- 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 Five Ages of Man (Hesiod, *Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — ages of humankind · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* (five races; Bronze and Heroic ages distinct)
- 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”)
- Prometheus Creates Humankind (Later Tradition)
Cosmogony / Theogony — anthropogony (Promethean craft) · Later classical / handbook tradition (distinct from Orphic soot and from Hesiodic ages)
- Hecate’s Parentage: Asteria and Perses (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan line / Hecate · Hesiodic — birth from Perses and Asteria
- 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 and Hyacinthus
Olympian gods / Spartan-Amyclaean · Apollodorean / Pausanian Amyclaean (discus; flower; cult)
- Poseidon and Tyro: The Enipeus Deception; Birth of Pelias and Neleus
Olympian gods / Aeolid heroic prelude · Homeric (*Odyssey* 11) / Apollodorean
- Hera Suckling Heracles: Aetiology of the Milky Way
Olympian gods / Heracles infancy · Late classical notices (Diodorus; Pausanias; scholia; Hyginus) — aetiology of the galaxy (*galaxias*)
- Apollo’s Hyperborean Sojourn
Olympian gods / Apollo — Hyperborean myth · Pindaric / Herodotus / Delphic–Delian classical notices
- Hermes’ First Sacrifice (Homeric Hymn to Hermes)
Olympian gods — Hermes · Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4) — Alpheius sacrifice isolated
- Apollo and Hermes: Friendship and Pact (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Apollo / Hermes · Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4) — reconciliation and gift-exchange isolated
- Binding of Prometheus (Aeschylean)
Olympian gods — Zeus’s order / Prometheus · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Prometheus Bound* (distinct from Hesiodic binding)
- Demeter Nurses Demophon: Celeus and Metaneira (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Demeter / Eleusinian prelude · Homeric Hymn to Demeter — Demophon episode (distinct from Triptolemus grain-mission)
- Hermes Steals Apollo’s Cattle (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Hermes / Apollo · Homeric Hymn to Hermes — cattle-theft isolated from birth and lyre-invention
- Hestia: Virgin Privilege and the Hearth
Olympian gods — Hestia · Homeric Hymns — eternal virginity; first and last libations; hearth privilege
- Homeric Hymns to the Dioscuri (17 and 33)
Olympian gods — Dioscuri / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns XVII and XXXIII — Tyndarids as horse-tamers and saviors of sailors
- Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (1) — Fragment
Olympian gods — Dionysus / fragmentary Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn I — disputed birthplaces; Zeus and the god’s glory
- Apollo and the Cretan Sailors: Founding Delphi’s Priesthood
Olympian gods — Apollo / Delphic foundation · Homeric Hymn (Pythian) — Cretans from Knossos led to Pytho as first priests
- Acrisius, Danaë, and the Bronze Chamber: Conception of Perseus
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (Argive oracle; Zeus as golden rain)
- 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)
- Seventh Labor: The Cretan Bull
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (bull of Crete brought alive; released; later the Marathonian bull)
- Tenth Labor: The Cattle of Geryon (Helios’s Cup, Orthrus, Erytheia)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Erytheia/Gadira; triple-bodied Geryon; Orthrus and Eurytion; Helios’s golden cup; homeward cattle-drive with Eryx and Hera’s gadfly)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Cycnus Son of Ares: Combat on the Way to the Hesperides (or at Itonus)
Heroes — Heracles · Hesiodic *Shield* / Apollodorean (Cycnus waylays pilgrims; Heracles kills him; Ares engages and is wounded or parted by Zeus)
- The Bull of Marathon
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Marathonian bull = Cretan bull released by Heracles; Theseus captures and sacrifices it)
- 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)
- 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)
- Cyzicus and the Doliones: Friendly King Killed by Mistake
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (hospitality by night; mistaken battle; funeral games)
- Murder of Apsyrtus: Ambush in the Adriatic (Apollonius)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (adult Apsyrtus pursues; lured to Artemis’s shrine; Jason kills him abroad)
- Circe’s Purification; Libya and Triton’s Gift (Return Voyage)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian return (Circe cleanses kin-blood; later Libyan shoals and Triton)
- Calydonian Boar Hunt: Setup — Oeneus and Artemis’s Wrath
Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean (neglected first-fruits; Artemis sends the huge boar)
- Daedalus and Icarus: The Flight from Crete
Heroes — Daedalus · Apollodorean (wings of feathers and wax; Icarus falls; Daedalus to Sicily)
- Cadmus and the Founding of Thebes (Dragon’s Teeth)
Heroes — Cadmus / Theban cycle gateway · Apollodorean (Europa search; Delphic cow; Castalian dragon; Spartoi; Harmonia)
- Europa’s Abduction: Zeus and the Bull
Heroes — Europa / Cretan kings (preface to Cadmus) · Apollodorean / Moschus (Zeus as bull; Crete; Minos, Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon)
- Antigone, the Burial of Polynices, and Creon’s Edict
Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (+ Apollodorean aftermath)
- Ion and Creusa: Athenian Foundation (Euripides)
Heroes — Attic foundation / Erechtheid line · Attic tragic — Euripides *Ion* (+ Apollodorean genealogy of Xuthus and Ion)
- Orion: Birth Variants (Apollodorus / Boeotian)
Heroes — Orion · Apollodorean catalogue of birth variants (+ Homeric parentage notices)
- 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)
- 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)
- Phrixus and Helle: The Golden Ram to Colchis
Heroes — Aeolid / Golden Fleece origin (pre-Argonautica) · Apollodorean / Apollonian background (ram flight; Hellespont; Aeetes)
- 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)
- 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)
- Heracles Frees Prometheus
Heroes — Heracles / Titan aftermath · Apollodorean (eagle slain; bonds loosed; Chiron’s immortality traded) — liberation focus
- Heracles’ War on Augeas and the Molionidae
Heroes — Heracles (post-labor Elian war) · Apollodorean (+ Pindaric Olympic aftermath glance)
- Heracles Founds the Olympic Games (Pindar)
Heroes — Heracles / Olympia foundation · Pindaric (*Olympian* 10) / Apollodorean enrichment
- Erechtheus, Eumolpus, and the Sacrifice of the Daughters
Heroes — Attic kings / Eleusinian war · Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Erechtheus*) / Lycurgan oratory
- 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
- Eurydice of Thebes: Suicide after Haemon (Sophocles)
Heroes — Theban / Antigone aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone*
- Orestes’ Wanderings and Alternate Purifications (beyond *Eumenides*)
Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Euripidean notices (multi-site cleansing)
- Chrysothemis (Sophocles’ *Electra*)
Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia (Electra’s sister) · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Electra* (foil sister)
- 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 Tiresias Advises Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Odyssey nekyia / Theban seer in Hades · Homeric — Tiresias at the blood-trench
- Philoctetes’ Isolation on Lemnos (Sophocles)
Heroes — Philoctetes / Trojan muster aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Philoctetes* (isolation and wound focus)
- Amphiaraus at Oropos: Hero-Oracle of the Underworld
Heroes — Seven Against Thebes / aftermath cult · Pausanian / Herodotean — incubation oracle after the earth-swallowing
- Neoptolemus Kills Priam at the Altar of Zeus Herkeios
Heroes — Neoptolemus / Sack of Troy · Cyclic *Iliou Persis* / Apollodorean — Priam slain at the household altar
- Theseus’s Bones Brought from Scyros to Athens
Heroes — Theseus / Attic hero-cult translation · Plutarchan / Pausanian — Cimon recovers the bones; Theseion
- Molorchus of Cleonae and the Nemean Lion
Heroes — Heracles / Nemean labor hospitality aetiology · Callimachean (+ Apollodorean labor frame) — poor host Molorchus; postponed sacrifice
- Macaria’s Sacrifice (*Heraclidae*)
Heroes — Heraclidae / Attic tragic asylum · Attic tragic — Euripides *Heraclidae*; voluntary maiden sacrifice for victory
- 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
- Europa’s Sons in Crete: Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon
Heroes — Cretan royal foundations / Europa cycle aftermath · Apollodorean / Homeric — three sons of Zeus and Europa; Cretan kingship; Sarpedon’s dual identity
- Lichas and the Poisoned Robe
Heroes — Heracles / Trachiniae endgame · Sophoclean / Apollodorean — Lichas brings the gift; Heracles hurls him to death
- Sidero Slain by Pelias at Hera’s Altar
Heroes — Aeolid / Tyro cycle / Pelias’s impiety · Apollodorean — cruel stepmother; twins’ vengeance; slaughter at Hera’s altar
- Sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis (Deer Substitute)
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* / Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Iphigenia at Aulis*); Artemis substitutes a deer
- Second Gathering; Philoctetes Abandoned on Lemnos
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Sophoclean wound-aetiology)
- 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)
- 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*
- 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)
- Iphigenia among the Taurians (Euripides)
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Iphigenia in Tauris*
- 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*)
- 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)
- Death of Neoptolemus at Delphi
Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Aeacid end · Pindaric / Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Andromache* messenger); Delphic cult
- 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)
- Epeius Builds the Wooden Horse
Trojan — Sack prelude / wooden horse · Epic Cycle / Homeric reminiscence / Apollodorean (Epeius as builder; Athena’s aid)
- 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)
- Astyanax: Death Variants (Neoptolemus vs. Odysseus)
Trojan — Sack / Hector’s heir · Cyclic / Apollodorean / tragic — killer variants isolated
- Iris Summons the Winds for Patroclus’s Pyre (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / funeral of Patroclus / divine messengers · Homeric (*Iliad* 23)
- 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)
- Funeral Games for Patroclus: Foot-Race (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — foot-race (Odysseus wins by Athena’s aid)
- Funeral Games for Patroclus: Archery (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — archery (Meriones over Teucer)
- Telemachus at Sparta: Menelaus and Helen (*Odyssey* 4)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — Spartan visit isolated from the Telemachy overview
- Priam Clasps Achilles’ Knees (*Iliad* 24)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric — tent recognition, shared weeping, and return of the body
- Ghost of Achilles Demands Polyxena
Trojan — Cyclic *Nostoi* / *Iliou Persis* aftermath / Euripidean · Cyclic / Euripidean — Achilles’ shade requires Polyxena’s sacrifice
- Menelaus Wrestles Proteus in Egypt (*Odyssey* 4)
Trojan — Odyssey / nostoi / Telemachy · Homeric — Proteus of Pharos; Egyptian detention
- 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
- Poseidon and Apollo Destroy the Achaean Wall (*Iliad* 12)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / wall aftermath aetiology · Homeric — after Troy’s fall the gods wash away the wall (prolepsis in Book 12)
- Odysseus Returns Chryseis to Chryses (*Iliad* 1)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 1 · Homeric — voyage to Chryse; hecatomb; plague ends; Chryses’ prayer
- Telemachus at Pylos with Nestor (*Odyssey* 3)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — first stop of Telemachus’s voyage; Nestor’s nostos-lore
- 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
- 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
- Polites Slain before Priam
Trojan — Sack of Troy / Priam’s death prelude · Vergilian Roman narrative (+ Little Iliadic / Pausanian Greek notices) — Neoptolemus kills Polites in Priam’s sight
- The Memnonides: Birds from Memnon’s Pyre
Trojan — Memnon aftermath / bird metamorphosis · Ovid-labeled Roman — cinders become fighting birds; annual memorial
- Asclepius at Epidaurus: Healing Cult Myth
Local and lesser — Epidaurian cult · Pausanian Epidaurian (local birth; incubation; sacred dogs and snakes); inscriptional iamata
- Pygmalion
Local and lesser — Cypriot · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek notices of Pygmalion as Cypriot king/sculptor vary
- Pasiphaë and the Bull
Local and lesser — Cretan / Minos cycle · Apollodorean (Poseidon’s bull; Daedalus’s cow; birth of the Minotaur)
- Salmoneus: Imitating Zeus
Local and lesser — Thessalian / Elean / underworld sinners · Apollodorean / Vergilian echo labeled; Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices
- Busiris and Heracles in Egypt
Local and lesser — Heraclean / Egyptian encounter (Labors itinerary) · Apollodorean (+ Pherecydian / Isocratean rhetorical use; vase tradition)
- Polycrates’ Ring (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Samian tyrant legend (Herodotean) · Herodotean classical legend (historical frame; proverbial fortune)
- Cleobis and Biton (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Argive piety legend (Herodotean) · Herodotean classical legend (Solon’s exemplum of a happy life)
- Iphis and Ianthe (Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Cretan metamorphosis / marriage · **Roman** transmission (Ovid) of a Cretan sex-change and marriage tale
- Aristaeus, the Bees, and Eurydice (Vergil-Labeled)
Local and lesser — pastoral / bee aetiology; Orphic hinge · Roman primary narrative (Vergil, *Georgics* 4) of a Greek hero (Aristaeus); Greek notices of Aristaeus as pastoral culture-hero noted
- Leucippus of Phaestus (Gender Change)
Local and lesser — Cretan / Leto cult aetiology · Greek (Antoninus Liberalis from Nicander); Cretan local
- Hygieia: Birth and Cult (Brief)
Local and lesser — Asclepiad / healing gods · Classical cult / Apollodorean Asclepiad family / Pausanian
- Black Demeter of Phigalia (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Arcadian Demeter aetiology / cult image · Pausanian — cave of Phigalia; horse-headed Black Demeter; wrath and famine
- Aries: The Golden Ram of Phrixus (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Argonautic prelude · Catasterismic handbook — Nephele’s ram as Aries
- 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
- Pan and Pheidippides before Marathon (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Attic cult aetiology / Herodotean logos · Herodotean — Pan appears to the runner; cult of Pan established under the Acropolis
- Periander and Melissa (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Corinthian tyrant logos / necromantic inquiry · Herodotean — Periander’s crime against Melissa; consultation of the Thesprotian dead
- Epimenides Purifies Athens
Local and lesser — Cretan holy man / Attic purification aetiology · Classical Greek notices — Epimenides summoned after Cylonian pollution
- 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
- Artemis Orthia at Sparta (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Spartan cult / Orthia aetiology · Pausanian / classical — wooden image from Astarte-land; madness; scourging altar
- 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
- Olympia’s Older Foundations: Idaean Dactyls and Pelops (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Eleian / Olympia cult aetiology · Pausanian — pre-Heraclean foundations of the Olympic games
- Sosipolis at Olympia (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Eleian child-hero / Olympia cult · Pausanian — miraculous child becomes serpent; averts Arcadian invasion
- Cronus’s Hill at Olympia and the Local Zeus-Birth (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Eleian / Olympia sacred topography · Pausanian — Cronius hill; local claim that Rhea bore Zeus at Olympia
- Aristeas of Proconnesus (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Herodotean wonder-tale / Hyperborean poetry · Herodotean — death in the fuller’s shop; reappearance; *Arimaspea*
- The Heliadae of Rhodes
Local and lesser — Rhodian primordial kings / Helios cult · Pindaric / Diodorean — seven sons of Helios and Rhode; fireless sacrifice; murder of Tenages
- Anacharsis the Scythian
Local and lesser — Scythian sage / cult transgression / Greek wisdom legend · Herodotean — travels; Mother of the Gods at Cyzicus; death by arrow