- Dionysus and Ariadne: Marriage on Naxos (Olympian View)
Olympian gods — Dionysus / Ariadne · Hesiodic marriage + Apollodorean / Pausanian Naxos epiphany (olympian bridal focus)
- 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)
- Seventh Labor: The Cretan Bull
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (bull of Crete brought alive; released; later the Marathonian bull)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Daedalus and Icarus: The Flight from Crete
Heroes — Daedalus · Apollodorean (wings of feathers and wax; Icarus falls; Daedalus to Sicily)
- Oedipus at Colonus: Arrival, Death, and Heroic Passing
Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Oedipus at Colonus* (+ Apollodorean notice)
- Theseus and the Synoecism of Attica
Heroes — Theseus / Attic political myth · Plutarchan / Thucydidean political myth (+ Apollodorean kingship glance)
- Death of Theseus: Lycomedes on Scyros
Heroes — Theseus (end) · Apollodorean / Plutarchan biographical tradition
- Adrastus of Argos: Kingship, Arion, and Survival
Heroes — Theban / Argive (Seven Against Thebes) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / tragic
- Phyllis and Demophon: The Almond Tree of Thrace
Heroes — Theseid nostoi / Thracian local · Apollodorean Epitome + Ovid-labeled Roman letters (*Heroides*)
- Theseus’s Bones Brought from Scyros to Athens
Heroes — Theseus / Attic hero-cult translation · Plutarchan / Pausanian — Cimon recovers the bones; Theseion
- Asclepius Resurrects Hippolytus
Heroes — Asclepiad / Hippolytus aftermath (beyond Euripides’ death) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cultic — Asclepius raises Hippolytus; Zeus’s bolt follows
- 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)
- Dioscuri Rescue Helen from Aphidna
Heroes — Dioscuri / Theseus cycle aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Castor and Polydeuces recover Helen; Aethra captured
- Hecale Hosts Theseus
Heroes — Theseus / Marathonian bull / Attic hospitality aetiology · Callimachean *Hecale* — poor old woman shelters Theseus; deme and cult named for her
- Evadne Leaps onto Capaneus’s Pyre
Heroes — Seven against Thebes aftermath / Euripidean *Suppliants* · Euripidean — widow’s suttee at Eleusis against her father’s will
- Aethra Recovered at Troy by Acamas and Demophon
Trojan — Sack / Theseid nostoi · Cyclic / Apollodorean / Plutarchan — Theseus’s mother freed from Helen’s service
- 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
- Ariadne’s Crown among the Stars (Corona Borealis)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Dionysiac–Thesean · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean / Hesiodic marriage frame)