- Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
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)
- Children of Iapetus: Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, Epimetheus
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue of Iapetus and Clymene
- The Hawk and the Nightingale (*Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic didactic fable / justice · Hesiodic — animal fable (*ainos*) addressed to kings
- Dike and the Just City (*Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic ethics / Justice · Hesiodic — Dike among mortals; just vs unjust cities
- Apollo and Marsyas
Olympian gods · Apollodorean / Pausanian (musical contest; flaying); Hellenistic and pictorial enrichment
- Athena and Arachne
Olympian gods / Lydian metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) — fullest contest narrative; Greek notices of Athena as weaving patron thinner
- Poseidon and Medusa in Athena’s Temple
Olympian gods — Poseidon / Athena / Gorgon origin · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek temple-violation curse aetiology
- Dione Comforts Wounded Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Dione · Homeric (*Iliad* 5) — maternal consolation on Olympus after Diomedes’ wound
- 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)
- Acrisius, Danaë, and the Bronze Chamber: Conception of Perseus
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (Argive oracle; Zeus as golden rain)
- 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)
- Theseus and Pirithous: Abduction of Helen
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus and Pirithous seize youthful Helen; she is recovered by the Dioscuri)
- Bellerophon, Pegasus, Further Tasks, and the Fall from Heaven
Heroes — Bellerophon · Pindaric / Apollodorean (+ Homeric end note): Pegasus tamed; heavenward attempt; wandering end
- Capaneus: Blasphemy and the Thunderbolt
Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
- Tityus: Assault on Leto and Eternal Punishment
Heroes / primordial giants — crime against Leto · Homeric / Apollodorean — Tityus in the underworld
- 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)
- Cassandra and Apollo: Prophecy and the Broken Compact
Heroes / Trojan cycle periphery — Cassandra · Tragic / handbook — Apollo’s gift of prophecy; spit or refusal; disbelief curse
- Return to Ithaca: Disguise and Eumaeus (*Odyssey* 13–16)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 13–16 (compressed)
- 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
- Leodes the Suitor-Diviner Slain (*Odyssey* 22)
Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia · Homeric — sacrificial diviner among the suitors; futile plea
- Antinous Hurls the Footstool at Odysseus (*Odyssey* 17)
Trojan — Odyssey / beggar in the hall / guest-abuse · Homeric — first major outrage against the disguised king
- Ctesippus Throws the Cow’s Heel (*Odyssey* 20–22)
Trojan — Odyssey / suitors’ outrages / mnesterophonia · Homeric — Ctesippus’s “guest-gift”; later killed by Philoetius
- Athena Disguises Odysseus as a Beggar (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / Ithaca recognition sequence / divine metamorphosis · Homeric — withered flesh, rags, and staff; later restorations
- 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
- Circe Transforms Odysseus’s Crew into Swine (*Odyssey* 10)
Trojan — Odyssey / Aeaea · Homeric — drugs, wand, and pig-pens; Eurylochus escapes
- Salmoneus: Imitating Zeus
Local and lesser — Thessalian / Elean / underworld sinners · Apollodorean / Vergilian echo labeled; Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices
- 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
- Atys and Adrastus: Death of Croesus’s Son (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian / Herodotus legends · Herodotean — dream, boar-hunt, accidental spear-kill