- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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*
- 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*
- Argia Helps Bury Polynices (Variant)
Heroes — Theban / burial aftermath · Handbook / post-Sophoclean variant (Argia with Antigone)
- Antigone Entombed Alive (Sophocles)
Heroes — Theban / Antigone · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (cave tomb and suicide)
- Amphitryon’s War on the Teleboans (Taphians)
Heroes — Amphitryon / prelude to the birth of Heracles · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Shield* — vengeance-war for Alcmene’s brothers
- 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)
- Electryon’s Death and Amphitryon’s Exile
Heroes — Amphitryon / Heracles prelude / Mycenaean house · Apollodorean — accidental killing of Electryon; exile to Thebes; betrothal to Alcmene