Olympian gods
Character · slug: olympian-gods
Also: collective, collective male Olympians, Amphimedon speaks, names vary, Hyades
- Primordial Beginnings: Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Birth of Aphrodite from the Foam
Cosmogony / Theogony (cosmogonic birth) · Hesiodic (foam-born; distinct from Homeric “daughter of Zeus and Dione”)
- 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)
- 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)
- Orphic Cosmogony (Brief — Distinct Tradition Note)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic tradition (not Hesiodic main line) · Orphic / late classical–Hellenistic notices (labeled distinct from Hesiod)
- Orphic Anthropogony: Titans, Soot, and Humankind
Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic tradition (anthropogony) · Orphic (labeled distinct from Hesiodic ages); late classical–Neoplatonic reports
- 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
- The Topography of Tartarus (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld geography / cosmic architecture · Hesiodic — Tartarus’s measures, gates, and residents beyond Titan imprisonment alone
- Birth and Early Exploits of Hermes: Cattle Theft, Lyre, and Reconciliation with Apollo
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Hermes
- 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)
- Hermes as Psychopomp: Leading the Suitors’ Shades
Olympian gods · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24
- Birth of Pan (Homeric Hymn 19)
Olympian gods / rustic — Pan · Homeric Hymn to Pan (19)
- 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
- 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
- Hebe: Cupbearer of the Gods
Olympian gods — Hebe / divine household service · Homeric / Hesiodic — Hebe pours nectar; later wife of Heracles
- Visit to the Graeae and the Nymphs
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (shared eye and tooth; path to the nymphs)
- 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)
- Andromeda at Joppa: Local Palestinian Localization
Heroes — Perseus · Local Joppa / Iope (classical travel and geographic notices vs. Apollodorean Ethiopia)
- 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
- Iris Summons the Winds for Patroclus’s Pyre (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / funeral of Patroclus / divine messengers · Homeric (*Iliad* 23)
- 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)
- Agdistis of Phrygia
Local and lesser — Phrygian aetiology / Mother of the Gods / Attis cycle prelude · Pausanian Lydian–Phrygian — bisexual earth-born Agdistis; almond; Attis