- Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
- 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)
- Hecate’s Privileges (Hesiodic)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian settlement / goddess of crossroads · Hesiodic (*Theogony* hymn to Hecate)
- Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Flood and the Stones
Cosmogony / Theogony — flood anthropogony (Hellenic renewal) · Apollodorean (main handbook flood; Parnassus; “bones of the mother”)
- Oceanus, Tethys, and the Oceanids (Hesiodic Overview)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / watery catalogue · Hesiodic catalogue
- Asteria Becomes Delos (Ortygia)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / Delian aetiology · Apollodorean / Callimachean / mythographic (quail / star → island)
- Phorcys and Ceto: Graeae, Gorgons, and Sea-Monster Genealogy
Cosmogony / Theogony — Phorcid sea-monster line · Hesiodic — Phorcys–Ceto brood (zoom on Graeae/Gorgons)
- Children of Iapetus: Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, Epimetheus
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue of Iapetus and Clymene
- Hyperion and Theia: Helios, Selene, and Eos
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan luminous genealogy · Hesiodic — Hyperion–Theia brood
- Eris: Discord, Child of Night (Hesiodic Birth)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Strife · Hesiodic — Eris (Strife) as Night’s daughter (genealogy only)
- The Days of Zeus (*Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic calendar / sacred days · Hesiodic — lucky and unlucky days of the month as Zeus’s ordinance
- Birth of Athena from Zeus’s Head (Metis Swallowed)
Olympian gods · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (same Metis-swallowing lineage; birth-delivery detail from Apollodorus and related classical notices)
- 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
- Aphrodite as Daughter of Zeus and Dione
Olympian gods · Homeric (Olympian parentage; distinct from Hesiodic foam-birth)
- Artemis and Actaeon
Olympian gods · Apollodorean “general opinion” (bathing / stag metamorphosis), with Callimachus as earliest surviving poetic parallel; Acusilaus–Stesichorus Semele-rival strand noted
- Hermes as Psychopomp: Leading the Suitors’ Shades
Olympian gods · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24
- 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)
- 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
- Anchises and Aphrodite (Homeric Hymn V)
Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Trojan ancestry · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (5) — full classical narrative
- Poseidon and Tyro: The Enipeus Deception; Birth of Pelias and Neleus
Olympian gods / Aeolid heroic prelude · Homeric (*Odyssey* 11) / Apollodorean
- Helios Tells Demeter about Persephone
Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Helios · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Helios as all-seeing revealer)
- Dionysus and Ariadne: Marriage on Naxos (Olympian View)
Olympian gods — Dionysus / Ariadne · Hesiodic marriage + Apollodorean / Pausanian Naxos epiphany (olympian bridal focus)
- Marriage of Hephaestus and Aphrodite
Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Aphrodite · Homeric marital pairing (beyond the net-song) / handbook olympian household
- Hephaestus and Charis (Iliad Marriage)
Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Charites · Homeric (*Iliad*) / Hesiodic (Aglaia)
- Zeus and Themis: The Hours and the Fates (Hesiod)
Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / order and law · Hesiodic
- Dione Comforts Wounded Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Dione · Homeric (*Iliad* 5) — maternal consolation on Olympus after Diomedes’ wound
- Zeus and Eurynome: Birth of the Charites (Graces)
Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / Charites · Hesiodic — Eurynome daughter of Oceanus
- Hestia: Virgin Privilege and the Hearth
Olympian gods — Hestia · Homeric Hymns — eternal virginity; first and last libations; hearth privilege
- Eileithyia: Goddess of Childbirth
Olympian gods — Hera’s daughter / birth-aid · Hesiodic / Homeric — Eileithyia (or Eileithyiae) as birth-goddess
- Poseidon and Amphitrite: Marriage of the Sea-Queen
Olympian gods — Poseidon / Nereid queenship · Hesiodic genealogy + Apollodorean / handbook marriage; Delphinus aid
- 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 Heracles the Lion-Hearted (15)
Olympian gods / heroes — Heracles / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XV — birth, labours summary, Olympian seat
- Homeric Hymn to Hera (12)
Olympian gods — Hera / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XII — praise of Hera as queenly sister-wife of Zeus
- The Chest Cast into the Sea: Danaë and Perseus on Seriphos
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (Seriphean landing; Dictys as rescuer)
- Polydectes’s Demand: Hermes and Athena Equip Perseus
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (wedding-gift trick; divine guides and gear)
- Andromeda and the Sea-Monster (Ethiopia)
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean Ethiopian (Cepheus’s Aethiopia; Ammon’s oracle; Phineus petrified)
- Return to Seriphos: Petrification of Polydectes; Dictys Made King
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean (altar refuge; palace petrification; Athena’s shield)
- Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
- Madness of Heracles: Murder of the Children (Apollodorean, before the Labors)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Hera-sent madness in Thebes *before* service to Eurystheus; Megara’s sons killed; purification then Delphi)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Achelous and Deianeira: Contest for the Bride
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (river-god suitor; shape-shifting combat; broken horn; marriage to Deianeira)
- Nessus and Deianeira: The Centaur’s Poisoned Blood
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (ferry at the Evenus; attempted rape; Hydra-poisoned arrow; dying “love-charm” of blood and semen stored by Deianeira)
- 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)
- Iole at Trachis: Lichas’s Lie and the Truth (Sophocles)
Heroes — Heracles · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Trachiniae* (captive train; Lichas’s false tale; messenger’s exposure; Deianeira recognizes Iole as rival)
- 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)
- Pyre on Mount Oeta: The Death of Heracles
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (Heracles carried to Oeta; pyre built; Philoctetes or Poeas lights it; bow bequeathed; mortal body consumed)
- Apotheosis of Heracles and Marriage to Hebe
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Homeric (immortality after the pyre; reconciliation with Hera; marriage to Hebe; Olympian seat)
- 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)
- Heracles’ Aid in the Gigantomachy
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (oracle that giants fall only if a mortal helps; Heracles shoots and finishes the Giants beside the Olympians)
- Arrival at Athens: Medea’s Poison and Recognition by the Sword
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Medea as Aegeus’s wife plots poison; recognition by sword/sandals; Medea flees)
- 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)
- Ariadne on Naxos: Abandonment and Dionysus
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean main line (Theseus leaves Ariadne on Naxos/Dia; Dionysus takes her); alternate classical strands noted
- 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 in Hades: The Attempt on Persephone
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (descent to seize Persephone; binding on the Chair of Forgetfulness; Heracles frees Theseus)
- 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)
- Return to Iolcus and the Death of Pelias (Medea’s Rejuvenation Trick)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (fleece returned; daughters of Pelias deceived; Pelias boiled; exile)
- Corinth: Jason, Medea, Glauce, and the Deaths of the Children (Euripides)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (aftermath) · Attic tragic — Euripides *Medea* (divorce for Glauce; poisoned gifts; filicide; Aegeus; escape to Athens)
- Death of Meleager: The Brand of the Fates (Althaea)
Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean / Bacchylidean (Moirae’s brand; Althaea burns it after the uncles’ deaths)
- Meleager in Homer: Phoenix’s Digression (*Iliad* 9)
Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Homeric — Phoenix to Achilles (anger, withdrawal, city’s peril; no Fate-brand)
- Atalanta: Birth, Exposure, and the Bear
Heroes — Atalanta · Apollodorean Arcadian (Iasus; exposure; bear; hunters; vow of virginity)
- Atalanta’s Footrace: Melanion and the Golden Apples
Heroes — Atalanta · Apollodorean Greek (Melanion; Aphrodite’s apples; metamorphosis into lions)
- Bellerophon: Anteia’s False Accusation, Proetus, Iobates, and the Chimera
Heroes — Bellerophon · Homeric / Apollodorean (Potiphar’s-wife pattern; sealed tokens; Chimera slain)
- Orpheus and Eurydice: The Descent
Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean Greek notice (+ Plato); fuller narrative is largely Roman (Vergil/Ovid)—labeled
- Niobe: Apollo and Artemis Slaughter Her Children
Heroes — Niobe (Theban / Lydian) · Apollodorean / Homeric (boast over Leto; children shot; stone on Sipylus)
- Pelops and Oenomaus: The Chariot Race for Hippodamia
Heroes — Tantalids / Pelops (Trojan genealogy gateway) · Apollodorean (Myrtilus’s sabotage; winged horses from Poseidon; curse on the Pelopids)
- Cadmus and the Founding of Thebes (Dragon’s Teeth)
Heroes — Cadmus / Theban cycle gateway · Apollodorean (Europa search; Delphic cow; Castalian dragon; Spartoi; Harmonia)
- Birth and Exposure of Oedipus; Rearing by Polybus and Merope
Theban · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (Cithaeron exposure; Corinthian fosterage)
- The Sphinx’s Riddle; Oedipus King; Marriage to Jocasta
Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (riddle solved; throne and queen as prize)
- Blinding of Oedipus and Exile from Thebes
Theban · Sophoclean (*OT* end) / Apollodorean (exile timing variants)
- The Seven Against Thebes: March and Battle
Theban · Aeschylean / Apollodorean (seven champions; seven gates)
- Antigone, the Burial of Polynices, and Creon’s Edict
Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (+ Apollodorean aftermath)
- Amphion and Zethus: The Walls of Thebes
Theban · Apollodorean / Homeric (*Odyssey* Antiope) / Pausanian
- Alcmaeon, Eriphyle, and the Necklace of Harmonia
Theban — Epigoni aftermath / Harmonia’s heirloom curse · Apollodorean (matricide; purification; Callirrhoe; death)
- Telephus: Auge, Birth, and the Mysian Kingship
Heroes — Heraclean offspring / Mysian; Trojan prelude · Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Auge* / *Telephus* notices; Hesiodic *Catalogue*)
- Atreus and Thyestes: The Golden Lamb and the Adultery
Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean succession · Apollodorean / tragic (golden lamb; Aerope’s adultery; exile)
- Admetus’s Wedding: Artemis Neglected and the Serpents in the Chamber
Heroes — Thessalian / Admetus–Alcestis prelude · Apollodorean (wedding omission; Artemis’s wrath; Apollo’s remedy)
- 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)
- Myrtilus: Betrayal, Murder, and the Curse on the Pelopids
Heroes — Tantalids / Pelopid curse · Apollodorean / tragic (Myrtilus as hinge of the house-curse)
- Peleus, Acastus, and Astydameia
Heroes — Aeacid / Thessalian (Peleus before Thetis) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (false accusation; abandonment among centaurs)
- Achilles’ Childhood: Chiron, Scyros, Deidamia, and the Birth of Pyrrhus
Heroes — Aeacid / Achilles youth (pre-Troy) · Apollodorean / cyclic / Statius-labeled Roman enrichment for Scyros household
- Nephele and Athamas: The Cloud-Wife and Ino’s Intrigue
Heroes — Aeolid / Golden Fleece origin (pre-Argonautica) · Apollodorean / handbook (Nephele; Ino’s plot; famine and oracle)
- Aeson and Pelias: Usurpation of Iolcus
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus prelude) · Apollodorean / Pindaric Aeolid (Cretheus; Tyro; Pelias seizes the throne)
- Cecrops: Earth-Born Founder of Athens
Heroes — Attic kings / foundation · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic (autochthon; first king; contest judge)
- Stheneboea’s Suicide after Bellerophon’s Rejection (Euripides)
Heroes — Bellerophon aftermath / tragic heroine · Euripidean (lost *Stheneboea*; reconstructed from fragments and hypothesis)
- Adrastus of Argos: Kingship, Arion, and Survival
Heroes — Theban / Argive (Seven Against Thebes) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / tragic
- Capaneus: Blasphemy and the Thunderbolt
Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
- Eurydice of Thebes: Suicide after Haemon (Sophocles)
Heroes — Theban / Antigone aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone*
- Polynices and Argia (Argeia): Marriage at Argos
Heroes — Theban / Argive alliance · Apollodorean / tragic / cyclic (Adrastus’s daughters; lion and boar)
- Argia Helps Bury Polynices (Variant)
Heroes — Theban / burial aftermath · Handbook / post-Sophoclean variant (Argia with Antigone)
- Diomedes after Thebes: Epigonus and Argive King
Heroes — Theban / Epigoni / Argive · Apollodorean / Homeric — Epigonus who becomes Trojan-war Argive leader
- Marriage of Pylades and Electra
Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath (also Trojan nostoi close) · Euripidean / Apollodorean handbook
- Chrysothemis (Sophocles’ *Electra*)
Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia (Electra’s sister) · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (foil sister)
- Shade of Agamemnon Warns Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Atreid / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Agamemnon’s shade in the underworld consultation
- Shade of Heracles in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Heracles / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — eidolon in Hades while the god feasts on Olympus
- Elpenor’s Shade and Burial Plea (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / companions of Odysseus · Homeric — first shade at the trench; plea for burial rites
- Eriphyle Bribed: Amphiaraus Forced against Thebes
Heroes — Seven Against Thebes / Argive muster · Apollodorean / cyclic — necklace of Harmonia as bribe
- Laodamia and Protesilaus: Brief Reunion and Death
Heroes — Thessalian / Trojan first-landing aftermath · Apollodorean / tragic / Ovid-labeled Roman for the statue and second death
- Shade of Tiresias Advises Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / Theban seer in Hades · Homeric — Tiresias at the blood-trench
- Alcmaeon and Callirhoe: The Necklace’s Second Curse
Heroes — Epigoni aftermath / Alcmaeon’s wanderings · Apollodorean — Psophis to Achelous; Callirhoe’s demand; death in Psophis
- Antigone Entombed Alive (Sophocles)
Heroes — Theban / Antigone · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (cave tomb and suicide)
- Wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia: The Necklace and the Robe
Heroes — Theban foundation / Cadmus · Apollodorean / Pausanian — divine wedding gifts; cursed heirlooms
- Perseus, Phineus, and the Wedding Battle
Heroes — Perseus / Andromeda aftermath · Apollodorean (+ Ovid-labeled Roman battle spectacle)
- Jocasta’s Suicide (*Oedipus Tyrannus*)
Heroes — Theban / Oedipus · Attic tragic — Sophocles *OT* (Jocasta hangs herself when the truth is clear)
- Amphion’s Death after Niobe’s Children Fall
Heroes — Theban / Niobid aftermath · Apollodorean — Amphion kills himself (or is killed) when Apollo and Artemis slay the Niobids
- Bias, Pero, and the Cattle of Phylacus
Heroes — Melampodid / Pylian bride-price · Apollodorean / Odyssey genealogical — Melampus wins Pero for Bias
- Cadmus and Harmonia: Serpents in Illyria
Heroes — Theban founders / Illyrian end / metamorphosis · Apollodorean / Euripidean / Apollonian notices — exile, Encheleans, serpent forms
- Tenes of Tenedos
Heroes / Trojan periphery — Tenedian eponym / Achilles cycle · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cyclic notices — false accusation; exile; Achilles’ killing
- Abduction of the Leucippides
Heroes / Spartan — Dioscuri / Apharetidae rivalry · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Cypria — Phoebe and Hilaeira carried off
- Athamas and Themisto
Heroes — Athamantid / Boeotian–Thessalian tragedy · Apollodorean / Hyginus — Themisto’s plot; mistaken filicide; Athamas’s further ruin
- Electryon’s Death and Amphitryon’s Exile
Heroes — Amphitryon / Heracles prelude / Mycenaean house · Apollodorean — accidental killing of Electryon; exile to Thebes; betrothal to Alcmene
- Hyllus Marries Iole
Heroes — Heracles aftermath / Trachiniae close / Heraclid marriage · Sophoclean / Apollodorean — dying Heracles exacts Hyllus’s marriage to Iole
- Alcmaeon at Psophis: Phegeus and the Necklace
Heroes — Epigoni aftermath / Alcmaeon cycle / Arcadian Psophis · Apollodorean — Phegeus shelters Alcmaeon; necklace of Harmonia; murder and revenge
- Acarnan and Amphoterus: The Naming of Acarnania
Heroes — Alcmaeon aftermath / Acarnanian eponym · Apollodorean / Thucydidean digression — sons of Alcmaeon and Callirhoe avenge and name the land
- Evadne Leaps onto Capaneus’s Pyre
Heroes — Seven against Thebes aftermath / Euripidean *Suppliants* · Euripidean — widow’s suttee at Eleusis against her father’s will
- Gelanor Yields Argos to Danaus
Heroes / Argive — Danaid arrival and transfer of kingship · Apollodorean / Pausanian — last pre-Danaid king; omen of the wolf
- Rhadamanthys and Alcmene in Boeotia
Heroes — after Heracles / Cretan lawgiver in Boeotia · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Rhadamanthys weds Alcmene; settles at Ocaleae or Haliartus
- 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
- Birth, Exposure, and Recognition of Paris
Trojan · Apollodorean / tragic-cyclic (Hecuba’s dream; Idaean exposure; athletic recognition)
- Oath of Tyndareus and the Gathering of the Greeks
Trojan · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* strand (+ *Cypria* muster)
- 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)
- Landing at Troy: Protesilaus and Cycnus
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric Protesilaus notice)
- The Embassy to Achilles
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 9 (with Book 8 as immediate cause)
- Reconciliation; Achilles Returns to Battle
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 19
- Helen Recovered by Menelaus
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades*; Homeric *Odyssey* 4)
- Menelaus and Helen: Wandering before Sparta (*Odyssey* 4)
Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 4 (+ *Nostoi* / Apollodorean Egypt)
- Telemachy: Athena at Ithaca; Telemachus Seeks News (*Odyssey* 1–4)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 1–4 (Telemachy)
- Nekyia: Odysseus in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 11 (+ Apollodorean summary)
- Return to Ithaca: Disguise and Eumaeus (*Odyssey* 13–16)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 13–16 (compressed)
- Bow Contest and Slaughter of the Suitors (*Odyssey* 21–22)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 21–22 (+ Apollodorean)
- Recognition by Penelope: The Marriage Bed (*Odyssey* 23)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 23
- Laertes; End of the Blood-Feud (*Odyssey* 24)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24 (+ Apollodorean close)
- Electra (Euripides)
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Euripides *Electra* (vs. Sophocles 057 and Aeschylus 056)
- Andromache (Euripides)
Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Neoptolemus · Attic tragic — Euripides *Andromache*
- Trojan Women (Euripides)
Trojan — Sack aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Troades* (*Trojan Women*)
- Telegony: Telegonus Kills Odysseus (Epic Cycle End)
Trojan — Epic Cycle close / post-*Odyssey* · Epic Cycle — *Telegony* (Proclus summary; Eugammon of Cyrene attrib.)
- Achilles and Helen Meet (Cypria)
Trojan — Cypria interlude · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus)
- Nostoi: Diomedes in Aetolia and Italy
Trojan cycle — Returns (*Nostoi*) · Epic Cycle / Apollodorean / local Italian Greek notices (Daunia; Islands of Diomedes)
- Teucer’s Exile from Salamis and the Founding of Cyprian Salamis
Trojan — Nostoi / Aeacid aftermath · Tragic / Apollodorean / Pausanian (Telamon’s rejection; Cyprus foundation)
- Death of Neoptolemus at Delphi
Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Aeacid end · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Andromache* messenger); Delphic cult
- 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)
- Antenor Spared at the Sack of Troy
Trojan — Sack / guest-friendship and survival · Epic Cycle / Apollodorean / Homeric background (Antenor as peace-counselor; spared for hospitality)
- Creusa’s Death at Troy (Vergil-Labeled)
Trojan — Sack / Aeneas escape (Roman transmission) · **Roman** — Vergil, *Aeneid* 2 (labeled); Greek notices of Aeneas’s escape lack this full Creusa episode
- Deiphobus Marries Helen; Death in the Sack
Trojan — Priamid / sack · Epic Cycle (*Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis*) / Apollodorean / Vergilian enrichment (labeled where Roman)
- Oenone and Paris: Abandonment, Refused Healing, Death
Trojan — Paris’s first love / death appendix · Apollodorean / Hellenistic–tragic (Oenone as healer-nymph)
- Andromache Allotted to Neoptolemus after the Sack
Trojan — Sack / division of spoils · Epic Cycle / Euripidean / Apollodorean
- Division of the Trojan Women: Brief Allotments
Trojan — Sack / spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean / cyclic
- Ascanius (Iulus): Brief Greek Notices
Trojan — Aeneas’s line / aftermath · Homeric / Hymnic / Apollodorean / Hellanican (Greek notices; Roman Iulus labeled)
- Andromache Learns Hector Is Dead (*Iliad* 22)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 22 end) — recognition from the wall
- Iris Summons Helen to the Wall (*Iliad* 3)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — Iris (as Laodice) fetches Helen for the teichoscopia
- Aphrodite Forces Helen to Paris’s Chamber (*Iliad* 3)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — Aphrodite compels Helen after the duel
- Argus the Dog Recognizes Odysseus (*Odyssey* 17)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Argus’s recognition and death
- Eurycleia Washes Odysseus’s Feet: The Scar (*Odyssey* 19)
Trojan — Odyssey / recognition on Ithaca · Homeric — nurse’s recognition by the boar-scar
- Penelope’s Bow Contest (*Odyssey* 21)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — bow contest isolated from the slaughter in Book 22
- Slaughter of the Suitors (*Odyssey* 22)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — mnesterophonia isolated from the bow contest
- Irus the Beggar: Boxing in the Palace (*Odyssey* 18)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Odysseus (disguised) vs. Irus
- Penelope’s Shroud: The Web Trick (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / Ithaca during Odysseus’s absence · Homeric — shroud for Laertes; ruse told and exposed
- Telemachus at Sparta: Menelaus and Helen (*Odyssey* 4)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — Spartan visit isolated from the Telemachy overview
- Melanthius the Goatherd (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — disloyal goatherd isolated from Eumaeus and the slaughter
- Nausicaa Meets Odysseus (*Odyssey* 6)
Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacians · Homeric — river meeting and guidance isolated from Alcinous’s hall
- Penelope’s Bed Test: Recognition of Odysseus (*Odyssey* 23)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — olive-bed token isolated from the slaughter and Laertes
- Eumaeus’s Hospitality to the Beggar Odysseus (*Odyssey* 14)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — swineherd’s hut; food, cloak, and loyal speech
- Penelope’s Dream of the Geese and the Eagle (*Odyssey* 19)
Trojan — Odyssey / recognition on Ithaca · Homeric — dream omen; Odysseus as eagle; suitors as geese
- 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
- Theoclymenus Prophesies the Suitors’ Doom (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Melampodid seer; bird-omen and hall vision
- The Shield of Achilles: Homeric Ekphrasis (*Iliad* 18)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 18 · Homeric — Hephaestus’s cosmic and civic shield
- 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
- 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
- Suitors’ Shades and Amphimedon’s Tale (*Odyssey* 24)
Trojan — Odyssey / Book 24 / underworld aftermath · Homeric — Hermes leads the suitors; Amphimedon narrates to Agamemnon
- Helenus and Andromache in Epirus: The Molossian Settlement
Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Epirote foundation · Apollodorean / Pausanian — after Neoptolemus’s death Helenus holds Andromache; Molossian line
- Arete: Phaeacian Queen and Counselor (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / Scheria · Homeric — Arete’s authority among the Phaeacians; Odysseus’s appeal
- Athena as Mentor (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / divine guidance of Telemachus and Odysseus · Homeric — Athena’s recurring disguise as Odysseus’s Ithacan friend Mentor
- Philoetius the Loyal Cowherd (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / Ithacan household / mnesterophonia · Homeric — cattle-herd who stands with Odysseus against the suitors
- The Suitors Ambush Telemachus (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / suitors’ plot · Homeric — Antinous’s ship lies in wait at Asteris; Athena saves the return
- Helen Drugs the Wine with Nepenthe (*Odyssey* 4)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / Sparta · Homeric — Helen’s Egyptian drug that ends grief in the mixing-bowl
- Melantho: The Disloyal Maid (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / Ithacan household / suitors · Homeric — Melantho insults the beggar Odysseus; sister of Melanthius
- Phemius the Singer Spared (*Odyssey* 22)
Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / mercy · Homeric — Phemius pleads; Telemachus intercedes; Odysseus spares the bard
- Medon the Herald Spared (*Odyssey* 22)
Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / mercy · Homeric — Medon hides under a chair; Telemachus saves him with Phemius
- Halitherses Prophesies in the Ithacan Assembly (*Odyssey* 2)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / Ithacan politics · Homeric — Halitherses reads the bird-omen; Eurymachus scorns him
- 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
- Punishment of Melanthius the Goatherd (*Odyssey* 22)
Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / household justice · Homeric — Melanthius fetches arms for the suitors; is tortured and mutilated
- Hanging of the Disloyal Maidservants (*Odyssey* 22)
Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / household purge · Homeric — Eurycleia counts twelve guilty maids; Telemachus hangs them
- Athena Disguises Odysseus as a Beggar (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / Ithaca recognition sequence / divine metamorphosis · Homeric — withered flesh, rags, and staff; later restorations
- Tiresias’s Prophecy of the Inland Oar (*Odyssey* 11)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nekyia / nostos beyond Ithaca · Homeric — Poseidon’s wrath; Helios’s cattle warning; oar mistaken for winnowing-fan; gentle death from the sea
- Catalogue of Heroines in the Nekyia (*Odyssey* 11)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nekyia / heroic genealogy in Hades · Homeric — blood-drinking shades of famous women; Hesiodic-style catalogue embedded in nostos
- Phoenix’s Meleager Paradeigma (*Iliad* 9)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Meleager’s wrath as warning paradeigma inside Phoenix’s speech
- Hera Bribes Hypnos to Lull Zeus (*Iliad* 14)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Dios apate prelude · Homeric — Sleep’s fear of Zeus; promise of Pasithea; lull on Ida
- 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
- Othryoneus’s Betrothal Boast and Death
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Idomeneus’s aristeia · Homeric — Cabesus ally seeks Cassandra; Idomeneus kills him
- Procne, Philomela, and Tereus
Local and lesser — Attic / Thracian metamorphosis · Apollodorean (Tereus; tongue; Itys; bird metamorphoses); tragic (*Tereus* of Sophocles, lost)
- Endymion and Selene
Local and lesser — Elian / Carian sleep myth · Apollodorean / Pausanian (eternal sleep; Selene’s visits); Hesiodic genealogy of Endymion as Elian king
- Attis and Cybele (Classical Greek Notices)
Local and lesser — Phrygian cult in Greek reception · Classical Greek notices of a Phrygian myth; fuller narrative often Hellenistic/Roman—labeled where not Archaic Greek
- Oreithyia and Boreas
Local and lesser — Attic / Thracian wind myth · Apollodorean / Platonic Attic (abduction from the Ilissus); Herodotus on Boreas as Athenian ally
- Procris and Cephalus (Apollodorus)
Local and lesser — Attic / Cephallenian marital tragedy · Apollodorean (gifts of Artemis; accidental killing); Pherecydes / tragic fragments
- Scylla and Nisus: The Purple Lock
Local and lesser — Megarian / Cretan war · Apollodorean / Pausanian (+ Ciris tradition; Ovid labeled Roman for fullest metamorphosis)
- Pygmalion
Local and lesser — Cypriot · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek notices of Pygmalion as Cypriot king/sculptor vary
- Acontius and Cydippe (Callimachus)
Local and lesser — Cean / Delian · Callimachean (*Aetia*); Aristaenetus and Ovid *Heroides* 20–21 as later expansions
- Amymone and Poseidon: The Lernaean Spring
Local and lesser — Argive / Danaid prelude · Apollodorean / Aeschylean satyr-play tradition (Amymone)
- Belus, Aegyptus, and Danaus: The Setup
Local and lesser — Argive / Io’s descendants · Apollodorean genealogical setup (before the Danaid murders)
- The Danaids: Murder of the Sons of Aegyptus
Local and lesser — Argive · Apollodorean (+ Aeschylean *Suppliants* frame; underworld punishment tradition)
- Lynceus and Hypermnestra: Survival and the Argive Line
Local and lesser — Argive succession · Apollodorean / tragic (*Danaid* trilogy aftermath); Pausanian cult notices
- 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
- Eos and Tithonus
Local and lesser — Dawn / Trojan royal house · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (+ Homeric *Iliad* / *Odyssey* notices; Apollodorean genealogy)
- Pasiphaë and the Bull
Local and lesser — Cretan / Minos cycle · Apollodorean (Poseidon’s bull; Daedalus’s cow; birth of the Minotaur)
- Sisyphus: Cheating Death and the Rolling Stone
Local and lesser — Corinthian / underworld punishment · Homeric punishment + Apollodorean / Pherecydian crimes (Thanatos bound; Persephone tricked)
- The Danaids’ Punishment: Leaky Jars in the Underworld
Local and lesser — Argive / underworld punishment · Classical underworld tradition (lyric, tragic, and handbook) attached to the Danaid crime
- 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
- Caeneus: Gender Change and Invulnerable Lapith
Local and lesser — Lapith / Centauromachy · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* / Ovid-labeled (Caenis; Poseidon; pine trees)
- Birth of Teucer: Hesione and Telamon
Local and lesser — Salaminian / Trojan prelude (Aeacid line) · Apollodorean (Hesione awarded to Telamon; Teucer as bastard half-brother of Ajax)
- Dryope (Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Oechalian / dryad metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek name and lotus/tree aetiology
- Cinyras and Myrrha
Local and lesser — Cypriot kingship / Adonis prelude · Apollodorean / Pindaric notices of Cinyras; Myrrha crime as household disaster
- Candaules and Gyges (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian royal legend (Herodotean) · Herodotean classical legend (origin of Mermnad dynasty)
- Rhoeo and Anius: Delian Myths
Local and lesser — Delian / Apolline local myth · Apollodorean / Diodoran / cyclic notices (Rhoeo; Anius; Oenotropae)
- Iphis and Ianthe (Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Cretan metamorphosis / marriage · **Roman** transmission (Ovid) of a Cretan sex-change and marriage tale
- Leucippus of Phaestus (Gender Change)
Local and lesser — Cretan / Leto cult aetiology · Greek (Antoninus Liberalis from Nicander); Cretan local
- Ariadne’s Crown among the Stars (Corona Borealis)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Dionysiac–Thesean · Eratosthenic / Hyginus astral (+ Apollodorean / Hesiodic marriage frame)
- Hesperides as Atlas’s Daughters (Genealogy)
Local and lesser — Atlasid genealogy / western nymphs · Hesiodic (Night-born) vs. mythographic Atlasid
- Eos Abducts Cephalus
Local and lesser — Dawn’s mortal loves / Attic Cephalus cycle · Euripidean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices / Apollodorean allusion (+ Pausanian)
- Atys and Adrastus: Death of Croesus’s Son (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian / Herodotus legends · Herodotean — dream, boar-hunt, accidental spear-kill
- Delphinus: The Dolphin of Poseidon and Amphitrite (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Poseidon’s marriage · Catasterismic handbook — dolphin that won Amphitrite for Poseidon
- Rhampsinitus and the Clever Thief (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Egyptian logos in Greek ethnography · Herodotean Egyptian — treasury theft; decapitation; princess-trap; marriage
- Periander and Melissa (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Corinthian tyrant logos / necromantic inquiry · Herodotean — Periander’s crime against Melissa; consultation of the Thesprotian dead
- Euthymus and the Hero of Temesa (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Locrian / South Italian hero combat · Pausanian — haunted Temesa; Homeric sailor-daimon; boxer Euthymus frees the city
- 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