorean / Plutarchan biographical tradition
• Amphictyon, Son of Deucalion
  Heroes — Deucalionid / Attic king-list bridge · Apollodorean / Pausanian
• Adrastus of Argos: Kingship, Arion, and Survival
  Heroes — Theban / Argive (Seven Against Thebes) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / tragic
• Opheltes (Archemorus): Death at Nemea and the Nemean Games
  Heroes — Theban / Nemean aetiology · Apollodorean / tragic / Pausanian
• Hypsipyle at Nemea: Exile, Nurse, and Rescue
  Heroes — Lemnian / Nemean / Seven Against Thebes · Euripidean (*Hypsipyle*) / Apollodorean
• Capaneus: Blasphemy and the Thunderbolt
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Tydeus and Melanippus: Brains, Athena, and Denied Immortality
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Apollodorean / cyclic / scholiastic
• Parthenopaeus: Death at Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Creon of Thebes: Tyranny after the Brothers
  Heroes — Theban / Creonid rule · Sophoclean / Euripidean / Apollodorean (post-Seven kingship)
• Menoeceus: Voluntary Sacrifice to Save Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Euripidean (*Phoenician Women*) / Apollodorean notice
• Haemon’s Suicide (Sophocles, Antigone)
  Heroes — Theban / Antigone aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone*
• Hippomedon: Death at Thebes
  Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
• Ismene: Fate Variants (Antigone’s Sister)
  Heroes — Theban / Oedipus’s daughters · Sophoclean survival vs. tragic / handbook death variants
• Eurydice of Thebes: Suicide after Haemon (Sophocles)
  Heroes — Theban / Antigone aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone*
• Polynices and Argia (Argeia): Marriage at Argos
  Heroes — Theban / Argive alliance · Apollodorean / tragic / cyclic (Adrastus’s daughters; lion and boar)
• Argia Helps Bury Polynices (Variant)
  Heroes — Theban / burial aftermath · Handbook / post-Sophoclean variant (Argia with Antigone)
• 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
• Death of Aegialeus in the Epigoni War
  Heroes — Theban / Epigoni · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cyclic
• Marriage of Pylades and Electra
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath (also Trojan nostoi close) · Euripidean / Apollodorean handbook
• Adrastus Dies of Grief for Aegialeus
  Heroes — Theban / Epigoni aftermath / Argive · Pausanian / Apollodorean notices
• Orestes’ Purification at Delphi
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath (also Trojan nostoi) · Aeschylean / Apollodorean handbook (Delphic cleansing)
• Orestes’ Wanderings and Alternate Purifications (beyond *Eumenides*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Euripidean notices (multi-site cleansing)
• Chrysothemis (Sophocles’ *Electra*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia (Electra’s sister) · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (foil sister)
• Clytemnestra’s Dream (Aeschylus and Sophocles)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — dream as omen before the matricide (Aeschylean and Sophoclean variants compared)
• Clytemnestra’s Dream of the Serpent (*Choephoroi*)
  Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (serpent nursed at the breast)
• 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
• Shade of Heracles in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Heracles / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — eidolon in Hades while the god feasts on Olympus
• Elpenor’s Shade and Burial Plea (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / companions of Odysseus · Homeric — first shade at the trench; plea for burial rites
• Odysseus Meets Anticleia (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / family of Odysseus · Homeric — mother and son at the blood-trench
• Eriphyle Bribed: Amphiaraus Forced against Thebes
  Heroes — Seven Against Thebes / Argive muster · Apollodorean / cyclic — necklace of Harmonia as bribe
• Laodamia and Protesilaus: Brief Reunion and Death
  Heroes — Thessalian / Trojan first-landing aftermath · Apollodorean / tragic / Ovid-labeled Roman for the statue and second death
• Shade of Tiresias Advises Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
  Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / Theban seer in Hades · Homeric — Tiresias at the blood-trench
• Heracles and the Cercopes
  Heroes — Heracles / side adventure (Ephesus–Lydia region) · Apollodorean / comic folklore handbook tradition
• Heracles and Syleus: The Vineyard
  Heroes — Heracles / Omphale-period side deed · Apollodorean / tragic (Euripides *Syleus*) — forced digging; host slain
• Philoctetes’ Isolation on Lemnos (Sophocles)
  Heroes — Philoctetes / Trojan muster aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Philoctetes* (isolation and wound focus)
• Oedipus Remains King at Thebes (Homeric Variant)
  Heroes — Theban / Homeric vs. tragic Oedipus · Homeric — *Odyssey* 11 (Epicaste); Oedipus continues to rule
• Amphiaraus at Oropos: Hero-Oracle of the Underworld
  Heroes — Seven Against Thebes / aftermath cult · Pausanian / Herodotean — incubation oracle after the earth-swallowing
• Alcmaeon and Callirhoe: The Necklace’s Second Curse
  Heroes — Epigoni aftermath / Alcmaeon’s wanderings · Apollodorean — Psophis to Achelous; Callirhoe’s demand; death in Psophis
• Antigone Entombed Alive (Sophocles)
  Heroes — Theban / Antigone · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (cave tomb and suicide)
• Heracles and Antaeus
  Heroes — Heracles / side labor (Libya) · Apollodorean / Pindaric — earth-giant wrestler slain by lifting
• Heracles and Eryx: Wrestling for the Bull
  Heroes — Heracles / side episode on the Geryon cattle-drive · Apollodorean — Eryx slain in wrestling after a runaway bull reaches Sicily
• Amphitryon’s War on the Teleboans (Taphians)
  Heroes — Amphitryon / prelude to the birth of Heracles · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Shield* — vengeance-war for Alcmene’s brothers
• Neoptolemus Kills Priam at the Altar of Zeus Herkeios
  Heroes — Neoptolemus / Sack of Troy · Cyclic *Iliou Persis* / Apollodorean — Priam slain at the household altar
• Heraclidae at Athens: Death of Eurystheus
  Heroes — Heraclidae / Attic asylum · Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Heraclidae*) — Attic refuge and Eurystheus’s end
• Wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia: The Necklace and the Robe
  Heroes — Theban foundation / Cadmus · Apollodorean / Pausanian — divine wedding gifts; cursed heirlooms
• Heracles Wrestles Nereus for the Way to the Hesperides
  Heroes — Heracles / Eleventh Labor prelude · Apollodorean — Old Man of the Sea wrestled for directions
• Hyllus and Echemus: Single Combat at Tegea
  Heroes — Heraclidae / failed first return · Herodotean / Apollodorean / Pausanian — Hyllus’s death stalls the return
• Perseus, Phineus, and the Wedding Battle
  Heroes — Perseus / Andromeda aftermath · Apollodorean (+ Ovid-labeled Roman battle spectacle)
• Tityus: Assault on Leto and Eternal Punishment
  Heroes / primordial giants — crime against Leto · Homeric / Apollodorean — Tityus in the underworld
• Ixion Bound to the Wheel
  Heroes — Thessalian / underworld punishment · Pindaric / Apollodorean — wheel sentence after Nephele
• Mestra: Shape-Shifting Daughter of Erysichthon (Ovid-Labeled)
  Heroes / Thessalian — Erysichthon aftermath · Roman transmission (Ovid) + Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices of Mestra
• Death of Jason: The Timber of the Argo
  Heroes — Jason / Argonautic aftermath · Euripidean prophecy + mythographic fulfillment (Argo’s beam)
• Heracles and Hippocoön: The Spartan Vengeance War
  Heroes — Heracles / side campaigns after the labors · Apollodorean (Hippocoön; Oeonus; Tyndareus restored)
• Heracles against Neleus and the Pylians
  Heroes — Heracles / side campaigns; Nestor’s background · Apollodorean / Homeric recollection (Neleus; eleven sons; Nestor spared)
• Phyllis and Demophon: The Almond Tree of Thrace
  Heroes — Theseid nostoi / Thracian local · Apollodorean Epitome + Ovid-labeled Roman letters (*Heroides*)
• Heracles, Theiodamas, and the Dryopians
  Heroes — Heracles / side campaigns; Hylas’s parentage · Apollodorean — Theiodamas slain; Dryopian war; Hylas taken
• Theseus’s Bones Brought from Scyros to Athens
  Heroes — Theseus / Attic hero-cult translation · Plutarchan / Pausanian — Cimon recovers the bones; Theseion
• Jocasta’s Suicide (*Oedipus Tyrannus*)
  Heroes — Theban / Oedipus · Attic tragic — Sophocles *OT* (Jocasta hangs herself when the truth is clear)
• Arcas: Eponymous King of Arcadia (Pausanias)
  Heroes — Arcadian kings / Callisto aftermath · Pausanian / Apollodorean — Arcas names Arcadia; divides the land among sons
• Eurystheus Hides in the Bronze Jar
  Heroes — Heracles / labors aftermath delivery · Apollodorean / pictorial classical tradition — Eurystheus cowers in a jar when Heracles brings live monsters
• Molorchus of Cleonae and the Nemean Lion
  Heroes — Heracles / Nemean labor hospitality aetiology · Callimachean (+ Apollodorean labor frame) — poor host Molorchus; postponed sacrifice
• Copreus: Herald of Eurystheus
  Heroes — Heracles / labor administration · Homeric / Apollodorean — Copreus as intermediary after Eurystheus’s fright
• Amphion’s Death after Niobe’s Children Fall
  Heroes — Theban / Niobid aftermath · Apollodorean — Amphion kills himself (or is killed) when Apollo and Artemis slay the Niobids
• Asclepius Resurrects Hippolytus
  Heroes — Asclepiad / Hippolytus aftermath (beyond Euripides’ death) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cultic — Asclepius raises Hippolytus; Zeus’s bolt follows
• Bias, Pero, and the Cattle of Phylacus
  Heroes — Melampodid / Pylian bride-price · Apollodorean / Odyssey genealogical — Melampus wins Pero for Bias
• Peleus and Telamon Kill Phocus
  Heroes — Aeacid house / exile prelude to Phthia and Salamis · Apollodorean / Pausanian — fraternal murder; purification and exile
• Theseus and the Suppliants: Recovery of the Seven’s Bodies
  Heroes — Theseus / Theban aftermath / Attic tragic charter · Attic tragic — Euripides *Suppliants* (Adrastus and the mothers at Eleusis)
• Cadmus and Harmonia: Serpents in Illyria
  Heroes — Theban founders / Illyrian end / metamorphosis · Apollodorean / Euripidean / Apollonian notices — exile, Encheleans, serpent forms
• Tenes of Tenedos
  Heroes / Trojan periphery — Tenedian eponym / Achilles cycle · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cyclic notices — false accusation; exile; Achilles’ killing
• Abduction of the Leucippides
  Heroes / Spartan — Dioscuri / Apharetidae rivalry · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Cypria — Phoebe and Hilaeira carried off
• Branchus and the Oracle of Didyma
  Heroes / local — Milesian–Didymaean seer line / Apolline love · Callimachean / Conon / Strabo / scholia — Branchus beloved of Apollo; Branchidae
• Heracles and the Fifty Daughters of Thespius
  Heroes — Heracles / youth; Thespian progeny · Apollodorean / Pausanian — fifty nights; Thespiades as mothers of Heracles’ sons
• Macaria’s Sacrifice (*Heraclidae*)
  Heroes — Heraclidae / Attic tragic asylum · Attic tragic — Euripides *Heraclidae*; voluntary maiden sacrifice for victory
• 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
• Dioscuri Rescue Helen from Aphidna
  Heroes — Dioscuri / Theseus cycle aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Castor and Polydeuces recover Helen; Aethra captured
• 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
• Ilus Founds Ilium; the Palladium Falls from Heaven
  Heroes — Trojan royal stemma / foundation of Troy’s city · Apollodorean — cow-omen foundation; Zeus’s Palladium; Ilus blinded and healed
• 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
• Tiphys Dies; Ancaeus Takes the Helm
  Heroes — Argonautica / voyage logistics · Apollonian — death of the first helmsman; Ancaeus succeeds
• Butes and the Sirens
  Heroes — Argonautica / return voyage · Apollonian — Butes leaps toward the Sirens; Aphrodite saves him to Lilybaeum
• Pelops’s Ivory Shoulder
  Heroes — Pelopid origins / restoration after Tantalus’s feast · Apollodorean / Pindaric background — Demeter’s bite; ivory replacement
• Athamas and Themisto
  Heroes — Athamantid / Boeotian–Thessalian tragedy · Apollodorean / Hyginus — Themisto’s plot; mistaken filicide; Athamas’s further ruin
• Europa’s Sons in Crete: Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon
  Heroes — Cretan royal foundations / Europa cycle aftermath · Apollodorean / Homeric — three sons of Zeus and Europa; Cretan kingship; Sarpedon’s dual identity
• Lichas and the Poisoned Robe
  Heroes — Heracles / Trachiniae endgame · Sophoclean / Apollodorean — Lichas brings the gift; Heracles hurls him to death
• Electryon’s Death and Amphitryon’s Exile
  Heroes — Amphitryon / Heracles prelude / Mycenaean house · Apollodorean — accidental killing of Electryon; exile to Thebes; betrothal to Alcmene
• Cadmus and His Brothers Search for Europa
  Heroes — Europa cycle / Phoenician diaspora / Theban prelude · Apollodorean — Agenor’s command; Phoenix, Cilix, Cadmus, Telephassa disperse
• Epaphus: Son of Io, King in Egypt
  Heroes — Io line / Argive–Egyptian bridge · Apollodorean / Aeschylean destiny — Epaphus born of Zeus’s touch; Egyptian kingship
• Melampus in Prison: The Cure of Iphiclus
  Heroes — Melampus / Neleid–Iolcian seers / Phylace · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* — woodworms prophesy; Melampus heals Iphiclus’s impotence
• Oxylus Guides the Heraclidae into Elis
  Heroes — Return of the Heraclidae / Eleian foundation · Pausanian / Apollodorean — one-eyed Oxylus as guide; bargain for Elis
• Hyllus Marries Iole
  Heroes — Heracles aftermath / Trachiniae close / Heraclid marriage · Sophoclean / Apollodorean — dying Heracles exacts Hyllus’s marriage to Iole
• Alcmaeon at Psophis: Phegeus and the Necklace
  Heroes — Epigoni aftermath / Alcmaeon cycle / Arcadian Psophis · Apollodorean — Phegeus shelters Alcmaeon; necklace of Harmonia; murder and revenge
• Acarnan and Amphoterus: The Naming of Acarnania
  Heroes — Alcmaeon aftermath / Acarnanian eponym · Apollodorean / Thucydidean digression — sons of Alcmaeon and Callirhoe avenge and name the land
• Death of Androgeus and the Origin of the Athenian Tribute
  Heroes — Theseus prelude / Minos–Athens quarrel · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Androgeus slain in Attica; Minos wars; tribute of youths
• Hecale Hosts Theseus
  Heroes — Theseus / Marathonian bull / Attic hospitality aetiology · Callimachean *Hecale* — poor old woman shelters Theseus; deme and cult named for her
• Perseus, Megapenthes, and the Founding of Mycenae
  Heroes — Perseus aftermath / Argive–Mycenaean kingship · Apollodorean / Pausanian — kingdom exchange with Megapenthes; Perseus founds Mycenae
• Canace and Macareus
  Heroes — Aeolid house / tragic incest · Euripidean *Aeolus* (fragments / hypothesis) + Ovid-labeled Roman narrative — sibling union; Aeolus’s wrath; deaths
• Sidero Slain by Pelias at Hera’s Altar
  Heroes — Aeolid / Tyro cycle / Pelias’s impiety · Apollodorean — cruel stepmother; twins’ vengeance; slaughter at Hera’s altar
• Iolaus Rejuvenated by Hebe
  Heroes — Heraclidae / Euripidean miracle · Euripidean *Heraclidae* — aged Iolaus prays; Hebe and Zeus restore his youth for battle
• Evadne Leaps onto Capaneus’s Pyre
  Heroes — Seven against Thebes aftermath / Euripidean *Suppliants* · Euripidean — widow’s suttee at Eleusis against her father’s will
• Sybaris (Lamia) of Mount Cirphis
  Heroes / local monster — Delphic / Phocian aetiology · Antoninus Liberalis (from Nicander) — cave-monster; youth-tribute; Eurybatus destroys her
• Abderus and the Founding of Abdera
  Heroes — Heracles / eighth labor aftermath / Thracian foundation · Apollodorean — Abderus killed by the mares; Heracles founds Abdera over his tomb
• Pterelaus and Comaetho: The Golden Hair
  Heroes — Amphitryon / Teleboan war / Taphian kingship · Apollodorean — Poseidon’s immortalizing hair; daughter’s betrayal
• Gelanor Yields Argos to Danaus
  Heroes / Argive — Danaid arrival and transfer of kingship · Apollodorean / Pausanian — last pre-Danaid king; omen of the wolf
• Euphemus and the Clod of Libya
  Heroes — Argonautica / Theran–Cyrenean colonial charter · Apollonian / Pindaric — Triton gives Euphemus a clod; destiny of Thera and Cyrene
• Agamedes and Trophonius: The Treasury of Hyrieus
  Heroes / Boeotian — master builders; prelude to Trophonius’s oracle · Pausanian — removable stone; thefts; decapitation; earth swallows Trophonius
• Phoenix Exiled by Amyntor
  Heroes / Trojan periphery — Phoenix’s autobiography · Homeric — quarrel with Amyntor over a concubine; curse; flight to Peleus
• Rhadamanthys and Alcmene in Boeotia
  Heroes — after Heracles / Cretan lawgiver in Boeotia · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Rhadamanthys weds Alcmene; settles at Ocaleae or Haliartus
• 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)
• Oath of Tyndareus and the Gathering of the Greeks
  Trojan · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* strand (+ *Cypria* muster)
• Odysseus’s Feigned Madness and Palamedes
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (recruitment ruse; Palamedes’s test)
• Sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis (Deer Substitute)
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Iphigenia at Aulis*); Artemis substitutes a deer
• 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)
• Landing at Troy: Protesilaus and Cycnus
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric Protesilaus notice)
• Embassy for Helen: Early Diplomacy Fails
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
• 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)
• Quarrel at the Ships: Chryses, Plague, and the Taking of Briseis
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* Book 1 (Achilles’ wrath begins)
• Zeus’s Promise to Thetis and the False Dream
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 1–2 (divine plot; Agamemnon’s dream; army tested)
• Paris and Menelaus: Duel and the Broken Truce
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 3–4
• Diomedes’ Aristeia: Wounding of Aphrodite and Ares
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 5 (with close of 4 / opening of 6)
• Hector and Andromache at the Scaean Gates
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 6 (city interlude; farewell)
• Ajax and Hector: The Day’s Duel and Truce for Burial
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 7
• The Embassy to Achilles
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 9 (with Book 8 as immediate cause)
• The Doloneia: Night Raid of Odysseus and Diomedes
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 10 (Doloneia)
• Trojans at the Ships; Patroclus Pleads for Achilles’ Armor
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 11–16 (compressed arc to Achilles’ concession)
• Patroclus in Achilles’ Armor; Death at Hector’s Hands
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 16
• Fight over Patroclus’s Body; Thetis and the New Armor
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 17–18
• Reconciliation; Achilles Returns to Battle
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 19
• Achilles’ Aristeia and the Death of Hector
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 20–22
• Funeral of Patroclus and the Games
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 23
• Ransom of Hector: Priam in Achilles’ Tent
  Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 24
• 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
• Death of Achilles: Paris and Apollo
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric foreshadowing)
• Contest for Achilles’ Arms: Ajax, Odysseus, Madness, and Suicide
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Aethiopis* end (Proclus) + Attic tragic — Sophocles *Ajax*; Apollodorean
• 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)
• Sinon and Laocoön: Persuasion and Omen before the Sack
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Roman Vergilian transmission labeled for Laocoön)
• Sack of Troy: Priam, Astyanax, Cassandra and Ajax Locrian
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades*; Homeric allusions)
• Division of Spoils; Sacrifice of Polyxena
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Euripides *Hecuba* / *Troades*
• Helen Recovered by Menelaus
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades*; Homeric *Odyssey* 4)
• Departure Disasters Begin: Athena’s Wrath and Locrian Ajax
  Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* / *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades* prologue)
• 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
• Telemachy: Athena at Ithaca; Telemachus Seeks News (*Odyssey* 1–4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 1–4 (Telemachy)
• Odysseus Leaves Calypso: Raft, Storm, and Landing on Scheria (*Odyssey* 5)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 5 (+ Apollodorean Ogygia notice)
• Cyclops Polyphemus (*Odyssey* 9)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 9 (+ Apollodorean Epitome)
• Aeolus and the Laestrygonians (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 10.1–199 (+ Apollodorean)
• Circe on Aeaea (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 10.135–574 (+ Apollodorean)
• Nekyia: Odysseus in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 11 (+ Apollodorean summary)
• Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis; Cattle of Helios (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 12 (+ Apollodorean)
• Return to Ithaca: Disguise and Eumaeus (*Odyssey* 13–16)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 13–16 (compressed)
• Bow Contest and Slaughter of the Suitors (*Odyssey* 21–22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 21–22 (+ Apollodorean)
• Recognition by Penelope: The Marriage Bed (*Odyssey* 23)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 23
• Laertes; End of the Blood-Feud (*Odyssey* 24)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24 (+ Apollodorean close)
• Orestes Avenges Agamemnon (*Choephoroi* / Libation Bearers)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (+ Homeric / Apollodorean revenge notice)
• Electra: Recognition and Revenge (Sophocles)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (vs. Aeschylean *Choephoroi* recognition)
• The Furies and the Trial at Athens (*Eumenides*)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Eumenides*
• Phaeacians: Nausicaa, Alcinous, and the Escort Home (*Odyssey* 6–8)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 6–8
• 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)
• Iphigenia among the Taurians (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Iphigenia in Tauris*
• Orestes (Euripides): Aftermath at Argos
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Orestes* (post-matricide crisis before any final acquittal staging)
• Electra (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Euripides *Electra* (vs. Sophocles 057 and Aeschylus 056)
• Andromache (Euripides)
  Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Neoptolemus · Attic tragic — Euripides *Andromache*
• Trojan Women (Euripides)
  Trojan — Sack aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Troades* (*Trojan Women*)
• Hecuba: Polymestor and Polydorus (Euripides)
  Trojan — Sack aftermath / early nostos · Attic tragic — Euripides *Hecuba* (Polymestor–Polydorus plot; Polyxena cross-ref 038)
• Telegony: Telegonus Kills Odysseus (Epic Cycle End)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle close / post-*Odyssey* · Epic Cycle — *Telegony* (Proclus summary; Eugammon of Cyrene attrib.)
• Death of Palamedes at Troy
  Trojan — Cypria / early war · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ tragic and Dictyan elaborations labeled where late)
• Achilles and Helen Meet (Cypria)
  Trojan — Cypria interlude · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus)
• Death of Locrian Ajax on the Gyrae Rocks (Detailed)
  Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric (*Odyssey* 4) / Apollodorean / Cycle *Nostoi* (+ Euripides *Troades* wrath frame)
• Euripides *Cyclops* (Satyr Play): Odysseus and Polyphemus
  Trojan — Odyssey side-tradition / satyr drama · Attic satyr play — Euripides *Cyclops* (vs. Homeric *Odyssey* 9)
• Nostoi: Diomedes in Aetolia and Italy
  Trojan cycle — Returns (*Nostoi*) · Epic Cycle / Apollodorean / local Italian Greek notices (Daunia; Islands of Diomedes)
• Teucer’s Exile from Salamis and the Founding of Cyprian Salamis
  Trojan — Nostoi / Aeacid aftermath · Tragic / Apollodorean / Pausanian (Telamon’s rejection; Cyprus foundation)
• Death of Neoptolemus at Delphi
  Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Aeacid end · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Andromache* messenger); Delphic cult
• Hermione and Orestes: Marriage after Neoptolemus
  Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath; Spartan–Mycenaean succession · Euripidean (*Andromache*; *Orestes*) / Apollodorean / Odyssean glance
• Cassandra: Apollo’s Gift and Curse of Unbelieved Prophecy
  Trojan — Priamid / Apolline prophecy · Aeschylean / Apollodorean / cyclic (gift of prophecy; curse of disbelief)
• Rhesus (Play Attributed to Euripides)
  Trojan — Iliadic night / Thracian ally · Attic tragic — *Rhesus* (transmitted with Euripides; authorship disputed in antiquity and modernly)
• 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)
• Creusa’s Death at Troy (Vergil-Labeled)
  Trojan — Sack / Aeneas escape (Roman transmission) · **Roman** — Vergil, *Aeneid* 2 (labeled); Greek notices of Aeneas’s escape lack this full Creusa episode
• Hecuba Transformed into a Dog
  Trojan — Sack aftermath / Hecuba end · Euripidean prophecy + Ovid-labeled metamorphosis / Cynossema aetiology
• 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
• Eurypylus of Mysia at Troy: Slain by Neoptolemus
  Trojan — Little Iliad / Posthomeric endgame · Cyclic (*Little Iliad*) / Apollodorean / Posthomeric (Quintus); Pausanian for Machaon link
• Cassandra’s Prophecies Ignored at Troy
  Trojan — Priamid prophecy / sack prelude · Cyclic / tragic / Apollodorean (warnings unheeded in the city)
• Cassandra’s Prophetic Ravings at Mycenae (Aeschylus)
  Trojan — Nostoi / Agamemnon’s return · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*
• Death of Sarpedon (Iliad)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian allies · Homeric (*Iliad* 16)
• Glaucus and Diomedes: Guest-Friendship and Armor Exchange (*Iliad* 6)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian–Argive link · Homeric (*Iliad* 6)
• Hypnos and Thanatos Carry Sarpedon’s Body (Iliad)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian allies / divine escort · Homeric (*Iliad* 16) — Sleep and Death as funeral conveyers
• Lycaon and Achilles (Iliad 21)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ river aristeia · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
• Thersites Rebukes Agamemnon (Iliad 2)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achaean assembly · Homeric (*Iliad* 2) — assembly abuse; Odysseus’s suppression
• Astyanax: Death Variants (Neoptolemus vs. Odysseus)
  Trojan — Sack / Hector’s heir · Cyclic / Apollodorean / tragic — killer variants isolated
• Asteropaeus and Achilles (Iliad 21)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Paeonian allies / river fight · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
• Achilles and the River Scamander (Xanthus) — *Iliad* 21
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ aristeia / river combat · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
• Hephaestus Burns the Plain: Fire against Scamander (*Iliad* 21)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / divine combat / Achilles’ rescue · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
• Thetis and the Nereids Lament with Achilles (*Iliad* 18)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patroclus aftermath / Nereid mourning · Homeric (*Iliad* 18)
• Iris Summons the Winds for Patroclus’s Pyre (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / funeral of Patroclus / divine messengers · Homeric (*Iliad* 23)
• Achilles, Aeneas, and Poseidon’s Rescue (*Iliad* 20)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ return / Dardanian fate · Homeric (*Iliad* 20)
• 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)
• Hector Waits Alone: Shame, Counsel, and the Scale of Fate (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Hector’s last stand · Homeric (*Iliad* 22.1–213)
• Hector’s Monologue before Achilles (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Hector’s last stand · Homeric (*Iliad* 22.90–130, and the speech-exchange at 248–272 before the final fight)
• Priam Leaves Troy to Ransom Hector (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 24) — decision and departure from Troy (before the night crossing)
• Priam’s Night Journey to Achilles (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 24) — crossing of the plain by night
• Hermes Guides Priam (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 24) — Hermes as disguised guide and counselor
• Hermes Escorts Priam into Achilles’ Camp (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 24) — entry through sentries and gates; departure before dawn
• Andromache Learns Hector Is Dead (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 22 end) — recognition from the wall
• Andromache’s Lament for Hector (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 22) — widow’s speech from the wall
• Hecuba’s Lament for Hector (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 22) — mother’s cry from the wall as Hector dies and is dragged
• Hecuba’s Lament over Hector’s Bier (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / burial of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 24) — formal goos when the body is brought home
• Helen’s Teichoscopia: Naming the Greek Heroes (*Iliad* 3)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — wall-viewing (teichoscopia) before the Paris–Menelaus duel
• Iris Summons Helen to the Wall (*Iliad* 3)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — Iris (as Laodice) fetches Helen for the teichoscopia
• Aphrodite Rescues Paris from Menelaus (*Iliad* 3)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 duel · Homeric — Aphrodite’s mist-rescue of Paris
• Aphrodite Forces Helen to Paris’s Chamber (*Iliad* 3)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — Aphrodite compels Helen after the duel
• Paris Wounds Diomedes (*Iliad* 11)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 · Homeric — Paris’s arrow ends Diomedes’ fighting day
• Athena Tips Diomedes to Wound Ares (*Iliad* 5)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 5 · Homeric — Athena as charioteer and guide against Ares
• Hera and Athena Arm for War: The Chariot of Hera (*Iliad* 5)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 5 · Homeric — goddesses arm and descend against Ares
• 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
• Poseidon Rallies the Greeks (*Iliad* 13)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 13 · Homeric — Poseidon’s covert aid against Zeus’s will
• Hera’s Deception of Zeus on Ida (Dios Apate, *Iliad* 14)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 14 · Homeric — Dios apate (the Deception of Zeus)
• Zeus Lifts the Ban: The Gods May Fight (*Iliad* 20)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 20 · Homeric — revocation of the Book 8 ban; theomachy begins
• Athena Wounds Ares in the Theomachy (*Iliad* 21)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Athena vs. Ares after the river-fight
• 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 Boxes Artemis’s Ears (*Iliad* 21)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Hera vs. Artemis after Apollo’s refusal
• Hermes and Leto Refuse Combat (*Iliad* 21)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Hermes declines to fight Leto; theomachy winds down
• Argus the Dog Recognizes Odysseus (*Odyssey* 17)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Argus’s recognition and death
• Raid on the Cicones at Ismarus (*Odyssey* 9)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings begin · Homeric — first post-Troy disaster in Odysseus’s apologue
• The Lotus-Eaters (*Odyssey* 9)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — lotus and forgetfulness of return
• Eurycleia Washes Odysseus’s Feet: The Scar (*Odyssey* 19)
  Trojan — Odyssey / recognition on Ithaca · Homeric — nurse’s recognition by the boar-scar
• 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)
• The Sirens (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Sirens episode isolated from *Odyssey* 12
• Scylla and Charybdis (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — strait passage isolated from *Odyssey* 12
• Cattle of Helios on Thrinacia (*Odyssey* 12)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Thrinacia sacrilege and shipwreck isolated from *Odyssey* 12
• Penelope’s Bow Contest (*Odyssey* 21)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — bow contest isolated from the slaughter in Book 22
• Slaughter of the Suitors (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — mnesterophonia isolated from the bow contest
• Irus the Beggar: Boxing in the Palace (*Odyssey* 18)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Odysseus (disguised) vs. Irus
• Penelope’s Shroud: The Web Trick (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ithaca during Odysseus’s absence · Homeric — shroud for Laertes; ruse told and exposed
• Telemachus at Sparta: Menelaus and Helen (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — Spartan visit isolated from the Telemachy overview
• Aeolus and the Bag of Winds (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Aeolia episode isolated from the Laestrygonians
• The Laestrygonians at Telepylus (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Telepylus massacre isolated from Aeolus
• Circe, Hermes, and the Herb Moly (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — moly antidote and restoration isolated from the full Circe stay
• Melanthius the Goatherd (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — disloyal goatherd isolated from Eumaeus and the slaughter
• Patroclus Arms in Achilles’ Armor (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 16 · Homeric — arming and Achilles’ charge isolated from Patroclus’s death
• Dolon Captured and Slain (*Iliad* 10)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Doloneia · Homeric — Dolon’s capture, confession, and death isolated from Rhesus
• Priam Clasps Achilles’ Knees (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric — tent recognition, shared weeping, and return of the body
• Nausicaa Meets Odysseus (*Odyssey* 6)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacians · Homeric — river meeting and guidance isolated from Alcinous’s hall
• Penelope’s Bed Test: Recognition of Odysseus (*Odyssey* 23)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — olive-bed token isolated from the slaughter and Laertes
• 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
• Hermes Orders Calypso to Release Odysseus (*Odyssey* 5)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ogygia · Homeric — Hermes’ embassy and Calypso’s bitter obedience
• Eumaeus’s Hospitality to the Beggar Odysseus (*Odyssey* 14)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — swineherd’s hut; food, cloak, and loyal speech
• Demodocus Sings of Troy: Odysseus Weeps (*Odyssey* 8)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacian court · Homeric — blind bard’s Trojan lays; tears that betray the hero
• Penelope’s Dream of the Geese and the Eagle (*Odyssey* 19)
  Trojan — Odyssey / recognition on Ithaca · Homeric — dream omen; Odysseus as eagle; suitors as geese
• Catalogue of Ships (*Iliad* 2)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achaean muster · Homeric — Boeotia-first catalogue of Achaean contingents
• Catalogue of Trojan Allies (*Iliad* 2)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Trojan muster · Homeric — Priam’s allies listed after the Achaean catalogue
• Xanthus and Balius: Achilles’ Talking Horses (*Iliad* 19)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ return to battle · Homeric — immortal horses prophesy Achilles’ death
• Phoenix’s Speech in the Embassy (*Iliad* 9)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Phoenix’s Meleager paradeigma within Book 9
• Pandarus Breaks the Truce (*Iliad* 4)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 4 · Homeric — Athena induces Pandarus’s treacherous arrow
• Ghost of Achilles Demands Polyxena
  Trojan — Cyclic *Nostoi* / *Iliou Persis* aftermath / Euripidean · Cyclic / Euripidean — Achilles’ shade requires Polyxena’s sacrifice
• Briseis Returned: Her Lament for Patroclus (*Iliad* 19)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / reconciliation · Homeric — restitution of Briseis; her goos over Patroclus
• Laertes in the Garden: Recognition of Odysseus (*Odyssey* 24)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — father–son recognition by orchard tokens
• Kerostasia: Zeus Weighs Hector’s Fate (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric — golden scales decide Hector’s doom
• Odysseus’s Speech in the Embassy (*Iliad* 9)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Odysseus’s opening offer and appeal
• Ajax’s Speech in the Embassy (*Iliad* 9)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Ajax’s blunt closing appeal
• Ino-Leucothea Gives Odysseus the Veil (*Odyssey* 5)
  Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings / Scheria approach · Homeric — sea-goddess’s veil as charm against drowning
• Menelaus Wrestles Proteus in Egypt (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / nostoi / Telemachy · Homeric — Proteus of Pharos; Egyptian detention
• The Phaeacian Games (*Odyssey* 8)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacians · Homeric — athletic contests before Odysseus’s apologue
• Theoclymenus Prophesies the Suitors’ Doom (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Melampodid seer; bird-omen and hall vision
• The Shield of Achilles: Homeric Ekphrasis (*Iliad* 18)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 18 · Homeric — Hephaestus’s cosmic and civic shield
• Rhesus and the Thracian Horses (*Iliad* 10)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Doloneia · Homeric — Rhesus slain in his sleep; white horses taken
• Antinous: First of the Suitors to Die (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia · Homeric — Antinous shot at the wine-cup
• Amphinomus: Warning Spurned, Death by Telemachus (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / suitors / mnesterophonia · Homeric — the “good” suitor Athena still dooms
• 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
• Agamemnon’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 11)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 · Homeric — Agamemnon’s morning rampage until wounded
• Euphorbus Wounds Patroclus (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patroclus’s death sequence · Homeric — second blow after Apollo; prelude to Hector’s killing thrust
• Eurymachus: Death of the Suitors’ Spokesman (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia · Homeric — Eurymachus’s failed bargain and death after Antinous
• Leodes the Suitor-Diviner Slain (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia · Homeric — sacrificial diviner among the suitors; futile plea
• The Phaeacian Ship Turned to Stone (*Odyssey* 13)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacians / Poseidon’s wrath · Homeric — Poseidon petrifies the returning escort ship; Scheria’s future sealed
• Suitors’ Shades and Amphimedon’s Tale (*Odyssey* 24)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Book 24 / underworld aftermath · Homeric — Hermes leads the suitors; Amphimedon narrates to Agamemnon
• Teucer Shoots from Behind Ajax’s Shield (*Iliad*)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Teucer’s archery · Homeric — bastard son of Telamon; archer paired with Ajax’s tower-shield
• Nestor Rescues the Wounded Machaon (*Iliad* 11)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 hinge · Homeric — Paris wounds Machaon; Nestor conveys him; Achilles sends Patroclus
• The Achaeans Build the Wall before the Ships (*Iliad* 7)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 7 aftermath · Homeric — night after Ajax–Hector duel; wall and ditch built without hecatombs
• Teichomachy: Fighting at the Achaean Wall (*Iliad* 12)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 12 · Homeric — Trojans assault the wall; Sarpedon and Hector breach
• Poseidon and Apollo Destroy the Achaean Wall (*Iliad* 12)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / wall aftermath aetiology · Homeric — after Troy’s fall the gods wash away the wall (prolepsis in Book 12)
• Odysseus Returns Chryseis to Chryses (*Iliad* 1)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 1 · Homeric — voyage to Chryse; hecatomb; plague ends; Chryses’ prayer
• Helenus and Andromache in Epirus: The Molossian Settlement
  Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Epirote foundation · Apollodorean / Pausanian — after Neoptolemus’s death Helenus holds Andromache; Molossian line
• Aethra Recovered at Troy by Acamas and Demophon
  Trojan — Sack / Theseid nostoi · Cyclic / Apollodorean / Plutarchan — Theseus’s mother freed from Helen’s service
• Eos and the Immortality of Memnon (*Aethiopis*)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* aftermath · Cyclic — Eos obtains immortality for Memnon from Zeus after Achilles kills him
• Arete: Phaeacian Queen and Counselor (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Scheria · Homeric — Arete’s authority among the Phaeacians; Odysseus’s appeal
• Automedon and Achilles’ Immortal Horses (*Iliad* 17)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / fight for Patroclus’s body · Homeric — Automedon’s aristeia with Xanthus and Balios after Patroclus falls
• Athena as Deiphobus Deceives Hector (*Iliad* 22)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Hector’s death · Homeric — Athena’s false likeness ends Hector’s flight and seals his doom
• Telemachus at Pylos with Nestor (*Odyssey* 3)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — first stop of Telemachus’s voyage; Nestor’s nostos-lore
• Athena as Mentor (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / divine guidance of Telemachus and Odysseus · Homeric — Athena’s recurring disguise as Odysseus’s Ithacan friend Mentor
• Odysseus’s Scar: Autolycus and the Parnassian Boar (*Odyssey* 19)
  Trojan — Odyssey / recognition digression · Homeric — flashback that explains the scar Eurycleia recognizes
• Philoetius the Loyal Cowherd (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ithacan household / mnesterophonia · Homeric — cattle-herd who stands with Odysseus against the suitors
• The Suitors Ambush Telemachus (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / suitors’ plot · Homeric — Antinous’s ship lies in wait at Asteris; Athena saves the return
• Helen Drugs the Wine with Nepenthe (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / Sparta · Homeric — Helen’s Egyptian drug that ends grief in the mixing-bowl
• Melantho: The Disloyal Maid (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ithacan household / suitors · Homeric — Melantho insults the beggar Odysseus; sister of Melanthius
• Phemius the Singer Spared (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / mercy · Homeric — Phemius pleads; Telemachus intercedes; Odysseus spares the bard
• Medon the Herald Spared (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / mercy · Homeric — Medon hides under a chair; Telemachus saves him with Phemius
• Halitherses Prophesies in the Ithacan Assembly (*Odyssey* 2)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / Ithacan politics · Homeric — Halitherses reads the bird-omen; Eurymachus scorns him
• Antinous Hurls the Footstool at Odysseus (*Odyssey* 17)
  Trojan — Odyssey / beggar in the hall / guest-abuse · Homeric — first major outrage against the disguised king
• Ctesippus Throws the Cow’s Heel (*Odyssey* 20–22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / suitors’ outrages / mnesterophonia · Homeric — Ctesippus’s “guest-gift”; later killed by Philoetius
• Punishment of Melanthius the Goatherd (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / household justice · Homeric — Melanthius fetches arms for the suitors; is tortured and mutilated
• Hanging of the Disloyal Maidservants (*Odyssey* 22)
  Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / household purge · Homeric — Eurycleia counts twelve guilty maids; Telemachus hangs them
• Hector Rebukes Paris (*Iliad* 3 and 6)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Paris and Hector · Homeric — shame-speeches that drive Paris back to battle
• Glaucus Rebukes Hector over Sarpedon’s Arms (*Iliad* 17)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / fight for Patroclus’s body · Homeric — Lycian ally shames Hector for abandoning Sarpedon’s gear
• Ajax Defends the Ships (*Iliad* 15–16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / teichomachy aftermath / ships in peril · Homeric — Telamonian Ajax as last bulwark before Patroclus enters
• Death of Antilochus at Memnon’s Hands (*Aethiopis*)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* · Cyclic / Apollodorean — Memnon kills Antilochus; Achilles avenges him
• Ajax Carries Achilles’ Body from the Fight (*Aethiopis*)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* / death of Achilles aftermath · Cyclic — Ajax bears the corpse while Odysseus covers the retreat
• Odysseus Enters Troy in Disguise; Helen Recognizes Him (*Little Iliad*)
  Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Little Iliad* · Cyclic / Apollodorean / Euripidean reminiscence — spy mission before the horse
• Poseidon as Calchas Rallies the Ajaxes (*Iliad* 13)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 13 / divine aid to the Achaeans · Homeric — Poseidon’s disguised encouragement at the ships
• Hector’s Prayer for Astyanax (*Iliad* 6)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Hector–Andromache farewell · Homeric — baby fright at the helmet; prayer to Zeus
• Athena Disguises Odysseus as a Beggar (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Ithaca recognition sequence / divine metamorphosis · Homeric — withered flesh, rags, and staff; later restorations
• Odysseus’s Cretan Lies (*Odyssey*)
  Trojan — Odyssey / false autobiographies / *pseudologia* · Homeric — Cretan persona told to Athena, Eumaeus, and Penelope
• Demodocus Sings the Wooden Horse (*Odyssey* 8)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacian court / Trojan War in song · Homeric — bard’s lay of the horse; Odysseus weeps
• Nestor’s Reminiscence of the Pylian Wars (*Iliad*)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Nestor digressions / pre-Trojan saga · Homeric — Nestor’s youth against Ereuthalion, the Eleians, and the Arcadians
• 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
• The Ghost of Patroclus Appears to Achilles (*Iliad* 23)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / funeral of Patroclus · Homeric — shade demands burial; shared bones; vanishes like smoke
• Circe Transforms Odysseus’s Crew into Swine (*Odyssey* 10)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Aeaea · Homeric — drugs, wand, and pig-pens; Eurylochus escapes
• Elpenor Falls from Circe’s Roof (*Odyssey* 10–11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Aeaea / Nekyia prelude · Homeric — drunken fall; unburied shade; burial plea and fulfillment
• Tiresias’s Prophecy of the Inland Oar (*Odyssey* 11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nekyia / nostos beyond Ithaca · Homeric — Poseidon’s wrath; Helios’s cattle warning; oar mistaken for winnowing-fan; gentle death from the sea
• Catalogue of Heroines in the Nekyia (*Odyssey* 11)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Nekyia / heroic genealogy in Hades · Homeric — blood-drinking shades of famous women; Hesiodic-style catalogue embedded in nostos
• Phoenix’s Meleager Paradeigma (*Iliad* 9)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Meleager’s wrath as warning paradeigma inside Phoenix’s speech
• Achilles Consoles Priam with Niobe (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Ransom of Hector · Homeric — Niobe’s grief and return to food as consolation paradeigma
• 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
• Diomedes Wounds Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Diomedes’ aristeia · Homeric — Athena’s leave; spear to Aphrodite’s wrist; Aeneas rescued
• Patroclus Borrows Achilles’ Armor (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia prelude · Homeric — Nestor’s plan; Achilles’ limits; Patroclus arms in the Myrmidon panoply
• Rhesus Slain in the Dolonia (*Iliad* 10)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Night raid · Homeric — Odysseus and Diomedes kill the Thracian king and take his horses
• Patroclus’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 16)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Patroclus turns the Trojans; kills Sarpedon; presses to the wall
• Agamemnon Tests the Army (*Diapeira*, *Iliad* 2)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 2 assembly · Homeric — false dream aftermath; Agamemnon’s test; flight to the ships; Odysseus restores order
• 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)
• Helen in Egypt: Recognition and Escape (Euripides)
  Trojan — Euripidean *Helen* / post-Troy Egypt plot · Attic tragic — Menelaus finds the real Helen; eidolon vanishes; escape from Theoclymenus
• 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
• Eidothea Aids Menelaus (*Odyssey* 4)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Menelaus’s nostos / Egyptian sojourn · Homeric — nymph daughter of Proteus teaches the seal-skin ambush
• Euryalus Insults Odysseus (*Odyssey* 8)
  Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacian games / guest ethics · Homeric — Broadsea’s taunt; discus throw; apology gift
• Polites Slain before Priam
  Trojan — Sack of Troy / Priam’s death prelude · Vergilian Roman narrative (+ Little Iliadic / Pausanian Greek notices) — Neoptolemus kills Polites in Priam’s sight
• Othryoneus’s Betrothal Boast and Death
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Idomeneus’s aristeia · Homeric — Cabesus ally seeks Cassandra; Idomeneus kills him
• Imbrius Son of Mentor Slain
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / fighting at the ships · Homeric — Pedaean husband of Priam’s bastard daughter Medesicaste; Teucer kills him; Hector avenges
• Epeigeus Slain by Hector
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Myrmidon exile of royal blood; Hector kills him over Sarpedon’s body
• Psychostasia: Zeus Weighs Achilles and Memnon
  Trojan — Aethiopis / Aeschylean tragedy / Memnon cycle · Aeschylean *Psychostasia* (lost) + cyclic *Aethiopis* notices — Zeus scales the fates of Achilles and Memnon
• The Memnonides: Birds from Memnon’s Pyre
  Trojan — Memnon aftermath / bird metamorphosis · Ovid-labeled Roman — cinders become fighting birds; annual memorial
• Stentor of the Bronze Voice
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / divine disguise on the battlefield · Homeric — Hera (or Athena) takes Stentor’s form; voice of fifty men
• Eumaeus’s Origin: The Phoenician Nurse and the Traders
  Trojan / Returns — *Odyssey* / swineherd’s autobiography · Homeric — princely birth on Syria; nurse’s betrayal; sale to Laertes
• Cinyras and the Clay Ships
  Trojan — Cypria / Cypriot king’s false contribution · Epic Cycle / handbook — Cinyras promises ships to Agamemnon; sends clay models
• Procne, Philomela, and Tereus
  Local and lesser — Attic / Thracian metamorphosis · Apollodorean (Tereus; tongue; Itys; bird metamorphoses); tragic (*Tereus* of Sophocles, lost)
• Narcissus of Thespiae (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Boeotian · Pausanian local (Thespiae); Greek alternatives to Ovid’s Echo romance
• 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
• Erysichthon: Demeter’s Punishment
  Local and lesser — Thessalian / Demeter cult · Callimachean (*Hymn* 6 to Demeter); Ovidian enrichment labeled Roman
• Adonis: Aphrodite and the Boar
  Local and lesser — Cypriot / Levantine cult myth in Greek dress · Apollodorean (birth from Myrrha/Smyrna; Aphrodite; Persephone; boar death); Bion’s *Lament*
• Hylas Abducted by the Nymphs
  Local and lesser — Mysian / Argonautic episode · Apollonian (*Argonautica*); Theocritean idyll; Apollodorean brief notice
• Endymion and Selene
  Local and lesser — Elian / Carian sleep myth · Apollodorean / Pausanian (eternal sleep; Selene’s visits); Hesiodic genealogy of Endymion as Elian king
• Asclepius at Epidaurus: Healing Cult Myth
  Local and lesser — Epidaurian cult · Pausanian Epidaurian (local birth; incubation; sacred dogs and snakes); inscriptional iamata
• 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
• Ceyx and Alcyone
  Local and lesser — Trachinian / Aeolian metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Greek pair; Apollodorean brief notice of Ceyx
• Hermaphroditus and Salmacis
  Local and lesser — Carian spring metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek cult/toponym of Salmacis at Halicarnassus
• Oreithyia and Boreas
  Local and lesser — Attic / Thracian wind myth · Apollodorean / Platonic Attic (abduction from the Ilissus); Herodotus on Boreas as Athenian ally
• Procris and Cephalus (Apollodorus)
  Local and lesser — Attic / Cephallenian marital tragedy · Apollodorean (gifts of Artemis; accidental killing); Pherecydes / tragic fragments
• Scylla and Nisus: The Purple Lock
  Local and lesser — Megarian / Cretan war · Apollodorean / Pausanian (+ Ciris tradition; Ovid labeled Roman for fullest metamorphosis)
• Baucis and Philemon
  Local and lesser — Phrygian hospitality · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Phrygian theoxeny; no full classical Greek verse narrative survives
• Pygmalion
  Local and lesser — Cypriot · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek notices of Pygmalion as Cypriot king/sculptor vary
• Byblis
  Local and lesser — Milesian / Carian · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek mythographers know Byblis as lover of her twin Caunus
• Acontius and Cydippe (Callimachus)
  Local and lesser — Cean / Delian · Callimachean (*Aetia*); Aristaenetus and Ovid *Heroides* 20–21 as later expansions
• Polyidus and Glaucus of Crete
  Local and lesser — Cretan · Apollodorean (seer Polyidus; drowned boy; snake and herb)
• Melampus the Seer
  Local and lesser — Argive / Amythaonid seers · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* tradition (serpents; cattle of Phylacus; Proetides)
• Amymone and Poseidon: The Lernaean Spring
  Local and lesser — Argive / Danaid prelude · Apollodorean / Aeschylean satyr-play tradition (Amymone)
• Belus, Aegyptus, and Danaus: The Setup
  Local and lesser — Argive / Io’s descendants · Apollodorean genealogical setup (before the Danaid murders)
• The Danaids: Murder of the Sons of Aegyptus
  Local and lesser — Argive · Apollodorean (+ Aeschylean *Suppliants* frame; underworld punishment tradition)
• Lynceus and Hypermnestra: Survival and the Argive Line
  Local and lesser — Argive succession · Apollodorean / tragic (*Danaid* trilogy aftermath); Pausanian cult notices
• Peleus and Thetis: Courtship and Wrestling
  Local and lesser — Thessalian / Achillean prelude (before Trojan wedding) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (shape-shifting Nereid wrestled on the shore)
• Aeacus, Aegina, and the Myrmidons (Peleus’s People)
  Local and lesser — Aeginetan / Phthian · Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled ant metamorphosis; Hesiodic and Pindaric Aeacus notices
• Eos and Tithonus
  Local and lesser — Dawn / Trojan royal house · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (+ Homeric *Iliad* / *Odyssey* notices; Apollodorean genealogy)
• Pasiphaë and the Bull
  Local and lesser — Cretan / Minos cycle · Apollodorean (Poseidon’s bull; Daedalus’s cow; birth of the Minotaur)
• Death of Minos in Sicily (Cocalus)
  Local and lesser — Cretan / Sicilian · Apollodorean (pursuit of Daedalus; Cocalus’s daughters; scalding bath)
• The Three Judges of the Dead (Minos, Rhadamanthys, Aeacus)
  Local and lesser — underworld eschatology · Platonic / Apollodorean / Homeric (Minos) overview
• Sisyphus: Cheating Death and the Rolling Stone
  Local and lesser — Corinthian / underworld punishment · Homeric punishment + Apollodorean / Pherecydian crimes (Thanatos bound; Persephone tricked)
• Salmoneus: Imitating Zeus
  Local and lesser — Thessalian / Elean / underworld sinners · Apollodorean / Vergilian echo labeled; Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices
• Tityos: Assault on Leto and the Vultures
  Local and lesser — underworld punishment / Letoids · Homeric (*Odyssey* 11) / Apollodorean (birth; assault; death by Apollo and Artemis)
• The Danaids’ Punishment: Leaky Jars in the Underworld
  Local and lesser — Argive / underworld punishment · Classical underworld tradition (lyric, tragic, and handbook) attached to the Danaid crime
• Pirithous’s Wedding and the Centauromachy
  Local and lesser — Lapith / Thessalian; Theseus cycle cross-link · Homeric allusion + Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled full battle; Attic vase and temple sculpture tradition
• Caeneus: Gender Change and Invulnerable Lapith
  Local and lesser — Lapith / Centauromachy · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* / Ovid-labeled (Caenis; Poseidon; pine trees)
• Busiris and Heracles in Egypt
  Local and lesser — Heraclean / Egyptian encounter (Labors itinerary) · Apollodorean (+ Pherecydian / Isocratean rhetorical use; vase tradition)
• Antaeus the Wrestler: Heracles in Libya
  Local and lesser — Heraclean / Libyan · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Earth-son; lift and crush)
• Empusa and the Lamiae
  Local and lesser — daimonic / Hecate’s train; folk-bogey in classical comedy and philosophy · Aristophanic / Philostratean / Diodoran (Empusa; Lamia as child-devouring bogey; Hecate connection)
• Scylla and Charybdis: Origin and Metamorphosis
  Local and lesser — Sicilian strait aetiology (separate from *Odyssey* 12 encounter) · Ovidian Roman transmission of Circe–Glaucus–Scylla metamorphosis; Greek notices of Charybdis as daughter of Poseidon and Gaia
• Glaucus of Anthedon: The Fisherman-God
  Local and lesser — Boeotian / marine metamorphosis · Ovidian Roman narrative (+ Pausanian / Hellenistic notices of the Anthedonian fisherman-prophet)
• Birth of Teucer: Hesione and Telamon
  Local and lesser — Salaminian / Trojan prelude (Aeacid line) · Apollodorean (Hesione awarded to Telamon; Teucer as bastard half-brother of Ajax)
• Hero and Leander (Musaeus — Late Greek)
  Local and lesser — Hellespontine love tragedy · Late Greek (Musaeus); earlier Greek notices thin; Ovid *Heroides* 18–19 labeled Roman parallel
• Alpheus and Arethusa
  Local and lesser — Arcadian / Sicilian spring aetiology · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek river–spring myth; Pindaric and Pausanian Greek notices
• Dryope (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Oechalian / dryad metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek name and lotus/tree aetiology
• 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
• Thamyris Challenges the Muses
  Local and lesser — Thracian / poetic hybris · Homeric (*Iliad* 2) / Apollodorean / Pausanian
• Linus: Aetiology of the Mourning Song
  Local and lesser — musical aetiology / harvest lament · Homeric / Hesiodic / Pindaric / Pausanian (multiple Linus figures; song *ailinon*)
• Clytie: The Heliotrope (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — solar metamorphosis / Oceanid · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Helios–Clytie lore; Greek heliotropism as natural aetiology background
• Myrrha (Smyrna): Birth of Adonis from the Myrrh Tree
  Local and lesser — Cypriot / Near Eastern birth aetiology · Apollodorean birth notice thickened; Ovid-labeled full incest narrative
• Cinyras and Myrrha
  Local and lesser — Cypriot kingship / Adonis prelude · Apollodorean / Pindaric notices of Cinyras; Myrrha crime as household disaster
• Polyphemus and Galatea (Theocritus, *Idyll* 11)
  Local and lesser — Sicilian / Cyclops love (pre-Odyssean temper) · Theocritean Greek bucolic (Cyclops as rustic lover; no Acis)
• Acis, Galatea, and Polyphemus (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Sicilian love triangle / river aetiology · Roman transmission (Ovid); builds on Theocritean Polyphemus–Galatea love
• Daphnis (Theocritus)
  Local and lesser — Sicilian bucolic / herdsman hero · Theocritean (*Idyll* 1); Stesichorean and Sicilian precedent notices
• Arion of Methymna and the Dolphin (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lesbian / Corinthian musical legend · Herodotean classical legend (Arion of Methymna)
• Polycrates’ Ring (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Samian tyrant legend (Herodotean) · Herodotean classical legend (historical frame; proverbial fortune)
• Cleobis and Biton (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Argive piety legend (Herodotean) · Herodotean classical legend (Solon’s exemplum of a happy life)
• Candaules and Gyges (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lydian royal legend (Herodotean) · Herodotean classical legend (origin of Mermnad dynasty)
• Rhoeo and Anius: Delian Myths
  Local and lesser — Delian / Apolline local myth · Apollodorean / Diodoran / cyclic notices (Rhoeo; Anius; Oenotropae)
• Iphis and Ianthe (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Cretan metamorphosis / marriage · **Roman** transmission (Ovid) of a Cretan sex-change and marriage tale
• Latona and the Lycian Peasants (Frogs)
  Local and lesser — Lycian aetiology / Leto’s wanderings · **Roman** transmission (Ovid) of Leto (Latona) and the Lycian rustics; frogs as lasting punishment
• Iambe / Baubo and Demeter’s Jest
  Local and lesser — Eleusinian / Demeter’s grief (short entry) · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Iambe); Orphic / Eleusinian notices (Baubo)
• 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)
• Cyparissus (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — metamorphosis / Apolline favorite · Roman transmission (Ovid) of the Cean / Cypriot youth changed into the cypress
• Icarius and Erigone: Dionysus’s Gift of Wine
  Local and lesser — Attic Dionysiac aetiology · Apollodorean / Eratosthenic / Attic handbook (Icarius; first wine; Erigone; Maera; catasterism)
• Aristaeus, the Bees, and Eurydice (Vergil-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — pastoral / bee aetiology; Orphic hinge · Roman primary narrative (Vergil, *Georgics* 4) of a Greek hero (Aristaeus); Greek notices of Aristaeus as pastoral culture-hero noted
• Orpheus’s Head and Lyre Reach Lesbos
  Local and lesser — Orphic aftermath / Lesbian cult aetiology · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Hellenistic (head floats singing; Lesbian oracle; lyre catasterized or dedicated)
• Leucippus of Phaestus (Gender Change)
  Local and lesser — Cretan / Leto cult aetiology · Greek (Antoninus Liberalis from Nicander); Cretan local
• Tiresias: Snakes, Gender Change, Blindness, and Prophecy
  Local and lesser — Theban seer / gender and sight · Apollodorean (double sex; Hera–Zeus quarrel; blindness; prophetic gift)
• Manto, Daughter of Tiresias
  Local and lesser — Theban / prophetic lineage; colonial aetiology · Apollodorean / tragic / Pausanian
• Calchas and Mopsus: The Contest and Death of Calchas
  Local and lesser — mantic rivalry / post-Trojan · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Melampodia* / Strabonian
• Mopsus the Seer (Claros and Cilicia)
  Local and lesser — prophetic founders / colonial · Apollodorean / Strabonian / Argonautic glance
• Amphilochus: Founder Myths (Brief)
  Local and lesser — Epigoni aftermath / colonial founders · Apollodorean / Strabonian / Pausanian
• Hygieia: Birth and Cult (Brief)
  Local and lesser — Asclepiad / healing gods · Classical cult / Apollodorean Asclepiad family / Pausanian
• Machaon and Podalirius at Troy
  Local and lesser — Asclepiads / Trojan War physicians · Homeric / cyclic / Apollodorean
• Death of Machaon (Eurypylus)
  Local and lesser — Asclepiads / Trojan endgame · Cyclic / Posthomeric / Pausanian
• Maera the Dog: Discovery, Death, and Catasterism
  Local and lesser — Attic Dionysiac / astral aetiology · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean Icarius frame)
• The Aiora: Swing Festival and Expiation for Erigone
  Local and lesser — Attic ritual aetiology · Attic / Eratosthenic / lexicographic (Aiora founded after hanging-plague)
• Ariadne’s Crown among the Stars (Corona Borealis)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Dionysiac–Thesean · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean / Hesiodic marriage frame)
• Callisto Catasterism: Arctos (Ursa Major)
  Local and lesser — Arcadian / astral aetiology · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean / Pausanian Arcadian frame)
• The Pleiades: Daughters of Atlas (and Orion’s Pursuit)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook (Eratosthenes / Hyginus)
• The Hyades
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs / Dionysiac nurses · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook
• Hesperides as Atlas’s Daughters (Genealogy)
  Local and lesser — Atlasid genealogy / western nymphs · Hesiodic (Night-born) vs. mythographic Atlasid
• Eos and Orion (Love of Dawn)
  Local and lesser — Dawn’s mortal loves / Orion cycle · Homeric / Hesiodic notices (+ Apollodorean / astral frame)
• Eos Abducts Cephalus
  Local and lesser — Dawn’s mortal loves / Attic Cephalus cycle · Euripidean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices / Apollodorean allusion (+ Pausanian)
• Helios and Leucothoe (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Helios / metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Helios’s love for Leucothoe (and Clytie’s betrayal)
• The Heliades: Amber Tears
  Local and lesser — Helios / Phaethon aftermath / aetiology of amber · Ovid-labeled Roman fullest narrative + Greek tragic/fragmentary and handbook notices
• Cycnus of Liguria Mourns Phaethon (Swan; Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Phaethon aftermath / metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Ligurian Cycnus’s swan change — distinct from Poseidon’s Cycnus and from Ares’s Cycnus
• Aphrodite’s Lament for Adonis (Bion)
  Local and lesser — Adonis / bucolic lament · Hellenistic bucolic — Bion’s *Lament for Adonis* (Greek)
• Gardens of Adonis (Athenian Rite)
  Local and lesser — Adonis / Attic women’s ritual · Classical Athenian — Adonia; brief Greek rite (not Roman elegy)
• Croesus and Solon: Who Is the Happiest Man? (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lydian / Herodotus legends · Herodotean — Solon’s visit and Croesus’s later recognition
• Phoroneus of Argos: First Man and First City
  Local and lesser — Argive foundation / culture-hero · Pausanian / Apollodorean / Acusilaan Argive
• Isles of the Blessed and Elysian Plain
  Local and lesser — eschatology / afterlife geography · Hesiodic *Works and Days* + Pindaric / Homeric Elysium notices
• Atys and Adrastus: Death of Croesus’s Son (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lydian / Herodotus legends · Herodotean — dream, boar-hunt, accidental spear-kill
• Niobe’s Weeping Rock on Sipylus (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Lydian / Anatolian aetiology · Pausanian local — rock on Mount Sipylus still weeping
• Boötes: Icarius among the Stars
  Local and lesser — catasterism / Attic Dionysiac aftermath · Classical astral — Icarius as Boötes (with Maera as dog-star)
• Orion’s Death and the Scorpion (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orion · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook — scorpion sent by Earth or Artemis
• Trophonius: Oracle of Lebadeia
  Local and lesser — Boeotian oracle / hero-cult · Pausanian — descent into the chasm of Trophonius
• Aquila: The Eagle of Ganymede (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Zeus’s eagle · Catasterismic handbook — eagle that bore Ganymede (or Zeus’s bird) placed among the stars
• Lyra: The Lyre of Orpheus (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orpheus · Catasterismic handbook — Orpheus’s lyre placed among the stars
• Black Demeter of Phigalia (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Arcadian Demeter aetiology / cult image · Pausanian — cave of Phigalia; horse-headed Black Demeter; wrath and famine
• Delphinus: The Dolphin of Poseidon and Amphitrite (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Poseidon’s marriage · Catasterismic handbook — dolphin that won Amphitrite for Poseidon
• Artemis at Brauron: Iphigenia and the Attic Cult
  Local and lesser — Attic cult aetiology / Artemis Brauronia · Euripidean / Pausanian — Iphigenia brings the Tauric image to Brauron (or Halai)
• Cassiopeia, Cepheus, and Andromeda (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Perseus cycle · Catasterismic handbook — royal Ethiopian family placed in the stars
• Asclepius as Ophiuchus (Serpent-Bearer)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Asclepius · Catasterismic handbook — Asclepius placed as Ophiuchus with the serpent
• Virgo: Astraea / Dike among the Stars
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Justice departing the earth · Catasterismic / Hesiodic–Aratean — maiden Justice as Virgo
• Cancer: The Crab of the Lernaean Hydra (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Heracles’s Second Labor · Catasterismic handbook — crab sent by Hera, placed as Cancer
• Leo: The Nemean Lion among the Stars (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Heracles’s First Labor · Catasterismic handbook — Nemean lion as Leo
• Gemini: The Dioscuri among the Stars (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Spartan twins · Catasterismic / Homeric–Pindaric — Castor and Polydeuces as Gemini
• Aries: The Golden Ram of Phrixus (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Argonautic prelude · Catasterismic handbook — Nephele’s ram as Aries
• Helen in Egypt with Proteus (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Egyptian / Herodotean Trojan variant · Herodotean — Helen detained in Egypt; Troy fought without her
• Taurus: Zeus’s Bull and Europa (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Zeus and Europa · Catasterismic handbook — bull of Europa (or Io) as Taurus
• Scorpius: The Scorpion among the Stars (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orion cycle · Catasterismic handbook — scorpion that killed Orion as Scorpius
• Sagittarius: Crotus or Chiron the Archer (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / centaur-archer · Catasterismic handbook — Crotus (Musaean) or Chiron as Sagittarius
• Capricorn: Aegipan / Pan in the Typhonomachy (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Typhoeus aftermath · Catasterismic handbook — goat-fish Aegipan (Pan) as Capricorn
• Aquarius: Ganymede the Water-Bearer (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Ganymede · Catasterismic handbook — Ganymede as Aquarius
• Pisces: Aphrodite and Eros as Fishes (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Aphrodite · Catasterismic handbook — Aphrodite and Eros (or Syrian fish) as Pisces
• Libra: The Scales (and the Chelae of Scorpius)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Justice / zodiac history · Catasterismic / Aratean — Chelae become Libra; scales of Dike/Astraea
• Codrus: The Last King of Athens Sacrifices Himself
  Local and lesser — Attic kings / Pausanian–Lycurgan legend · Pausanian / Lycurgan Attic (Codrus; Dorian invasion oracle)
• Lycaon of Arcadia and Zeus Lycaeus
  Local and lesser — Arcadian kings / Zeus Lykaios cult aetiology · Pausanian / Apollodorean — Lycaon’s crime; werewolf lore; Lycaean cult
• Coroebus and Poine at Argos (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Argive local / Apollo’s vengeance aetiology · Pausanian Argive — Poine sent for Psamathe’s death; Coroebus slays her
• Rhampsinitus and the Clever Thief (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Egyptian logos in Greek ethnography · Herodotean Egyptian — treasury theft; decapitation; princess-trap; marriage
• Battus and the Foundation of Cyrene (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — colonial foundation / Theran–Libyan · Herodotean — Delphic oracle; Theran colonists; Battus I founds Cyrene
• Aristomenes of Messenia (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Messenian resistance hero · Pausanian Messenian — Aristomenes’ exploits in the Messenian Wars
• Pan and Pheidippides before Marathon (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Attic cult aetiology / Herodotean logos · Herodotean — Pan appears to the runner; cult of Pan established under the Acropolis
• Periander and Melissa (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Corinthian tyrant logos / necromantic inquiry · Herodotean — Periander’s crime against Melissa; consultation of the Thesprotian dead
• Epimenides Purifies Athens
  Local and lesser — Cretan holy man / Attic purification aetiology · Classical Greek notices — Epimenides summoned after Cylonian pollution
• Inachus: River-King of Argos
  Local and lesser — Argive origins / river eponym · Pausanian / Apollodorean — Inachus as first king or river; father of Io
• Birth of Iamus at Olympia (Pindar)
  Local and lesser — Olympian seer-clan / Iamidai · Pindaric — Evadne bears Iamus; two dragons feed him; Apollo grants voice of prophecy
• Damia and Auxesia: Aeginetan Cult and Athenian Hostages (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Epidaurian–Aeginetan–Attic cult logos · Herodotean — olive-wood statues; Aeginetan theft; Athenian disaster
• The Carnea and Apollo Carneius (Sparta)
  Local and lesser — Spartan / Dorian Apollo festival aetiology · Pausanian / classical — Carneius as local god fused with Apollo; Carnea festival
• The Idaean Dactyls
  Local and lesser — Cretan / Phrygian metalworkers / Rhea’s attendants · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / Pausanian / Strabo — Dactyls as first ironworkers and mystic helpers
• The Cabeiri of Samothrace
  Local and lesser — Samothracian Mysteries / protective daimones · Herodotus / classical notices — Great Gods of Samothrace; initiation
• The Telchines of Rhodes
  Local and lesser — Rhodian primal craftsmen / malign sorcerers · Strabo / Diodorus / Ovid-labeled / Pindaric notices — first smiths; jealous magicians
• Glaucus of Sparta and the Delphic Temptation (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Spartan logos / Delphic morality tale · Herodotean — deposit, perjury contemplated, lineage extinguished
• Zalmoxis of the Getae (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Thracian / Getic logos in Greek ethnography · Herodotean — underground chamber; three-year disappearance; doctrine of immortality
• Artemis Orthia at Sparta (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Spartan cult / Orthia aetiology · Pausanian / classical — wooden image from Astarte-land; madness; scourging altar
• Croesus on the Pyre Saved by Apollo (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lydian logos / Delphic salvation · Herodotean — Cyrus’s pyre; Croesus’s recognition of Solon; rain from a clear sky
• Cypselus, Labda, and the Chest (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Corinthian foundation / Bacchiad oracle · Herodotean — lame Labda; oracles; baby hidden in a *kypsele*; tyrant of Corinth
• Euthymus and the Hero of Temesa (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Locrian / South Italian hero combat · Pausanian — haunted Temesa; Homeric sailor-daimon; boxer Euthymus frees the city
• Croesus Tests the Oracles (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Lydian logos / Delphic prestige · Herodotean — lamb-and-tortoise riddle; Delphi and Amphiaraus proven true
• Pyramus and Thisbe (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Babylonian romance in Roman transmission · Roman transmission (Ovid) — wall-crack lovers; mulberry stained red
• Olympia’s Older Foundations: Idaean Dactyls and Pelops (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Eleian / Olympia cult aetiology · Pausanian — pre-Heraclean foundations of the Olympic games
• Sosipolis at Olympia (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Eleian child-hero / Olympia cult · Pausanian — miraculous child becomes serpent; averts Arcadian invasion
• Cacus and Heracles (Roman-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Roman reception of Heracles / Aventine aetiology · Roman transmission (Vergil / Ovid) of a Greek Heracles cattle-theft combat on the future site of Rome
• Cronus’s Hill at Olympia and the Local Zeus-Birth (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Eleian / Olympia sacred topography · Pausanian — Cronius hill; local claim that Rhea bore Zeus at Olympia
• Glaucus of Potniae and the Man-Eating Mares
  Local and lesser — Boeotian / Corinthian Glaucus / tragic horse-horror · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Virgilian notice — mares of Potniae devour their master
• Phalanthus and the Foundation of Taras
  Local and lesser — Spartan colonial aetiology / Magna Graecia · Pausanian / Aristotelian *Politics* notices — Partheniae; oracle of rain from a clear sky; dolphin
• Aristeas of Proconnesus (Herodotus)
  Local and lesser — Herodotean wonder-tale / Hyperborean poetry · Herodotean — death in the fuller’s shop; reappearance; *Arimaspea*
• The Meleagrides: Sisters of Meleager Become Birds
  Local and lesser — Calydonian aftermath / bird metamorphosis · Antoninus Liberalis (Greek) + Ovid-labeled Roman enrichment — mourning sisters turned into meleagrides (guinea-fowl)
• The Heliadae of Rhodes
  Local and lesser — Rhodian primordial kings / Helios cult · Pindaric / Diodorean — seven sons of Helios and Rhode; fireless sacrifice; murder of Tenages
• Psamathe, Linus, and Crotopus
  Local and lesser — Argive aetiology / Apollo’s child Linus / Poena · Pausanian / Conon — Crotopus’s daughter; exposed Linus; Poena and Coroebus sequel
• Gordius and the Gordian Knot
  Local and lesser — Phrygian foundation / Alexander omen · Arrianic / Plutarchan — peasant-king; wagon knot; Alexander’s cut or loosing
• Contest of Homer and Hesiod
  Local and lesser — biographical legend of the poets / Chalcidian games · Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi (imperial compilation of classical anecdotes) — King Amphidamas’s funeral games; Hesiod wins
• Abaris the Hyperborean
  Local and lesser — Hyperborean wonder-worker / Herodotean notice · Herodotean (+ later Pythagorean enrichment) — arrow-borne traveler; fasting
• The Palici of Sicily
  Local and lesser — Sicilian twin gods / crater lakes / oath cult · Aeschylean *Aetnaeae* notices + Macrobian antiquarian synthesis — twin sons of Zeus and Thalia (or Aetna); boiling lakes; sanctuary of oaths
• Anaxarete and Iphis (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — Cypriot / Roman metamorphosis / hard-hearted beloved · Roman transmission (Ovid) — stone-hearted maiden; Aphrodite’s vengeance
• Crocus and Smilax (Ovid-Labeled)
  Local and lesser — flower metamorphosis / Roman brief aetiology · Roman transmission (Ovid) — unhappy lovers become crocus and smilax
• Batrachomyomachia: Battle of Frogs and Mice
  Local and lesser — Homeric pseudepigrapha / animal parody epic · Pseudo-Homeric (Hellenistic / imperial attribution to Homer or Pigres) — frog-mouse war as Iliadic parody
• Theras Colonizes Thera (Calliste)
  Local and lesser — Aegean colonial foundation / Cadmeid–Heraclid link · Herodotean / Pausanian — Theras of Thebes–Sparta settles Calliste; island renamed Thera
• Scyles and Dionysus at Olbia
  Local and lesser — Scythian logos / Dionysiac transgression · Herodotean — bilingual king; Greek rites at Borysthenes; Scythian execution
• Anacharsis the Scythian
  Local and lesser — Scythian sage / cult transgression / Greek wisdom legend · Herodotean — travels; Mother of the Gods at Cyzicus; death by arrow
• Anaphe and Apollo Aegletes
  Local and lesser — Argonautic return / Cycladic island aetiology · Apollonian — Apollo’s radiant epiphany; island appears; Aegletes cult
• Agdistis of Phrygia
  Local and lesser — Phrygian aetiology / Mother of the Gods / Attis cycle prelude · Pausanian Lydian–Phrygian — bisexual earth-born Agdistis; almond; Attis