- 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)
- Division of the Cosmos among Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades
Cosmogony / Theogony · Homeric / Apollodorean (lots among the three brothers)
- Orphic Cosmogony (Brief — Distinct Tradition Note)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic tradition (not Hesiodic main line) · Orphic / late classical–Hellenistic notices (labeled distinct from Hesiod)
- Hecate’s Privileges (Hesiodic)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian settlement / goddess of crossroads · Hesiodic (*Theogony* hymn to Hecate)
- Nereus and the Nereids (Hesiodic / Apollodorean Catalogue)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Pontus’s line / sea nymphs · Hesiodic catalogue (+ Apollodorean Nereid list)
- Styx and the Gods’ Oath (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — divine law / river of oath · Hesiodic — Styx’s water as the immortals’ binding oath
- Birth of the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — children of Gaia and Uranus · Hesiodic — three Cyclopes and three Hundred-Handers before the Titans’ castration-plot
- Ophion and Eurynome: Alternative Primordial Rule
Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic / early alternative pair · Orphic / Apollonian (Orpheus’s song) — Ophion and Eurynome before Cronus and Rhea
- Aphrodite as Daughter of Zeus and Dione
Olympian gods · Homeric (Olympian parentage; distinct from Hesiodic foam-birth)
- Ares and Aphrodite Caught by Hephaestus
Olympian gods · Homeric — Demodocus’s song in *Odyssey* 8
- Apollo, the Python, and the Founding of Delphi
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn (Pythian) / Apollodorean
- Ino–Leucothea and Melicertes–Palaemon
Olympian gods — Dionysiac family / sea-cult · Apollodorean / Homeric (Ino as Leucothea in *Odyssey*); tragic Athamas madness
- Hephaestus and Charis (Iliad Marriage)
Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Charites · Homeric (*Iliad*) / Hesiodic (Aglaia)
- Demeter and Iasion: Birth of Plutos (Hesiod)
Olympian gods — Demeter / agricultural wealth · Hesiodic / Homeric — thrice-ploughed field; Plutos; Zeus’s bolt on Iasion
- Birth of Chiron: Cronus and Philyra
Olympian gods / Titan periphery — Chiron’s origin · Apollodorean / Hellenistic handbook — Cronus as horse; Philyra; centaur sage
- Second Labor: The Lernaean Hydra
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (many-headed Hydra; Iolaus’s firebrands; Hera’s crab; arrows poisoned in the gall)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Building of the Argo and Gathering of the Argonauts
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (Athena’s design; Argus the builder; catalogue of heroes)
- 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)
- Orion: Blinding, Death Variants, and the Stars
Heroes — Orion · Apollodorean / Homeric / astral (Oenopion; scorpion; Artemis; Eos)
- Atreus and Thyestes: The Golden Lamb and the Adultery
Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean succession · Apollodorean / tragic (golden lamb; Aerope’s adultery; exile)
- 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)
- Cecrops: Earth-Born Founder of Athens
Heroes — Attic kings / foundation · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic (autochthon; first king; contest judge)
- Tiphys Dies; Ancaeus Takes the Helm
Heroes — Argonautica / voyage logistics · Apollonian — death of the first helmsman; Ancaeus succeeds
- Achilles’ Early Exploits in the Troad (Cypria)
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean summary level (raids before the *Iliad*)
- Quarrel at the Ships: Chryses, Plague, and the Taking of Briseis
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* Book 1 (Achilles’ wrath begins)
- Zeus’s Promise to Thetis and the False Dream
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 1–2 (divine plot; Agamemnon’s dream; army tested)
- The Embassy to Achilles
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 9 (with Book 8 as immediate cause)
- Reconciliation; Achilles Returns to Battle
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 19
- Hermione and Orestes: Marriage after Neoptolemus
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath; Spartan–Mycenaean succession · Euripidean (*Andromache*; *Orestes*) / Apollodorean / Odyssean glance
- Deiphobus Marries Helen; Death in the Sack
Trojan — Priamid / sack · Epic Cycle (*Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis*) / Apollodorean / Vergilian enrichment (labeled where Roman)
- Division of the Trojan Women: Brief Allotments
Trojan — Sack / spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean / cyclic
- Asteropaeus and Achilles (Iliad 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Paeonian allies / river fight · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
- Achilles and the River Scamander (Xanthus) — *Iliad* 21
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ aristeia / river combat · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
- Iris Summons the Winds for Patroclus’s Pyre (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / funeral of Patroclus / divine messengers · Homeric (*Iliad* 23)
- Argus the Dog Recognizes Odysseus (*Odyssey* 17)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Argus’s recognition and death
- Funeral Games for Patroclus: Foot-Race (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — foot-race (Odysseus wins by Athena’s aid)
- 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
- Ino-Leucothea Gives Odysseus the Veil (*Odyssey* 5)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings / Scheria approach · Homeric — sea-goddess’s veil as charm against drowning
- Menelaus Wrestles Proteus in Egypt (*Odyssey* 4)
Trojan — Odyssey / nostoi / Telemachy · Homeric — Proteus of Pharos; Egyptian detention
- Rhesus and the Thracian Horses (*Iliad* 10)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Doloneia · Homeric — Rhesus slain in his sleep; white horses taken
- Helenus and Andromache in Epirus: The Molossian Settlement
Trojan — Nostoi aftermath / Epirote foundation · Apollodorean / Pausanian — after Neoptolemus’s death Helenus holds Andromache; Molossian line
- Agamemnon Tests the Army (*Diapeira*, *Iliad* 2)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 2 assembly · Homeric — false dream aftermath; Agamemnon’s test; flight to the ships; Odysseus restores order
- Lynceus and Hypermnestra: Survival and the Argive Line
Local and lesser — Argive succession · Apollodorean / tragic (*Danaid* trilogy aftermath); Pausanian cult notices
- Eos and Tithonus
Local and lesser — Dawn / Trojan royal house · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (+ Homeric *Iliad* / *Odyssey* notices; Apollodorean genealogy)
- Glaucus of Anthedon: The Fisherman-God
Local and lesser — Boeotian / marine metamorphosis · Ovidian Roman narrative (+ Pausanian / Hellenistic notices of the Anthedonian fisherman-prophet)
- Alpheus and Arethusa
Local and lesser — Arcadian / Sicilian spring aetiology · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek river–spring myth; Pindaric and Pausanian Greek notices
- Cleobis and Biton (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Argive piety legend (Herodotean) · Herodotean classical legend (Solon’s exemplum of a happy life)
- The Pleiades: Daughters of Atlas (and Orion’s Pursuit)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook (Eratosthenes / Hyginus)
- Eos and Orion (Love of Dawn)
Local and lesser — Dawn’s mortal loves / Orion cycle · Homeric / Hesiodic notices (+ Apollodorean / astral frame)
- Helios and Leucothoe (Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Helios / metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Helios’s love for Leucothoe (and Clytie’s betrayal)
- Orion’s Death and the Scorpion (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orion · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook — scorpion sent by Earth or Artemis
- Scorpius: The Scorpion among the Stars (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orion cycle · Catasterismic handbook — scorpion that killed Orion as Scorpius
- Battus and the Foundation of Cyrene (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — colonial foundation / Theran–Libyan · Herodotean — Delphic oracle; Theran colonists; Battus I founds Cyrene
- 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