- Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Zeus’s Rise: Liberation of the Siblings and First Allies
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean detail on Metis’s drug and Cyclopes’ gifts)
- The Titanomachy
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Imprisonment of the Titans and the Warders of Tartarus
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Typhoeus Against Zeus (Hesiodic)
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Prometheus: The Trick at Mecone, the Theft of Fire, and His Binding
Cosmogony / Theogony (divine–human settlement) · Hesiodic (merged *Theogony* and *Works and Days* fire narrative; woman-as-price summarized here; jar episode in separate Pandora entry)
- 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)
- Atlas Condemned to Hold the Heavens
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan punishment · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (sky-burden as Zeus’s sentence after the Titan war)
- Styx and the Gods’ Oath (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — divine law / river of oath · Hesiodic — Styx’s water as the immortals’ binding oath
- Children of Iapetus: Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, Epimetheus
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue of Iapetus and Clymene
- Briareus–Aegaeon Summoned by Thetis (*Iliad* 1)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hecatoncheires in Homeric narrative · Homeric — Thetis’s rescue of Zeus; Briareus called Aegaeon by men
- Ascalaphus Turned into an Owl
Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld daimones / Demeter’s vengeance · Apollodorean (+ Ovid-labeled Roman enrichment) — orchard-witness of the pomegranate; Demeter (or Persephone) makes him an owl
- Birth of Dionysus: Semele, the Thunderbolt, and Zeus’s Thigh
Olympian gods · Apollodorean / tragic (common classical Semele–thigh birth; Euripidean background)
- Hephaestus Cast from Heaven by Zeus
Olympian gods · Homeric / Apollodorean — Zeus casts Hephaestus for defending Hera
- 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
- Apollo, the Python, and the Founding of Delphi
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn (Pythian) / Apollodorean
- Dionysus and the Tyrrhenian Pirates
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn VII (to Dionysus)
- Zeus and Io
Olympian gods / Argive · Apollodorean Argive (cow; Argus; gadfly; Egypt; Epaphus); Aeschylean tragic enrichment
- Hera and Ixion: The Cloud and the Birth of Centaurus
Olympian gods / Thessalian crime and punishment · Pindaric / Apollodorean (Nephele; Centaurus; wheel)
- Apollo as Admetus’s Herdsman (Alcestis Setup)
Olympian gods / Thessalian · Apollodorean / Euripidean prologue (servitude after Cyclopes; herds prosper; Fate-bargain)
- Phaethon and the Sun Chariot
Olympian gods / Helios · Euripidean fragments + Roman transmission (Ovid) of the sun-chariot fall
- Pan and Syrinx (Ovid-labeled)
Olympian gods / rustic — Pan · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek Arcadian aetion for the panpipes (*syrinx*)
- Dionysus and Lycurgus
Olympian gods — Dionysus · Homeric (*Iliad* 6) / Apollodorean (Edonian persecution; madness; pruning shears)
- Marriage of Hephaestus and Aphrodite
Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Aphrodite · Homeric marital pairing (beyond the net-song) / handbook olympian household
- Zeus Hangs Hera with Anvils (Iliad)
Olympian gods — Zeus / Hera conflict · Homeric (*Iliad* recalled punishment)
- Dione Comforts Wounded Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Dione · Homeric (*Iliad* 5) — maternal consolation on Olympus after Diomedes’ wound
- Binding of Prometheus (Aeschylean)
Olympian gods — Zeus’s order / Prometheus · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Prometheus Bound* (distinct from Hesiodic binding)
- Dionysus Retrieves Semele from Hades
Olympian gods — Dionysus / apotheosis of Semele · Apollodorean / Pausanian — descent and renaming as Thyone
- Persephone Eats the Pomegranate: The Return Bargain
Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone · Homeric Hymn to Demeter — pomegranate seed and compromise
- Hermes Steals Apollo’s Cattle (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Hermes / Apollo · Homeric Hymn to Hermes — cattle-theft isolated from birth and lyre-invention
- Dionysus Turns the Pirates into Dolphins (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Dionysus · Homeric Hymn VII — metamorphosis climax isolated
- 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)
- The Aloadae Bind Ares in a Bronze Jar
Olympian gods — Ares / Aloadae humiliation · Homeric digression (*Iliad* 5) — Otus and Ephialtes imprison Ares thirteen months
- 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)
- Andromeda at Joppa: Local Palestinian Localization
Heroes — Perseus · Local Joppa / Iope (classical travel and geographic notices vs. Apollodorean Ethiopia)
- 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)
- Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryon (Helios’s Cup, Orthrus, Erytheia)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Erytheia/Gadira; triple-bodied Geryon; Orthrus and Eurytion; Helios’s golden cup; homeward cattle-drive with Eryx and Hera’s gadfly)
- 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)
- After the Labors: Iphitus’s Murder and Sale to Omphale
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (labors complete; Eurytus and Iole; murder of Iphitus; Delphic sentence of servitude; Hermes sells Heracles to Omphale of Lydia)
- Omphale in Lydia: Service and Deeds under the Queen
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (three-year Lydian servitude; Cercopes; Syleus; other Asian deeds; release)
- Alcestis Rescued from Death
Heroes — Heracles · Euripidean / Apollodorean (Admetus’s postponed death; Alcestis dies in his place; Heracles wrestles Thanatos or brings her back from the grave)
- 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)
- 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)
- Amycus and the Bebryces: Boxing Match of Polydeuces
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Amycus’s challenge; Polydeuces wins; Bebrycian rout)
- The Symplegades (Clashing Rocks)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (dove test; Athena’s push; rocks fixed thereafter)
- Medea’s Aid: The Tasks Completed and the Taking of the Fleece
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (drugs; yoking; sown men; dragon lulled or slain; fleece taken)
- Death of Meleager: The Brand of the Fates (Althaea)
Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean / Bacchylidean (Moirae’s brand; Althaea burns it after the uncles’ deaths)
- Atalanta: Birth, Exposure, and the Bear
Heroes — Atalanta · Apollodorean Arcadian (Iasus; exposure; bear; hunters; vow of virginity)
- Alcestis’s Death-Day: Thanatos, Farewell, and the House of Mourning (Euripides)
Heroes — Thessalian / Admetus–Alcestis · Attic tragic — Euripides *Alcestis* (prologue through death and mourning; before Heracles’ return of the wife)
- Antiope: Zeus, Lycus, and Dirce (Euripides / Apollodorus)
Heroes — Theban / Amphion–Zethus prelude · Euripidean (*Antiope* fragments) / Apollodorean / Homeric (*Odyssey* 11)
- Dirce and the Bull
Heroes — Theban / Amphion–Zethus · Apollodorean / Euripidean / Pausanian (bull-death; spring aetiology; Farnese motif in art)
- Achilles on Scyros: Odysseus’s Discovery
Heroes — Aeacid / Trojan muster prelude · Apollodorean / cyclic (*Cypria*) / tragic and handbook tradition (+ Statius Roman labeled for stage business)
- Chiron: Wound, Relinquished Immortality, and Teacher of Heroes
Heroes — Centaur sage / Heracles aftermath / heroic education · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Hydra-arrow wound; immortality ceded; school of heroes)
- Medea Rejuvenates Aeson (Ovid-Labeled)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus return) · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Medea’s true rejuvenation of Aeson — distinct from Pelias’s false boiling (074)
- Heracles Frees Prometheus
Heroes — Heracles / Titan aftermath · Apollodorean (eagle slain; bonds loosed; Chiron’s immortality traded) — liberation focus
- Adrastus of Argos: Kingship, Arion, and Survival
Heroes — Theban / Argive (Seven Against Thebes) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / tragic
- Hypsipyle at Nemea: Exile, Nurse, and Rescue
Heroes — Lemnian / Nemean / Seven Against Thebes · Euripidean (*Hypsipyle*) / Apollodorean
- Polynices and Argia (Argeia): Marriage at Argos
Heroes — Theban / Argive alliance · Apollodorean / tragic / cyclic (Adrastus’s daughters; lion and boar)
- Shade of Achilles in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Achilles / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Achilles’ shade speaks with Odysseus
- Eriphyle Bribed: Amphiaraus Forced against Thebes
Heroes — Seven Against Thebes / Argive muster · Apollodorean / cyclic — necklace of Harmonia as bribe
- Ixion Bound to the Wheel
Heroes — Thessalian / underworld punishment · Pindaric / Apollodorean — wheel sentence after Nephele
- 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)
- Cadmus and Harmonia: Serpents in Illyria
Heroes — Theban founders / Illyrian end / metamorphosis · Apollodorean / Euripidean / Apollonian notices — exile, Encheleans, serpent forms
- Butes and the Sirens
Heroes — Argonautica / return voyage · Apollonian — Butes leaps toward the Sirens; Aphrodite saves him to Lilybaeum
- Electryon’s Death and Amphitryon’s Exile
Heroes — Amphitryon / Heracles prelude / Mycenaean house · Apollodorean — accidental killing of Electryon; exile to Thebes; betrothal to Alcmene
- Odysseus’s Feigned Madness and Palamedes
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (recruitment ruse; Palamedes’s test)
- Trojans at the Ships; Patroclus Pleads for Achilles’ Armor
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 11–16 (compressed arc to Achilles’ concession)
- Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis; Cattle of Helios (*Odyssey* 12)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 12 (+ Apollodorean)
- 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)
- Idomeneus and the Vow (Human Sacrifice / Exile)
Trojan — Nostoi / Cretan return · Apollodorean / Servian–handbook nostos (vow; plague; exile)
- Glaucus and Diomedes: Guest-Friendship and Armor Exchange (*Iliad* 6)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian–Argive link · Homeric (*Iliad* 6)
- Andromache Learns Hector Is Dead (*Iliad* 22)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 22 end) — recognition from the wall
- Hera’s Deception of Zeus on Ida (Dios Apate, *Iliad* 14)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 14 · Homeric — Dios apate (the Deception of Zeus)
- Athena Wounds Ares in the Theomachy (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Athena vs. Ares after the river-fight
- The Sirens (*Odyssey* 12)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Sirens episode isolated from *Odyssey* 12
- Aeolus and the Bag of Winds (*Odyssey* 10)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Aeolia episode isolated from the Laestrygonians
- Melanthius the Goatherd (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — disloyal goatherd isolated from Eumaeus and the slaughter
- Hermes Orders Calypso to Release Odysseus (*Odyssey* 5)
Trojan — Odyssey / Ogygia · Homeric — Hermes’ embassy and Calypso’s bitter obedience
- Catalogue of Ships (*Iliad* 2)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achaean muster · Homeric — Boeotia-first catalogue of Achaean contingents
- Ino-Leucothea Gives Odysseus the Veil (*Odyssey* 5)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings / Scheria approach · Homeric — sea-goddess’s veil as charm against drowning
- Amphinomus: Warning Spurned, Death by Telemachus (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / suitors / mnesterophonia · Homeric — the “good” suitor Athena still dooms
- Leodes the Suitor-Diviner Slain (*Odyssey* 22)
Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia · Homeric — sacrificial diviner among the suitors; futile plea
- 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)
- Silenus Captured by Midas (Phrygian)
Local and lesser — Phrygian / Dionysiac · Classical Greek notices + handbook; Ovid/Hyginus labeled for continuous narrative link to the golden touch
- Arion of Methymna and the Dolphin (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lesbian / Corinthian musical legend · Herodotean classical legend (Arion of Methymna)
- Cycnus of Liguria Mourns Phaethon (Swan; Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Phaethon aftermath / metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Ligurian Cycnus’s swan change — distinct from Poseidon’s Cycnus and from Ares’s Cycnus
- Aphrodite’s Lament for Adonis (Bion)
Local and lesser — Adonis / bucolic lament · Hellenistic bucolic — Bion’s *Lament for Adonis* (Greek)
- Boötes: Icarius among the Stars
Local and lesser — catasterism / Attic Dionysiac aftermath · Classical astral — Icarius as Boötes (with Maera as dog-star)
- Cassiopeia, Cepheus, and Andromeda (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Perseus cycle · Catasterismic handbook — royal Ethiopian family placed in the stars
- Periander and Melissa (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Corinthian tyrant logos / necromantic inquiry · Herodotean — Periander’s crime against Melissa; consultation of the Thesprotian dead
- Artemis Orthia at Sparta (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Spartan cult / Orthia aetiology · Pausanian / classical — wooden image from Astarte-land; madness; scourging altar
- Croesus on the Pyre Saved by Apollo (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian logos / Delphic salvation · Herodotean — Cyrus’s pyre; Croesus’s recognition of Solon; rain from a clear sky
- Gordius and the Gordian Knot
Local and lesser — Phrygian foundation / Alexander omen · Arrianic / Plutarchan — peasant-king; wagon knot; Alexander’s cut or loosing