- Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Reign of Cronus, the Swallowing of the Children, and the Birth of Zeus
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean Cretan enrichment clearly marked)
- The Titanomachy
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Typhoeus Against Zeus (Hesiodic)
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
- Hyperion and Theia: Helios, Selene, and Eos
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan luminous genealogy · Hesiodic — Hyperion–Theia brood
- The Hawk and the Nightingale (*Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic didactic fable / justice · Hesiodic — animal fable (*ainos*) addressed to kings
- Birth of Apollo (and Artemis) on Delos
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn — Delian (standard Delian birth of Apollo; Artemis noted at Ortygia)
- Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter
- Hephaestus Cast from Heaven by Zeus
Olympian gods · Homeric / Apollodorean — Zeus casts Hephaestus for defending Hera
- Dionysus and the Tyrrhenian Pirates
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn VII (to Dionysus)
- Zeus and Leda: Helen and the Dioscuri
Olympian gods / Spartan / Trojan gateway · Apollodorean / Homeric (swan; eggs; dual paternity of Dioscuri and Helen)
- Dioscuri: Castor’s Death and Shared Immortality
Olympian gods / Spartan Dioscuri · Homeric / Pindaric / Apollodorean (cattle raid; Idas and Lynceus; alternate days)
- Ganymede Abducted by Zeus
Olympian gods / Trojan royal house · Homeric / Homeric Hymn / Apollodorean (eagle or gods; cupbearer; immortality)
- Hecate in Demeter’s Search (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Hecate · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (torch-bearing companion)
- Helios Tells Demeter about Persephone
Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Helios · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Helios as all-seeing revealer)
- Apollo, Marpessa, and Idas
Olympian gods — Apollo / mortal love contest · Homeric / Apollodorean (Idas vs. Apollo; Marpessa’s choice)
- Zeus Hangs Hera with Anvils (Iliad)
Olympian gods — Zeus / Hera conflict · Homeric (*Iliad* recalled punishment)
- Persephone Eats the Pomegranate: The Return Bargain
Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone · Homeric Hymn to Demeter — pomegranate seed and compromise
- Dionysus Turns the Pirates into Dolphins (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Dionysus · Homeric Hymn VII — metamorphosis climax isolated
- Zeus Abducts Aegina
Olympian gods — Zeus’s loves / Aeginetan foundation · Apollodorean / Pindaric — eagle or pursuit; Asopus’s search
- Hebe: Cupbearer of the Gods
Olympian gods — Hebe / divine household service · Homeric / Hesiodic — Hebe pours nectar; later wife of Heracles
- Eos Abducts Cleitus
Olympian gods — Eos / mortal beloveds · Homeric — brief Odyssean notice of Cleitus among Dawn’s snatched youths
- Polydectes’s Demand: Hermes and Athena Equip Perseus
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (wedding-gift trick; divine guides and gear)
- Visit to the Graeae and the Nymphs
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (shared eye and tooth; path to the nymphs)
- Andromeda at Joppa: Local Palestinian Localization
Heroes — Perseus · Local Joppa / Iope (classical travel and geographic notices vs. Apollodorean Ethiopia)
- 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)
- Second Labor: The Lernaean Hydra
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (many-headed Hydra; Iolaus’s firebrands; Hera’s crab; arrows poisoned in the gall)
- Hesione Exposed at Troy: Heracles, Laomedon, and the Broken Bargain
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (attached to the homeward voyage after the Amazon labor; Apollo–Poseidon wages unpaid; sea-monster; Hesione; mares of Ganymede promised and refused; threat of later war)
- Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Nereus, Atlas Holds the Sky)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (apples among Hyperboreans by Atlas; Nereus compelled for guidance; Atlas fetches fruit while Heracles bears the sky; craft-return of the burden; Ladon present as guardian but not slain in this plot)
- Omphale in Lydia: Service and Deeds under the Queen
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (three-year Lydian servitude; Cercopes; Syleus; other Asian deeds; release)
- Sack of Oechalia and the Taking of Iole (Apollodorus)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (revenge on Eurytus; city sacked; Iole taken as captive concubine; children of Eurytus slain)
- Trachis and the Poisoned Robe: Deianeira’s Gift and Heracles’ Agony
Heroes — Heracles · Sophoclean / Apollodorean (robe anointed with Nessus’s blood; Lichas delivers it; Hydra venom burns; Lichas killed; Deianeira’s suicide)
- 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)
- Theseus and the Amazons: Antiope (or Hippolyte)
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus takes Amazon bride Antiope or Hippolyte; Amazon invasion of Attica)
- 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)
- Prophecy of Pelias and Jason’s Return with One Sandal
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean / Pindaric (oracle of the one-sandaled man; Anaurus crossing; demand for the Golden Fleece)
- Murder of Apsyrtus: Child Slain and Dismembered (Apollodorus)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (young Apsyrtus taken from Colchis; killed and scattered to delay Aeetes)
- Meleager and the Calydonian Hunt (Atalanta’s Role)
Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean (pan-Hellenic muster; Atalanta first wound; Meleager awards the hide; quarrel with uncles)
- Cadmus and the Founding of Thebes (Dragon’s Teeth)
Heroes — Cadmus / Theban cycle gateway · Apollodorean (Europa search; Delphic cow; Castalian dragon; Spartoi; Harmonia)
- Europa’s Abduction: Zeus and the Bull
Heroes — Europa / Cretan kings (preface to Cadmus) · Apollodorean / Moschus (Zeus as bull; Crete; Minos, Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon)
- Birth of Aegisthus: Thyestes and Pelopia
Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean; prelude to Agamemnon’s murder · Apollodorean / Hyginus (oracle; night rape; sword-token; recognition)
- Dirce and the Bull
Heroes — Theban / Amphion–Zethus · Apollodorean / Euripidean / Pausanian (bull-death; spring aetiology; Farnese motif in art)
- Labdacus and Laius: Lineage Bridge to the Labdacids
Heroes — Theban / Labdacid genealogy · Apollodorean / Pausanian (thin reigns; exile of Laius; restoration after Amphionids)
- Achilles on Scyros: Odysseus’s Discovery
Heroes — Aeacid / Trojan muster prelude · Apollodorean / cyclic (*Cypria*) / tragic and handbook tradition (+ Statius Roman labeled for stage business)
- Aeson and Pelias: Usurpation of Iolcus
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus prelude) · Apollodorean / Pindaric Aeolid (Cretheus; Tyro; Pelias seizes the throne)
- Death of Theseus: Lycomedes on Scyros
Heroes — Theseus (end) · Apollodorean / Plutarchan biographical tradition
- Shade of Heracles in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Heracles / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — eidolon in Hades while the god feasts on Olympus
- Neoptolemus Kills Priam at the Altar of Zeus Herkeios
Heroes — Neoptolemus / Sack of Troy · Cyclic *Iliou Persis* / Apollodorean — Priam slain at the household altar
- Heracles Wrestles Nereus for the Way to the Hesperides
Heroes — Heracles / Eleventh Labor prelude · Apollodorean — Old Man of the Sea wrestled for directions
- Heracles and Hippocoön: The Spartan Vengeance War
Heroes — Heracles / side campaigns after the labors · Apollodorean (Hippocoön; Oeonus; Tyndareus restored)
- Abduction of the Leucippides
Heroes / Spartan — Dioscuri / Apharetidae rivalry · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Cypria — Phoebe and Hilaeira carried off
- Dioscuri Rescue Helen from Aphidna
Heroes — Dioscuri / Theseus cycle aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Castor and Polydeuces recover Helen; Aethra captured
- Lichas and the Poisoned Robe
Heroes — Heracles / Trachiniae endgame · Sophoclean / Apollodorean — Lichas brings the gift; Heracles hurls him to death
- Electryon’s Death and Amphitryon’s Exile
Heroes — Amphitryon / Heracles prelude / Mycenaean house · Apollodorean — accidental killing of Electryon; exile to Thebes; betrothal to Alcmene
- Cadmus and His Brothers Search for Europa
Heroes — Europa cycle / Phoenician diaspora / Theban prelude · Apollodorean — Agenor’s command; Phoenix, Cilix, Cadmus, Telephassa disperse
- 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)
- Odysseus’s Feigned Madness and Palamedes
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (recruitment ruse; Palamedes’s test)
- Telephus in Mysia: The First Landing Mistake
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Teuthrania taken for Troy; wound and later healing)
- Quarrel at the Ships: Chryses, Plague, and the Taking of Briseis
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* Book 1 (Achilles’ wrath begins)
- Paris and Menelaus: Duel and the Broken Truce
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 3–4
- Fight over Patroclus’s Body; Thetis and the New Armor
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 17–18
- Neoptolemus Fetched; Death of Paris by Philoctetes’ Bow
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
- Aeolus and the Laestrygonians (*Odyssey* 10)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 10.1–199 (+ Apollodorean)
- Euripides *Cyclops* (Satyr Play): Odysseus and Polyphemus
Trojan — Odyssey side-tradition / satyr drama · Attic satyr play — Euripides *Cyclops* (vs. Homeric *Odyssey* 9)
- 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)
- Helen and Paris: First Night under Aphrodite
Trojan — abduction / Aphrodite’s gift · Homeric (*Iliad* 3 bed scene as paradigm) + Cypria/Apollodorean elopement context
- Lycaon and Achilles (Iliad 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ river aristeia · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
- Hera’s Deception of Zeus on Ida (Dios Apate, *Iliad* 14)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 14 · Homeric — Dios apate (the Deception of Zeus)
- The Laestrygonians at Telepylus (*Odyssey* 10)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Telepylus massacre isolated from Aeolus
- Funeral Games for Patroclus: Casting the Iron Mass (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — weight-throw (solos); Polypoetes victorious
- Hector Rebukes Paris (*Iliad* 3 and 6)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Paris and Hector · Homeric — shame-speeches that drive Paris back to battle
- Eidothea Aids Menelaus (*Odyssey* 4)
Trojan — Odyssey / Menelaus’s nostos / Egyptian sojourn · Homeric — nymph daughter of Proteus teaches the seal-skin ambush
- Epeigeus Slain by Hector
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Myrmidon exile of royal blood; Hector kills him over Sarpedon’s body
- Procne, Philomela, and Tereus
Local and lesser — Attic / Thracian metamorphosis · Apollodorean (Tereus; tongue; Itys; bird metamorphoses); tragic (*Tereus* of Sophocles, lost)
- Hylas Abducted by the Nymphs
Local and lesser — Mysian / Argonautic episode · Apollonian (*Argonautica*); Theocritean idyll; Apollodorean brief notice
- Oreithyia and Boreas
Local and lesser — Attic / Thracian wind myth · Apollodorean / Platonic Attic (abduction from the Ilissus); Herodotus on Boreas as Athenian ally
- Aeacus, Aegina, and the Myrmidons (Peleus’s People)
Local and lesser — Aeginetan / Phthian · Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled ant metamorphosis; Hesiodic and Pindaric Aeacus notices
- Eos and Tithonus
Local and lesser — Dawn / Trojan royal house · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (+ Homeric *Iliad* / *Odyssey* notices; Apollodorean genealogy)
- Sisyphus: Cheating Death and the Rolling Stone
Local and lesser — Corinthian / underworld punishment · Homeric punishment + Apollodorean / Pherecydian crimes (Thanatos bound; Persephone tricked)
- 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
- Busiris and Heracles in Egypt
Local and lesser — Heraclean / Egyptian encounter (Labors itinerary) · Apollodorean (+ Pherecydian / Isocratean rhetorical use; vase tradition)
- Glaucus of Anthedon: The Fisherman-God
Local and lesser — Boeotian / marine metamorphosis · Ovidian Roman narrative (+ Pausanian / Hellenistic notices of the Anthedonian fisherman-prophet)
- Eos and Orion (Love of Dawn)
Local and lesser — Dawn’s mortal loves / Orion cycle · Homeric / Hesiodic notices (+ Apollodorean / astral frame)
- Eos Abducts Cephalus
Local and lesser — Dawn’s mortal loves / Attic Cephalus cycle · Euripidean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices / Apollodorean allusion (+ Pausanian)
- Aquila: The Eagle of Ganymede (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Zeus’s eagle · Catasterismic handbook — eagle that bore Ganymede (or Zeus’s bird) placed among the stars
- Taurus: Zeus’s Bull and Europa (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Zeus and Europa · Catasterismic handbook — bull of Europa (or Io) as Taurus
- Aquarius: Ganymede the Water-Bearer (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Ganymede · Catasterismic handbook — Ganymede as Aquarius
- Cypselus, Labda, and the Chest (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Corinthian foundation / Bacchiad oracle · Herodotean — lame Labda; oracles; baby hidden in a *kypsele*; tyrant of Corinth
- Phalanthus and the Foundation of Taras
Local and lesser — Spartan colonial aetiology / Magna Graecia · Pausanian / Aristotelian *Politics* notices — Partheniae; oracle of rain from a clear sky; dolphin