- 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)
- 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)
- The Gigantomachy: Full Battle (Apollodorus)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian defense of the cosmos · Apollodorean catalogue battle (full divine pairings; Heracles as mortal ally)
- Children of Pontus (Hesiodic Catalogue)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Sea’s brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Pontus’s offspring)
- Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Flood and the Stones
Cosmogony / Theogony — flood anthropogony (Hellenic renewal) · Apollodorean (main handbook flood; Parnassus; “bones of the mother”)
- Birth of the Muses (Mnemosyne and Zeus)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian generation / arts · Hesiodic
- Phorcys and Ceto: Graeae, Gorgons, and Sea-Monster Genealogy
Cosmogony / Theogony — Phorcid sea-monster line · Hesiodic — Phorcys–Ceto brood (zoom on Graeae/Gorgons)
- Coeus and Phoebe: Leto and Asteria
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan oracular / Delian line · Hesiodic — Coeus–Phoebe daughters
- Dike and the Just City (*Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic ethics / Justice · Hesiodic — Dike among mortals; just vs unjust cities
- 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 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)
- 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
- Apollo, the Python, and the Founding of Delphi
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn (Pythian) / Apollodorean
- Zeus and Io
Olympian gods / Argive · Apollodorean Argive (cow; Argus; gadfly; Egypt; Epaphus); Aeschylean tragic enrichment
- Zeus and Leda: Helen and the Dioscuri
Olympian gods / Spartan / Trojan gateway · Apollodorean / Homeric (swan; eggs; dual paternity of Dioscuri and Helen)
- Athena and Arachne
Olympian gods / Lydian metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) — fullest contest narrative; Greek notices of Athena as weaving patron thinner
- Anchises and Aphrodite (Homeric Hymn V)
Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Trojan ancestry · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (5) — full classical narrative
- Echo and Narcissus (Ovid Line)
Olympian gods / local metamorphosis — Echo; Narcissus · Roman transmission (Ovid) — Echo cursed by Hera; composite with Narcissus (distinct from Pausanias’s Thespian Narcissus)
- Dionysus and Lycurgus
Olympian gods — Dionysus · Homeric (*Iliad* 6) / Apollodorean (Edonian persecution; madness; pruning shears)
- Dionysus and the Minyads
Olympian gods — Dionysus / Boeotian resistance · Ovidian Roman narrative (+ Aelian / Plutarch / Antoninus Liberalis Greek notices of the daughters of Minyas)
- The Proetides: Madness and Melampus’s Cure
Olympian gods / Argive — Hera or Dionysus; Melampus cross-link · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* (Proetides; Melampus’s bargain for Argos)
- Coronis and the Crow (Raven): The Informant Bird
Olympian gods / Asclepiad prelude · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue*; Ovid-labeled Roman for white-to-black color change
- Apollo and Hermes: Friendship and Pact (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Apollo / Hermes · Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4) — reconciliation and gift-exchange isolated
- Zeus and Themis: The Hours and the Fates (Hesiod)
Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / order and law · Hesiodic
- Mnemosyne, Titaness of Memory
Olympian gods — Titan generation / memory and song · Hesiodic / Orphic-adjacent cult notices
- Zeus and Eurynome: Birth of the Charites (Graces)
Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / Charites · Hesiodic — Eurynome daughter of Oceanus
- Hermes Steals Apollo’s Cattle (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Hermes / Apollo · Homeric Hymn to Hermes — cattle-theft isolated from birth and lyre-invention
- Apollo and the Spring Telphusa (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Apollo / Delphic foundation · Homeric Hymn (Pythian) — Telphusa’s deceit before the Python
- Eileithyia: Goddess of Childbirth
Olympian gods — Hera’s daughter / birth-aid · Hesiodic / Homeric — Eileithyia (or Eileithyiae) as birth-goddess
- 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
- Homeric Hymn to Earth Mother of All (30)
Olympian / primordial — Gaia / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXX — praise of Earth as mother of all
- Birth of Chiron: Cronus and Philyra
Olympian gods / Titan periphery — Chiron’s origin · Apollodorean / Hellenistic handbook — Cronus as horse; Philyra; centaur sage
- Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Aeacus: Judges of the Dead
Olympian gods / underworld order — judicial afterlife · Homeric / Platonic / Apollodorean — three mortal kings as underworld judges
- Aphrodite, Phaon, and the Lesbian Ferryman
Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Lesbian local legend · Classical prose notices (Aelian / Servius / Palaephatus strand) — ferry gift; youth restored; Sappho leap as later attachment
- Acrisius, Danaë, and the Bronze Chamber: Conception of Perseus
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (Argive oracle; Zeus as golden rain)
- 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)
- Return to Argos and Larissa: Death of Acrisius by the Discus
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean (+ Pausanian Argive enrichment; exchange of kingdoms)
- 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)
- Youth of Heracles: Linus, Cithaeron, Thespius, and the Minyans
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (education; Linus’s death; Cithaeronian lion; Thespius; liberation of Thebes)
- Oracle and the Beginning of Service to Eurystheus
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Delphic command; twelve years at Tiryns; labors as path to immortality)
- Third Labor: The Ceryneian (Cerynitian) Hind
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (golden-horned hind sacred to Artemis; year-long chase; confrontation with Artemis and Apollo)
- Ninth Labor: Hippolyte’s Belt (Hera’s Rumor and the Death of the Queen)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Admete’s desire; Hippolyte first willing; Hera as Amazon spreads rumor; Heracles kills Hippolyte and takes the belt of Ares)
- 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)
- 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)
- Omphale in Lydia: Service and Deeds under the Queen
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (three-year Lydian servitude; Cercopes; Syleus; other Asian deeds; release)
- 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)
- 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)
- Birth of Theseus: Aethra, Aegeus, and Poseidon (Double Paternity)
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan compilation (Trozenian conception; Aegeus and Poseidon both named as fathers)
- Tribute to Minos and the Voyage to Crete
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Androgeus’s death; Athenian tribute of youths and maidens; Theseus volunteers)
- Hippolytus and Phaedra (Euripides)
Heroes — Theseus · Attic tragic — Euripides, *Hippolytus* (Phaedra’s forbidden love; Theseus’s curse; Artemis and Aphrodite)
- Prophecy of Pelias and Jason’s Return with One Sandal
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean / Pindaric (oracle of the one-sandaled man; Anaurus crossing; demand for the Golden Fleece)
- Building of the Argo and Gathering of the Argonauts
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (Athena’s design; Argus the builder; catalogue of heroes)
- Departure and the Women of Lemnos (Hypsipyle)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Lemnian women; Hypsipyle; sojourn and departure)
- Cyzicus and the Doliones: Friendly King Killed by Mistake
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (hospitality by night; mistaken battle; funeral games)
- Phineus and the Harpies; the Boreads; Advice for the Symplegades
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (blind seer; Harpies driven off; guidance for the Clashing Rocks)
- 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)
- 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)
- Atalanta’s Footrace: Melanion and the Golden Apples
Heroes — Atalanta · Apollodorean Greek (Melanion; Aphrodite’s apples; metamorphosis into lions)
- Death of Orpheus: The Maenads
Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean / Pausanian (torn by Thracian/Macedonian women or Maenads; head and lyre)
- Daedalus and Icarus: The Flight from Crete
Heroes — Daedalus · Apollodorean (wings of feathers and wax; Icarus falls; Daedalus to Sicily)
- 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)
- Laius, Chrysippus, and the Oracle against a Son
Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (Pelops curse; Delphic warning; Labdacid doom)
- Birth and Exposure of Oedipus; Rearing by Polybus and Merope
Theban · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (Cithaeron exposure; Corinthian fosterage)
- Delphi and the Murder of Laius at the Crossroads
Theban · Apollodorean / Sophoclean (Phocian / Daulian crossroads)
- The Sphinx’s Riddle; Oedipus King; Marriage to Jocasta
Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (riddle solved; throne and queen as prize)
- Plague at Thebes and the Discovery of the Truth (*Oedipus Tyrannus*)
Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Oedipus Tyrannus* (+ Apollodorean summary)
- Oedipus at Colonus: Arrival, Death, and Heroic Passing
Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Oedipus at Colonus* (+ Apollodorean notice)
- Conflict of Eteocles and Polynices; Exile of Polynices
Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (*Phoenissae*, *OC*, *Seven* backstory)
- The Seven Against Thebes: March and Battle
Theban · Aeschylean / Apollodorean (seven champions; seven gates)
- Mutual Killing of Eteocles and Polynices
Theban · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean (fraternal duel)
- Antigone, the Burial of Polynices, and Creon’s Edict
Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (+ Apollodorean aftermath)
- The Epigoni: The Next Generation’s War on Thebes
Theban · Apollodorean / epic cycle (*Epigoni* tradition)
- Pentheus and Dionysus (*Bacchae*): Theban Cult Myth
Theban · Attic tragic — Euripides *Bacchae* (+ Apollodorean summary)
- Amphiaraus Swallowed by the Earth
Theban — Seven Against Thebes sequel (personal fate of the seer) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (reluctant march; chasm; hero-oracle)
- Alcmaeon, Eriphyle, and the Necklace of Harmonia
Theban — Epigoni aftermath / Harmonia’s heirloom curse · Apollodorean (matricide; purification; Callirrhoe; death)
- Return of the Heraclidae (Heraclids)
Heroes — Heracles aftermath / Dorian foundation · Apollodorean (failed attempts; Temenus; Tisamenus; lots for the Peloponnese)
- Ion and Creusa: Athenian Foundation (Euripides)
Heroes — Attic foundation / Erechtheid line · Attic tragic — Euripides *Ion* (+ Apollodorean genealogy of Xuthus and Ion)
- Telephus: Auge, Birth, and the Mysian Kingship
Heroes — Heraclean offspring / Mysian; Trojan prelude · Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Auge* / *Telephus* notices; Hesiodic *Catalogue*)
- Atreus and Thyestes: The Banquet of Thyestes’ Children
Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean feud · Apollodorean / Aeschylean (feast; recognition; curse)
- Birth of Aegisthus: Thyestes and Pelopia
Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean; prelude to Agamemnon’s murder · Apollodorean / Hyginus (oracle; night rape; sword-token; recognition)
- 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)
- Labdacus and Laius: Lineage Bridge to the Labdacids
Heroes — Theban / Labdacid genealogy · Apollodorean / Pausanian (thin reigns; exile of Laius; restoration after Amphionids)
- 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)
- Athamas’s Madness: From Fleece Intrigue to the Killing of Learchus
Heroes — Aeolid / Athamas house (bridge between fleece origin and Ino’s leap) · Apollodorean (Hera’s madness after Dionysus-nursing; Learchus slain)
- Aeson and Pelias: Usurpation of Iolcus
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus prelude) · Apollodorean / Pindaric Aeolid (Cretheus; Tyro; Pelias seizes the throne)
- Heracles Frees Prometheus
Heroes — Heracles / Titan aftermath · Apollodorean (eagle slain; bonds loosed; Chiron’s immortality traded) — liberation focus
- Erechtheus, Eumolpus, and the Sacrifice of the Daughters
Heroes — Attic kings / Eleusinian war · Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Erechtheus*) / Lycurgan oratory
- Death of Theseus: Lycomedes on Scyros
Heroes — Theseus (end) · Apollodorean / Plutarchan biographical tradition
- Adrastus of Argos: Kingship, Arion, and Survival
Heroes — Theban / Argive (Seven Against Thebes) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / tragic
- Opheltes (Archemorus): Death at Nemea and the Nemean Games
Heroes — Theban / Nemean aetiology · Apollodorean / tragic / Pausanian
- Hypsipyle at Nemea: Exile, Nurse, and Rescue
Heroes — Lemnian / Nemean / Seven Against Thebes · Euripidean (*Hypsipyle*) / Apollodorean
- Parthenopaeus: Death at Thebes
Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
- Creon of Thebes: Tyranny after the Brothers
Heroes — Theban / Creonid rule · Sophoclean / Euripidean / Apollodorean (post-Seven kingship)
- Menoeceus: Voluntary Sacrifice to Save Thebes
Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Euripidean (*Phoenician Women*) / Apollodorean notice
- Ismene: Fate Variants (Antigone’s Sister)
Heroes — Theban / Oedipus’s daughters · Sophoclean survival vs. tragic / handbook death variants
- 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)
- Thersander and the Epigoni Sack of Thebes
Heroes — Theban / Epigoni · Apollodorean / cyclic / Pausanian — Thersander as Polynices’ heir installed
- Orestes’ Purification at Delphi
Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath (also Trojan nostoi) · Aeschylean / Apollodorean handbook (Delphic cleansing)
- Orestes’ Wanderings and Alternate Purifications (beyond *Eumenides*)
Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Euripidean notices (multi-site cleansing)
- Clytemnestra’s Dream (Aeschylus and Sophocles)
Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — dream as omen before the matricide (Aeschylean and Sophoclean variants compared)
- Clytemnestra’s Dream of the Serpent (*Choephoroi*)
Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (serpent nursed at the breast)
- Shade of Agamemnon Warns Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Atreid / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Agamemnon’s shade in the underworld consultation
- Elpenor’s Shade and Burial Plea (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / companions of Odysseus · Homeric — first shade at the trench; plea for burial rites
- Odysseus Meets Anticleia (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / family of Odysseus · Homeric — mother and son at the blood-trench
- 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
- Heracles and the Cercopes
Heroes — Heracles / side adventure (Ephesus–Lydia region) · Apollodorean / comic folklore handbook tradition
- Amphiaraus at Oropos: Hero-Oracle of the Underworld
Heroes — Seven Against Thebes / aftermath cult · Pausanian / Herodotean — incubation oracle after the earth-swallowing
- Antigone Entombed Alive (Sophocles)
Heroes — Theban / Antigone · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (cave tomb and suicide)
- Death of Jason: The Timber of the Argo
Heroes — Jason / Argonautic aftermath · Euripidean prophecy + mythographic fulfillment (Argo’s beam)
- Theseus’s Bones Brought from Scyros to Athens
Heroes — Theseus / Attic hero-cult translation · Plutarchan / Pausanian — Cimon recovers the bones; Theseion
- 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
- Branchus and the Oracle of Didyma
Heroes / local — Milesian–Didymaean seer line / Apolline love · Callimachean / Conon / Strabo / scholia — Branchus beloved of Apollo; Branchidae
- Macaria’s Sacrifice (*Heraclidae*)
Heroes — Heraclidae / Attic tragic asylum · Attic tragic — Euripides *Heraclidae*; voluntary maiden sacrifice for victory
- 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
- Ilus Founds Ilium; the Palladium Falls from Heaven
Heroes — Trojan royal stemma / foundation of Troy’s city · Apollodorean — cow-omen foundation; Zeus’s Palladium; Ilus blinded and healed
- Assaracus, Capys, and Anchises: The Junior Trojan Stem
Heroes — Trojan royal stemma / Aeneas’s paternal line · Apollodorean / Homeric — Assaracus branch parallel to Ilus–Laomedon–Priam
- Athamas and Themisto
Heroes — Athamantid / Boeotian–Thessalian tragedy · Apollodorean / Hyginus — Themisto’s plot; mistaken filicide; Athamas’s further ruin
- Melampus in Prison: The Cure of Iphiclus
Heroes — Melampus / Neleid–Iolcian seers / Phylace · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* — woodworms prophesy; Melampus heals Iphiclus’s impotence
- Oxylus Guides the Heraclidae into Elis
Heroes — Return of the Heraclidae / Eleian foundation · Pausanian / Apollodorean — one-eyed Oxylus as guide; bargain for Elis
- Alcmaeon at Psophis: Phegeus and the Necklace
Heroes — Epigoni aftermath / Alcmaeon cycle / Arcadian Psophis · Apollodorean — Phegeus shelters Alcmaeon; necklace of Harmonia; murder and revenge
- Sybaris (Lamia) of Mount Cirphis
Heroes / local monster — Delphic / Phocian aetiology · Antoninus Liberalis (from Nicander) — cave-monster; youth-tribute; Eurybatus destroys her
- Gelanor Yields Argos to Danaus
Heroes / Argive — Danaid arrival and transfer of kingship · Apollodorean / Pausanian — last pre-Danaid king; omen of the wolf
- Euphemus and the Clod of Libya
Heroes — Argonautica / Theran–Cyrenean colonial charter · Apollonian / Pindaric — Triton gives Euphemus a clod; destiny of Thera and Cyrene
- Agamedes and Trophonius: The Treasury of Hyrieus
Heroes / Boeotian — master builders; prelude to Trophonius’s oracle · Pausanian — removable stone; thefts; decapitation; earth swallows Trophonius
- Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: Eris and the Apple of Discord
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Pindaric wedding background)
- Abduction (Elopement) of Helen: Paris at Sparta
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (Aphrodite’s gift; departure with treasure; Homeric regret vs. willing-flight noted)
- Odysseus’s Feigned Madness and Palamedes
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (recruitment ruse; Palamedes’s test)
- 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)
- Troilus Slain by Achilles
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ tragic and archaic pictorial tradition)
- Zeus’s Promise to Thetis and the False Dream
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 1–2 (divine plot; Agamemnon’s dream; army tested)
- Hector and Andromache at the Scaean Gates
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 6 (city interlude; farewell)
- Ajax and Hector: The Day’s Duel and Truce for Burial
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 7
- The Embassy to Achilles
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 9 (with Book 8 as immediate cause)
- The Doloneia: Night Raid of Odysseus and Diomedes
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 10 (Doloneia)
- Patroclus in Achilles’ Armor; Death at Hector’s Hands
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 16
- Reconciliation; Achilles Returns to Battle
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 19
- Achilles’ Aristeia and the Death of Hector
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 20–22
- Ransom of Hector: Priam in Achilles’ Tent
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 24
- Penthesilea the Amazon; Achilles and Thersites
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ later classical Thersites episode)
- Death of Achilles: Paris and Apollo
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric foreshadowing)
- Fetching Philoctetes: Bow of Heracles Returned to the War
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Attic tragic — Sophocles *Philoctetes*
- Neoptolemus Fetched; Death of Paris by Philoctetes’ Bow
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
- The Wooden Horse: Building and Entry
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric *Odyssey* reminiscence)
- Sinon and Laocoön: Persuasion and Omen before the Sack
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Roman Vergilian transmission labeled for Laocoön)
- Sack of Troy: Priam, Astyanax, Cassandra and Ajax Locrian
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades*; Homeric allusions)
- Division of Spoils; Sacrifice of Polyxena
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Euripides *Hecuba* / *Troades*
- Departure Disasters Begin: Athena’s Wrath and Locrian Ajax
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* / *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades* prologue)
- Agamemnon’s Return and Murder (Aeschylus / Nostoi)
Trojan — Nostoi · Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean + Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*
- Aeneas’s Escape from Troy (Greek Notices; Vergil Labeled)
Trojan — Sack aftermath / western foundation legend · Homeric / cyclic / Apollodorean Greek notices + **Roman** Vergilian expansion labeled
- Telemachy: Athena at Ithaca; Telemachus Seeks News (*Odyssey* 1–4)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 1–4 (Telemachy)
- Circe on Aeaea (*Odyssey* 10)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 10.135–574 (+ Apollodorean)
- Nekyia: Odysseus in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 11 (+ Apollodorean summary)
- Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis; Cattle of Helios (*Odyssey* 12)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 12 (+ Apollodorean)
- Recognition by Penelope: The Marriage Bed (*Odyssey* 23)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 23
- Orestes Avenges Agamemnon (*Choephoroi* / Libation Bearers)
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (+ Homeric / Apollodorean revenge notice)
- The Furies and the Trial at Athens (*Eumenides*)
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Eumenides*
- Helen’s Eidolon: The Phantom at Troy (Stesichorus / Euripides)
Trojan — variant of Helen’s role in the war · Stesichorean palinode + Euripides *Helen* (eidolon at Troy; real Helen in Egypt)
- Electra (Euripides)
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Euripides *Electra* (vs. Sophocles 057 and Aeschylus 056)
- Trojan Women (Euripides)
Trojan — Sack aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Troades* (*Trojan Women*)
- Hecuba: Polymestor and Polydorus (Euripides)
Trojan — Sack aftermath / early nostos · Attic tragic — Euripides *Hecuba* (Polymestor–Polydorus plot; Polyxena cross-ref 038)
- Death of Locrian Ajax on the Gyrae Rocks (Detailed)
Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric (*Odyssey* 4) / Apollodorean / Cycle *Nostoi* (+ Euripides *Troades* wrath frame)
- 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
- Cassandra: Apollo’s Gift and Curse of Unbelieved Prophecy
Trojan — Priamid / Apolline prophecy · Aeschylean / Apollodorean / cyclic (gift of prophecy; curse of disbelief)
- Rhesus (Play Attributed to Euripides)
Trojan — Iliadic night / Thracian ally · Attic tragic — *Rhesus* (transmitted with Euripides; authorship disputed in antiquity and modernly)
- Iphigenia at Aulis (Euripides) — Completed Kill / Ambiguous End
Trojan — Aulis sacrifice (tragic version) · Attic tragic — Euripides *Iphigenia at Aulis* (as distinct from *Cypria* deer-rescue in 007)
- 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
- Hecuba Transformed into a Dog
Trojan — Sack aftermath / Hecuba end · Euripidean prophecy + Ovid-labeled metamorphosis / Cynossema aetiology
- 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)
- Theft of the Palladium (Diomedes and Odysseus)
Trojan — Little Iliad / sack prelude · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / Apollodorean (Diomedes and Odysseus steal Athena’s image)
- Bones of Pelops Brought to Troy
Trojan — Little Iliad / fall requirements · Apollodorean / cyclic handbook (Pelops’s bones among the conditions of capture)
- Deiphobus Marries Helen; Death in the Sack
Trojan — Priamid / sack · Epic Cycle (*Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis*) / Apollodorean / Vergilian enrichment (labeled where Roman)
- Heroes Inside the Wooden Horse (Catalogue)
Trojan — Sack prelude / wooden horse · Epic Cycle / Homeric reminiscence / Apollodorean; Vergilian list labeled 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
- Hecuba Allotted to Odysseus
Trojan — Sack / division of spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean
- Division of the Trojan Women: Brief Allotments
Trojan — Sack / spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean / cyclic
- Idomeneus and the Vow (Human Sacrifice / Exile)
Trojan — Nostoi / Cretan return · Apollodorean / Servian–handbook nostos (vow; plague; exile)
- Cassandra’s Prophecies Ignored at Troy
Trojan — Priamid prophecy / sack prelude · Cyclic / tragic / Apollodorean (warnings unheeded in the city)
- Cassandra’s Prophetic Ravings at Mycenae (Aeschylus)
Trojan — Nostoi / Agamemnon’s return · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*
- Thersites Rebukes Agamemnon (Iliad 2)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achaean assembly · Homeric (*Iliad* 2) — assembly abuse; Odysseus’s suppression
- Astyanax: Death Variants (Neoptolemus vs. Odysseus)
Trojan — Sack / Hector’s heir · Cyclic / Apollodorean / tragic — killer variants isolated
- Achilles, Aeneas, and Poseidon’s Rescue (*Iliad* 20)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ return / Dardanian fate · Homeric (*Iliad* 20)
- Apollo as Agenor: Decoy That Lures Achilles from the Walls (*Iliad* 21–22)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / lead-in to Hector’s death · Homeric (*Iliad* 21.544–611; transition into 22)
- Hector’s Monologue before Achilles (*Iliad* 22)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Hector’s last stand · Homeric (*Iliad* 22.90–130, and the speech-exchange at 248–272 before the final fight)
- 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)
- Priam’s Night Journey to Achilles (*Iliad* 24)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 24) — crossing of the plain by night
- Andromache’s Lament for Hector (*Iliad* 22)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 22) — widow’s speech from the wall
- 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
- Helen’s Teichoscopia: Naming the Greek Heroes (*Iliad* 3)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — wall-viewing (teichoscopia) before the Paris–Menelaus duel
- Aphrodite Forces Helen to Paris’s Chamber (*Iliad* 3)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — Aphrodite compels Helen after the duel
- Paris Wounds Diomedes (*Iliad* 11)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 · Homeric — Paris’s arrow ends Diomedes’ fighting day
- Argus the Dog Recognizes Odysseus (*Odyssey* 17)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Argus’s recognition and death
- Raid on the Cicones at Ismarus (*Odyssey* 9)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings begin · Homeric — first post-Troy disaster in Odysseus’s apologue
- Eurycleia Washes Odysseus’s Feet: The Scar (*Odyssey* 19)
Trojan — Odyssey / recognition on Ithaca · Homeric — nurse’s recognition by the boar-scar
- Cattle of Helios on Thrinacia (*Odyssey* 12)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Thrinacia sacrilege and shipwreck isolated from *Odyssey* 12
- 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
- Priam Clasps Achilles’ Knees (*Iliad* 24)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric — tent recognition, shared weeping, and return of the body
- Funeral Games for Patroclus: The Javelin (Agamemnon Honored) (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — javelin prize awarded to Agamemnon without a cast
- 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
- Catalogue of Ships (*Iliad* 2)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achaean muster · Homeric — Boeotia-first catalogue of Achaean contingents
- Xanthus and Balius: Achilles’ Talking Horses (*Iliad* 19)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ return to battle · Homeric — immortal horses prophesy Achilles’ death
- Ghost of Achilles Demands Polyxena
Trojan — Cyclic *Nostoi* / *Iliou Persis* aftermath / Euripidean · Cyclic / Euripidean — Achilles’ shade requires Polyxena’s sacrifice
- Briseis Returned: Her Lament for Patroclus (*Iliad* 19)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / reconciliation · Homeric — restitution of Briseis; her goos over Patroclus
- Odysseus’s Speech in the Embassy (*Iliad* 9)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Odysseus’s opening offer and appeal
- Menelaus Wrestles Proteus in Egypt (*Odyssey* 4)
Trojan — Odyssey / nostoi / Telemachy · Homeric — Proteus of Pharos; Egyptian detention
- Theoclymenus Prophesies the Suitors’ Doom (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Melampodid seer; bird-omen and hall vision
- Rhesus and the Thracian Horses (*Iliad* 10)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Doloneia · Homeric — Rhesus slain in his sleep; white horses taken
- Amphinomus: Warning Spurned, Death by Telemachus (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / suitors / mnesterophonia · Homeric — the “good” suitor Athena still dooms
- Euphorbus Wounds Patroclus (*Iliad* 16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patroclus’s death sequence · Homeric — second blow after Apollo; prelude to Hector’s killing thrust
- Leodes the Suitor-Diviner Slain (*Odyssey* 22)
Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia · Homeric — sacrificial diviner among the suitors; futile plea
- 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
- Nestor Rescues the Wounded Machaon (*Iliad* 11)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 hinge · Homeric — Paris wounds Machaon; Nestor conveys him; Achilles sends Patroclus
- Aethra Recovered at Troy by Acamas and Demophon
Trojan — Sack / Theseid nostoi · Cyclic / Apollodorean / Plutarchan — Theseus’s mother freed from Helen’s service
- Philoetius the Loyal Cowherd (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / Ithacan household / mnesterophonia · Homeric — cattle-herd who stands with Odysseus against the suitors
- Melantho: The Disloyal Maid (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / Ithacan household / suitors · Homeric — Melantho insults the beggar Odysseus; sister of Melanthius
- Halitherses Prophesies in the Ithacan Assembly (*Odyssey* 2)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / Ithacan politics · Homeric — Halitherses reads the bird-omen; Eurymachus scorns him
- Hanging of the Disloyal Maidservants (*Odyssey* 22)
Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia / household purge · Homeric — Eurycleia counts twelve guilty maids; Telemachus hangs them
- Poseidon as Calchas Rallies the Ajaxes (*Iliad* 13)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 13 / divine aid to the Achaeans · Homeric — Poseidon’s disguised encouragement at the ships
- Odysseus’s Cretan Lies (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / false autobiographies / *pseudologia* · Homeric — Cretan persona told to Athena, Eumaeus, and Penelope
- 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
- 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
- Polydamas Advises Hector (*Iliad* 12 and 18)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Trojan counsel vs. Hector’s force · Homeric — bird-omen counsel at the ditch; night counsel after Achilles’ return
- Eidothea Aids Menelaus (*Odyssey* 4)
Trojan — Odyssey / Menelaus’s nostos / Egyptian sojourn · Homeric — nymph daughter of Proteus teaches the seal-skin ambush
- Othryoneus’s Betrothal Boast and Death
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Idomeneus’s aristeia · Homeric — Cabesus ally seeks Cassandra; Idomeneus kills him
- Adonis: Aphrodite and the Boar
Local and lesser — Cypriot / Levantine cult myth in Greek dress · Apollodorean (birth from Myrrha/Smyrna; Aphrodite; Persephone; boar death); Bion’s *Lament*
- Ceyx and Alcyone
Local and lesser — Trachinian / Aeolian metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Greek pair; Apollodorean brief notice of Ceyx
- 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
- Polyidus and Glaucus of Crete
Local and lesser — Cretan · Apollodorean (seer Polyidus; drowned boy; snake and herb)
- Melampus the Seer
Local and lesser — Argive / Amythaonid seers · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* tradition (serpents; cattle of Phylacus; Proetides)
- 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)
- 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)
- Glaucus of Anthedon: The Fisherman-God
Local and lesser — Boeotian / marine metamorphosis · Ovidian Roman narrative (+ Pausanian / Hellenistic notices of the Anthedonian fisherman-prophet)
- Dryope (Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Oechalian / dryad metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek name and lotus/tree aetiology
- Rhoeo and Anius: Delian Myths
Local and lesser — Delian / Apolline local myth · Apollodorean / Diodoran / cyclic notices (Rhoeo; Anius; Oenotropae)
- Icarius and Erigone: Dionysus’s Gift of Wine
Local and lesser — Attic Dionysiac aetiology · Apollodorean / Eratosthenic / Attic handbook (Icarius; first wine; Erigone; Maera; catasterism)
- Orpheus’s Head and Lyre Reach Lesbos
Local and lesser — Orphic aftermath / Lesbian cult aetiology · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Hellenistic (head floats singing; Lesbian oracle; lyre catasterized or dedicated)
- Tiresias: Snakes, Gender Change, Blindness, and Prophecy
Local and lesser — Theban seer / gender and sight · Apollodorean (double sex; Hera–Zeus quarrel; blindness; prophetic gift)
- Manto, Daughter of Tiresias
Local and lesser — Theban / prophetic lineage; colonial aetiology · Apollodorean / tragic / Pausanian
- Calchas and Mopsus: The Contest and Death of Calchas
Local and lesser — mantic rivalry / post-Trojan · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Melampodia* / Strabonian
- Mopsus the Seer (Claros and Cilicia)
Local and lesser — prophetic founders / colonial · Apollodorean / Strabonian / Argonautic glance
- Amphilochus: Founder Myths (Brief)
Local and lesser — Epigoni aftermath / colonial founders · Apollodorean / Strabonian / Pausanian
- The Aiora: Swing Festival and Expiation for Erigone
Local and lesser — Attic ritual aetiology · Attic / Eratosthenic / lexicographic (Aiora founded after hanging-plague)
- Aphrodite’s Lament for Adonis (Bion)
Local and lesser — Adonis / bucolic lament · Hellenistic bucolic — Bion’s *Lament for Adonis* (Greek)
- Gardens of Adonis (Athenian Rite)
Local and lesser — Adonis / Attic women’s ritual · Classical Athenian — Adonia; brief Greek rite (not Roman elegy)
- Trophonius: Oracle of Lebadeia
Local and lesser — Boeotian oracle / hero-cult · Pausanian — descent into the chasm of Trophonius
- Artemis at Brauron: Iphigenia and the Attic Cult
Local and lesser — Attic cult aetiology / Artemis Brauronia · Euripidean / Pausanian — Iphigenia brings the Tauric image to Brauron (or Halai)
- Codrus: The Last King of Athens Sacrifices Himself
Local and lesser — Attic kings / Pausanian–Lycurgan legend · Pausanian / Lycurgan Attic (Codrus; Dorian invasion oracle)
- Lycaon of Arcadia and Zeus Lycaeus
Local and lesser — Arcadian kings / Zeus Lykaios cult aetiology · Pausanian / Apollodorean — Lycaon’s crime; werewolf lore; Lycaean cult
- Battus and the Foundation of Cyrene (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — colonial foundation / Theran–Libyan · Herodotean — Delphic oracle; Theran colonists; Battus I founds Cyrene
- Aristomenes of Messenia (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Messenian resistance hero · Pausanian Messenian — Aristomenes’ exploits in the Messenian Wars
- Periander and Melissa (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Corinthian tyrant logos / necromantic inquiry · Herodotean — Periander’s crime against Melissa; consultation of the Thesprotian dead
- Birth of Iamus at Olympia (Pindar)
Local and lesser — Olympian seer-clan / Iamidai · Pindaric — Evadne bears Iamus; two dragons feed him; Apollo grants voice of prophecy
- Damia and Auxesia: Aeginetan Cult and Athenian Hostages (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Epidaurian–Aeginetan–Attic cult logos · Herodotean — olive-wood statues; Aeginetan theft; Athenian disaster
- The Carnea and Apollo Carneius (Sparta)
Local and lesser — Spartan / Dorian Apollo festival aetiology · Pausanian / classical — Carneius as local god fused with Apollo; Carnea festival
- Glaucus of Sparta and the Delphic Temptation (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Spartan logos / Delphic morality tale · Herodotean — deposit, perjury contemplated, lineage extinguished
- 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
- 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
- Croesus Tests the Oracles (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian logos / Delphic prestige · Herodotean — lamb-and-tortoise riddle; Delphi and Amphiaraus proven true
- 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
- Gordius and the Gordian Knot
Local and lesser — Phrygian foundation / Alexander omen · Arrianic / Plutarchan — peasant-king; wagon knot; Alexander’s cut or loosing