- Ares and Aphrodite Caught by Hephaestus
Olympian gods · Homeric — Demodocus’s song in *Odyssey* 8
- Hermes as Psychopomp: Leading the Suitors’ Shades
Olympian gods · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24
- Ino–Leucothea and Melicertes–Palaemon
Olympian gods — Dionysiac family / sea-cult · Apollodorean / Homeric (Ino as Leucothea in *Odyssey*); tragic Athamas madness
- 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)
- Apotheosis of Heracles and Marriage to Hebe
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Homeric (immortality after the pyre; reconciliation with Hera; marriage to Hebe; Olympian seat)
- Achilles on Scyros: Odysseus’s Discovery
Heroes — Aeacid / Trojan muster prelude · Apollodorean / cyclic (*Cypria*) / tragic and handbook tradition (+ Statius Roman labeled for stage business)
- 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
- Shade of Tiresias Advises Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / Theban seer in Hades · Homeric — Tiresias at the blood-trench
- Philoctetes’ Isolation on Lemnos (Sophocles)
Heroes — Philoctetes / Trojan muster aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Philoctetes* (isolation and wound focus)
- 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
- Second Gathering; Philoctetes Abandoned on Lemnos
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Sophoclean wound-aetiology)
- Embassy for Helen: Early Diplomacy Fails
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
- 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)
- 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)
- Reconciliation; Achilles Returns to Battle
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 19
- Funeral of Patroclus and the Games
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 23
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Phaeacians: Nausicaa, Alcinous, and the Escort Home (*Odyssey* 6–8)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 6–8
- 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)
- Euripides *Cyclops* (Satyr Play): Odysseus and Polyphemus
Trojan — Odyssey side-tradition / satyr drama · Attic satyr play — Euripides *Cyclops* (vs. Homeric *Odyssey* 9)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Helen’s Teichoscopia: Naming the Greek Heroes (*Iliad* 3)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — wall-viewing (teichoscopia) before the Paris–Menelaus duel
- Paris Wounds Diomedes (*Iliad* 11)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 · Homeric — Paris’s arrow ends Diomedes’ fighting day
- 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: 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)
- 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
- 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
- Dolon Captured and Slain (*Iliad* 10)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Doloneia · Homeric — Dolon’s capture, confession, and death isolated from Rhesus
- 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
- 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