- 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)
- Myrtilus: Betrayal, Murder, and the Curse on the Pelopids
Heroes — Tantalids / Pelopid curse · Apollodorean / tragic (Myrtilus as hinge of the house-curse)
- 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
- Philoctetes’ Isolation on Lemnos (Sophocles)
Heroes — Philoctetes / Trojan muster aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Philoctetes* (isolation and wound focus)
- Neoptolemus Kills Priam at the Altar of Zeus Herkeios
Heroes — Neoptolemus / Sack of Troy · Cyclic *Iliou Persis* / Apollodorean — Priam slain at the household altar
- Tenes of Tenedos
Heroes / Trojan periphery — Tenedian eponym / Achilles cycle · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cyclic notices — false accusation; exile; Achilles’ killing
- Phoenix Exiled by Amyntor
Heroes / Trojan periphery — Phoenix’s autobiography · Homeric — quarrel with Amyntor over a concubine; curse; flight to Peleus
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- Telemachy: Athena at Ithaca; Telemachus Seeks News (*Odyssey* 1–4)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 1–4 (Telemachy)
- 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)
- Orestes (Euripides): Aftermath at Argos
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Orestes* (post-matricide crisis before any final acquittal staging)
- Andromache (Euripides)
Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Neoptolemus · Attic tragic — Euripides *Andromache*
- Trojan Women (Euripides)
Trojan — Sack aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Troades* (*Trojan Women*)
- 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)
- Teucer’s Exile from Salamis and the Founding of Cyprian Salamis
Trojan — Nostoi / Aeacid aftermath · Tragic / Apollodorean / Pausanian (Telamon’s rejection; Cyprus foundation)
- Hermione and Orestes: Marriage after Neoptolemus
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath; Spartan–Mycenaean succession · Euripidean (*Andromache*; *Orestes*) / Apollodorean / Odyssean glance
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Division of the Trojan Women: Brief Allotments
Trojan — Sack / spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean / cyclic
- Ajax Telamonian: Tomb and Cult
Trojan — Ajax aftermath / hero cult · Homeric / cyclic / Pausanian / local Rhoetean
- 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*
- Thersites Rebukes Agamemnon (Iliad 2)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achaean assembly · Homeric (*Iliad* 2) — assembly abuse; Odysseus’s suppression
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Funeral Games for Patroclus: The Chariot Race (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — chariot race as chief contest
- Telemachus at Sparta: Menelaus and Helen (*Odyssey* 4)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — Spartan visit isolated from the Telemachy overview
- 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
- Catalogue of Ships (*Iliad* 2)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achaean muster · Homeric — Boeotia-first catalogue of Achaean contingents
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Odysseus Returns Chryseis to Chryses (*Iliad* 1)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 1 · Homeric — voyage to Chryse; hecatomb; plague ends; Chryses’ prayer
- Aethra Recovered at Troy by Acamas and Demophon
Trojan — Sack / Theseid nostoi · Cyclic / Apollodorean / Plutarchan — Theseus’s mother freed from Helen’s service
- 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
- Helen Drugs the Wine with Nepenthe (*Odyssey* 4)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / Sparta · Homeric — Helen’s Egyptian drug that ends grief in the mixing-bowl
- Hector Rebukes Paris (*Iliad* 3 and 6)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Paris and Hector · Homeric — shame-speeches that drive Paris back to battle
- Odysseus Enters Troy in Disguise; Helen Recognizes Him (*Little Iliad*)
Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Little Iliad* · Cyclic / Apollodorean / Euripidean reminiscence — spy mission before the horse
- 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
- 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
- Eidothea Aids Menelaus (*Odyssey* 4)
Trojan — Odyssey / Menelaus’s nostos / Egyptian sojourn · Homeric — nymph daughter of Proteus teaches the seal-skin ambush
- Cinyras and the Clay Ships
Trojan — Cypria / Cypriot king’s false contribution · Epic Cycle / handbook — Cinyras promises ships to Agamemnon; sends clay models
- Cinyras and Myrrha
Local and lesser — Cypriot kingship / Adonis prelude · Apollodorean / Pindaric notices of Cinyras; Myrrha crime as household disaster
- Machaon and Podalirius at Troy
Local and lesser — Asclepiads / Trojan War physicians · Homeric / cyclic / Apollodorean
- Isles of the Blessed and Elysian Plain
Local and lesser — eschatology / afterlife geography · Hesiodic *Works and Days* + Pindaric / Homeric Elysium notices
- 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)
- Helen in Egypt with Proteus (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Egyptian / Herodotean Trojan variant · Herodotean — Helen detained in Egypt; Troy fought without her