- Reign of Cronus, the Swallowing of the Children, and the Birth of Zeus
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean Cretan enrichment clearly marked)
- 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
- Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Flood and the Stones
Cosmogony / Theogony — flood anthropogony (Hellenic renewal) · Apollodorean (main handbook flood; Parnassus; “bones of the mother”)
- Prometheus Creates Humankind (Later Tradition)
Cosmogony / Theogony — anthropogony (Promethean craft) · Later classical / handbook tradition (distinct from Orphic soot and from Hesiodic ages)
- Rhea’s Stone: Cronus Swallowing the Omphalos-Substitute
Cosmogony / Theogony — birth of Zeus / Delphic aetiology · Hesiodic (+ Pausanian Delphic omphalos notice)
- Rhea, Amalthea, and the Curetes in Crete
Cosmogony / Theogony — birth and hiding of Zeus · Apollodorean Cretan enrichment (+ Hesiodic Crete notice)
- Seafaring and the Pleiades (*Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic star-lore / seafaring · Hesiodic — Pleiades, Sirius, and the season for ships
- 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
- Hermes Kills Argus (Argeiphontes)
Olympian gods / Argive · Apollodorean Argive exploit (Hermes as Argus-slayer); Aeschylean / Ovidian scenic enrichment labeled where Roman
- Dioscuri: Castor’s Death and Shared Immortality
Olympian gods / Spartan Dioscuri · Homeric / Pindaric / Apollodorean (cattle raid; Idas and Lynceus; alternate days)
- Poseidon and Medusa in Athena’s Temple
Olympian gods — Poseidon / Athena / Gorgon origin · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek temple-violation curse aetiology
- Hermes, Herse, and Aglauros (Ovid-Labeled)
Olympian gods — Hermes / Attic Cecropid sisters · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Attic Cecropid jealousy tale; Greek notices of Herse and Aglauros background
- Beheading of Medusa: Birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Hesiodic enrichment (Medusa mortal; Pegasus and Chrysaor from the neck)
- 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)
- Andromeda at Joppa: Local Palestinian Localization
Heroes — Perseus · Local Joppa / Iope (classical travel and geographic notices vs. Apollodorean Ethiopia)
- First Labor: The Nemean Lion
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (invulnerable lion; strangling; Molorchus at Cleonae; skin as armor)
- Eighth Labor: The Mares of Diomedes
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (man-eating Thracian mares; Abderus killed; Diomedes fed to his own horses; founding of Abdera)
- 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)
- Omphale in Lydia: Service and Deeds under the Queen
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (three-year Lydian servitude; Cercopes; Syleus; other Asian deeds; release)
- Sack of Troy: Laomedon Killed and Hesione Given to Telamon
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (post-Omphale expedition; Telamon and Oicles; walls scaled; Laomedon and sons slain; Priam spared; Hesione awarded to Telamon)
- Tokens under the Rock; Decision for the Land Road
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (recognition tokens; Theseus chooses the bandit-ridden Isthmus road over the sea)
- 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)
- Orpheus and Eurydice: The Descent
Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean Greek notice (+ Plato); fuller narrative is largely Roman (Vergil/Ovid)—labeled
- Death of Orpheus: The Maenads
Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean / Pausanian (torn by Thracian/Macedonian women or Maenads; head and lyre)
- Niobe: Apollo and Artemis Slaughter Her Children
Heroes — Niobe (Theban / Lydian) · Apollodorean / Homeric (boast over Leto; children shot; stone on Sipylus)
- Tantalus: Crime and Punishment
Heroes — Tantalids / Pelops · Homeric underworld punishment + Apollodorean crimes (feast of Pelops; theft of nectar/ambrosia)
- Cadmus and the Founding of Thebes (Dragon’s Teeth)
Heroes — Cadmus / Theban cycle gateway · Apollodorean (Europa search; Delphic cow; Castalian dragon; Spartoi; Harmonia)
- Amphion and Zethus: The Walls of Thebes
Theban · Apollodorean / Homeric (*Odyssey* Antiope) / Pausanian
- 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)
- Orestes’ Wanderings and Alternate Purifications (beyond *Eumenides*)
Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Euripidean notices (multi-site cleansing)
- Heracles and the Cercopes
Heroes — Heracles / side adventure (Ephesus–Lydia region) · Apollodorean / comic folklore handbook tradition
- Perseus, Phineus, and the Wedding Battle
Heroes — Perseus / Andromeda aftermath · Apollodorean (+ Ovid-labeled Roman battle spectacle)
- 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
- Agamedes and Trophonius: The Treasury of Hyrieus
Heroes / Boeotian — master builders; prelude to Trophonius’s oracle · Pausanian — removable stone; thefts; decapitation; earth swallows Trophonius
- Landing at Troy: Protesilaus and Cycnus
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric Protesilaus notice)
- Diomedes’ Aristeia: Wounding of Aphrodite and Ares
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 5 (with close of 4 / opening of 6)
- Ajax and Hector: The Day’s Duel and Truce for Burial
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 7
- Trojans at the Ships; Patroclus Pleads for Achilles’ Armor
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 11–16 (compressed arc to Achilles’ concession)
- Sack of Troy: Priam, Astyanax, Cassandra and Ajax Locrian
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades*; Homeric allusions)
- Departure Disasters Begin: Athena’s Wrath and Locrian Ajax
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* / *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades* prologue)
- Cyclops Polyphemus (*Odyssey* 9)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 9 (+ Apollodorean Epitome)
- Return to Ithaca: Disguise and Eumaeus (*Odyssey* 13–16)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 13–16 (compressed)
- Phaeacians: Nausicaa, Alcinous, and the Escort Home (*Odyssey* 6–8)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 6–8
- Death of Palamedes at Troy
Trojan — Cypria / early war · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ tragic and Dictyan elaborations labeled where late)
- Death of Locrian Ajax on the Gyrae Rocks (Detailed)
Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric (*Odyssey* 4) / Apollodorean / Cycle *Nostoi* (+ Euripides *Troades* wrath frame)
- Hecuba Transformed into a Dog
Trojan — Sack aftermath / Hecuba end · Euripidean prophecy + Ovid-labeled metamorphosis / Cynossema aetiology
- Iris Summons the Winds for Patroclus’s Pyre (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / funeral of Patroclus / divine messengers · Homeric (*Iliad* 23)
- Achilles, Aeneas, and Poseidon’s Rescue (*Iliad* 20)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ return / Dardanian fate · Homeric (*Iliad* 20)
- Athena Wounds Ares in the Theomachy (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Athena vs. Ares after the river-fight
- Hera Boxes Artemis’s Ears (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Hera vs. Artemis after Apollo’s refusal
- The Phaeacian Ship Turned to Stone (*Odyssey* 13)
Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacians / Poseidon’s wrath · Homeric — Poseidon petrifies the returning escort ship; Scheria’s future sealed
- Teucer Shoots from Behind Ajax’s Shield (*Iliad*)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Teucer’s archery · Homeric — bastard son of Telamon; archer paired with Ajax’s tower-shield
- Achilles Consoles Priam with Niobe (*Iliad* 24)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Ransom of Hector · Homeric — Niobe’s grief and return to food as consolation paradeigma
- Diomedes Wounds Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Diomedes’ aristeia · Homeric — Athena’s leave; spear to Aphrodite’s wrist; Aeneas rescued
- Epeigeus Slain by Hector
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Myrmidon exile of royal blood; Hector kills him over Sarpedon’s body
- Pygmalion
Local and lesser — Cypriot · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek notices of Pygmalion as Cypriot king/sculptor vary
- Sisyphus: Cheating Death and the Rolling Stone
Local and lesser — Corinthian / underworld punishment · Homeric punishment + Apollodorean / Pherecydian crimes (Thanatos bound; Persephone tricked)
- Caeneus: Gender Change and Invulnerable Lapith
Local and lesser — Lapith / Centauromachy · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* / Ovid-labeled (Caenis; Poseidon; pine trees)
- Niobe’s Weeping Rock on Sipylus (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Lydian / Anatolian aetiology · Pausanian local — rock on Mount Sipylus still weeping
- Trophonius: Oracle of Lebadeia
Local and lesser — Boeotian oracle / hero-cult · Pausanian — descent into the chasm of Trophonius
- Lyra: The Lyre of Orpheus (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orpheus · Catasterismic handbook — Orpheus’s lyre placed among the stars
- Rhampsinitus and the Clever Thief (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Egyptian logos in Greek ethnography · Herodotean Egyptian — treasury theft; decapitation; princess-trap; marriage
- 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
- 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
- Anaxarete and Iphis (Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Cypriot / Roman metamorphosis / hard-hearted beloved · Roman transmission (Ovid) — stone-hearted maiden; Aphrodite’s vengeance