- Primordial Beginnings: Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- 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
- Typhoeus Against Zeus (Hesiodic)
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- 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)
- The Five Ages of Man (Hesiod, *Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — ages of humankind · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* (five races; Bronze and Heroic ages distinct)
- Iris the Messenger (Iliad)
Cosmogony / Theogony — divine agents / Olympian household · Homeric (*Iliad*) — Iris as go-between; Hesiodic genealogy noted
- Birth of the Muses (Mnemosyne and Zeus)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian generation / arts · Hesiodic
- Styx and the Gods’ Oath (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — divine law / river of oath · Hesiodic — Styx’s water as the immortals’ binding oath
- Briareus–Aegaeon Summoned by Thetis (*Iliad* 1)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hecatoncheires in Homeric narrative · Homeric — Thetis’s rescue of Zeus; Briareus called Aegaeon by men
- Ophion and Eurynome: Alternative Primordial Rule
Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic / early alternative pair · Orphic / Apollonian (Orpheus’s song) — Ophion and Eurynome before Cronus and Rhea
- Ate and the Litai (Prayers)
Cosmogony / Theogony — moral personifications / Homeric theology · Homeric — Phoenix’s allegory of Ate and the Litai inside *Iliad* 9
- Birth of Apollo (and Artemis) on Delos
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn — Delian (standard Delian birth of Apollo; Artemis noted at Ortygia)
- Birth and Early Exploits of Hermes: Cattle Theft, Lyre, and Reconciliation with Apollo
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Hermes
- Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter
- Aphrodite as Daughter of Zeus and Dione
Olympian gods · Homeric (Olympian parentage; distinct from Hesiodic foam-birth)
- 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
- Zeus and Leda: Helen and the Dioscuri
Olympian gods / Spartan / Trojan gateway · Apollodorean / Homeric (swan; eggs; dual paternity of Dioscuri and Helen)
- Hera and Ixion: The Cloud and the Birth of Centaurus
Olympian gods / Thessalian crime and punishment · Pindaric / Apollodorean (Nephele; Centaurus; wheel)
- Asclepius: Birth from Coronis; Death by Zeus; Apollo’s Revenge on the Cyclopes
Olympian gods / Asclepiad · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Coronis; crow; thunderbolt; Cyclopes; servitude to Admetus)
- 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)
- Hera Suckling Heracles: Aetiology of the Milky Way
Olympian gods / Heracles infancy · Late classical notices (Diodorus; Pausanias; scholia; Hyginus) — aetiology of the galaxy (*galaxias*)
- Birth of Pan (Homeric Hymn 19)
Olympian gods / rustic — Pan · Homeric Hymn to Pan (19)
- Helios Tells Demeter about Persephone
Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Helios · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Helios as all-seeing revealer)
- Athena Invents the Aulos and Discards It
Olympian gods — Athena / musical aetiology · Classical aetiology (Athena invents and rejects the pipes; Marsyas finds them)
- Zeus Hangs Hera with Anvils (Iliad)
Olympian gods — Zeus / Hera conflict · Homeric (*Iliad* recalled punishment)
- Mnemosyne, Titaness of Memory
Olympian gods — Titan generation / memory and song · Hesiodic / Orphic-adjacent cult notices
- Dione Comforts Wounded Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Dione · Homeric (*Iliad* 5) — maternal consolation on Olympus after Diomedes’ wound
- 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
- Dionysus Retrieves Semele from Hades
Olympian gods — Dionysus / apotheosis of Semele · Apollodorean / Pausanian — descent and renaming as Thyone
- Eileithyia: Goddess of Childbirth
Olympian gods — Hera’s daughter / birth-aid · Hesiodic / Homeric — Eileithyia (or Eileithyiae) as birth-goddess
- 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)
- Thetis’s Prophecy: Zeus and Poseidon Renounce Her
Olympian gods — Zeus / Poseidon / Thetis; Achillean prelude · Pindaric / Apollodorean — son destined to be mightier than his father
- Hebe: Cupbearer of the Gods
Olympian gods — Hebe / divine household service · Homeric / Hesiodic — Hebe pours nectar; later wife of Heracles
- Homeric Hymn to Selene (32)
Olympian gods — Selene / lunar hymn · Homeric Hymn XXXII — praise of the Moon; birth of Pandia
- Homeric Hymn to Poseidon (22)
Olympian gods — Poseidon / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXII — praise of the Earth-shaker
- Homeric Hymn to Heracles the Lion-Hearted (15)
Olympian gods / heroes — Heracles / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XV — birth, labours summary, Olympian seat
- Homeric Hymn to Ares (8)
Olympian gods — Ares / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn VIII — praise and ethical petition to Ares
- Homeric Hymn to Hera (12)
Olympian gods — Hera / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XII — praise of Hera as queenly sister-wife of Zeus
- The Aloadae Bind Ares in a Bronze Jar
Olympian gods — Ares / Aloadae humiliation · Homeric digression (*Iliad* 5) — Otus and Ephialtes imprison Ares thirteen months
- 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)
- Oracle and the Beginning of Service to Eurystheus
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Delphic command; twelve years at Tiryns; labors as path to immortality)
- Eighth Labor: The Mares of Diomedes
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (man-eating Thracian mares; Abderus killed; Diomedes fed to his own horses; founding of Abdera)
- Apotheosis of Heracles and Marriage to Hebe
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Homeric (immortality after the pyre; reconciliation with Hera; marriage to Hebe; Olympian seat)
- Tantalus: Crime and Punishment
Heroes — Tantalids / Pelops · Homeric underworld punishment + Apollodorean crimes (feast of Pelops; theft of nectar/ambrosia)
- Shade of Heracles in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Heracles / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — eidolon in Hades while the god feasts on Olympus
- Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: Eris and the Apple of Discord
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Pindaric wedding background)
- 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
- Diomedes’ Aristeia: Wounding of Aphrodite and Ares
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 5 (with close of 4 / opening of 6)
- Fight over Patroclus’s Body; Thetis and the New Armor
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 17–18
- Ransom of Hector: Priam in Achilles’ Tent
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 24
- Laertes; End of the Blood-Feud (*Odyssey* 24)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24 (+ Apollodorean close)
- Thetis and the Nereids Lament with Achilles (*Iliad* 18)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patroclus aftermath / Nereid mourning · Homeric (*Iliad* 18)
- Priam Leaves Troy to Ransom Hector (*Iliad* 24)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 24) — decision and departure from Troy (before the night crossing)
- Athena Tips Diomedes to Wound Ares (*Iliad* 5)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 5 · Homeric — Athena as charioteer and guide against Ares
- Zeus Forbids the Gods to Fight (*Iliad* 8)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 8 · Homeric — Zeus’s ban on divine intervention
- Hera and Athena Blocked by Zeus (*Iliad* 8)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 8 · Homeric — armed descent aborted by Zeus’s threat
- Hera’s Deception of Zeus on Ida (Dios Apate, *Iliad* 14)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 14 · Homeric — Dios apate (the Deception of Zeus)
- Zeus Lifts the Ban: The Gods May Fight (*Iliad* 20)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 20 · Homeric — revocation of the Book 8 ban; theomachy begins
- Hera Boxes Artemis’s Ears (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Hera vs. Artemis after Apollo’s refusal
- Hermes and Leto Refuse Combat (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Hermes declines to fight Leto; theomachy winds down
- Achilles Drags Hector’s Body (*Iliad* 22–24)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / aftermath of Hector’s death · Homeric — piercing of the ankles; dragging behind the chariot; daily outrage at the tomb
- Diomedes Wounds Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Diomedes’ aristeia · Homeric — Athena’s leave; spear to Aphrodite’s wrist; Aeneas rescued
- Peleus and Thetis: Courtship and Wrestling
Local and lesser — Thessalian / Achillean prelude (before Trojan wedding) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (shape-shifting Nereid wrestled on the shore)
- Aeacus, Aegina, and the Myrmidons (Peleus’s People)
Local and lesser — Aeginetan / Phthian · Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled ant metamorphosis; Hesiodic and Pindaric Aeacus notices
- Ariadne’s Crown among the Stars (Corona Borealis)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Dionysiac–Thesean · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean / Hesiodic marriage frame)
- Atys and Adrastus: Death of Croesus’s Son (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian / Herodotus legends · Herodotean — dream, boar-hunt, accidental spear-kill
- 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
- Aquarius: Ganymede the Water-Bearer (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Ganymede · Catasterismic handbook — Ganymede as Aquarius