- Primordial Beginnings: Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- 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
- Imprisonment of the Titans and the Warders of Tartarus
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Typhoeus Against Zeus (Hesiodic)
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Typhon Against Zeus (Apollodorus)
Cosmogony / Theogony · Apollodorean (substantially different combat narrative from Hesiodic Typhoeus)
- Division of the Cosmos among Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades
Cosmogony / Theogony · Homeric / Apollodorean (lots among the three brothers)
- Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
- 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)
- The Gigantomachy: Full Battle (Apollodorus)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian defense of the cosmos · Apollodorean catalogue battle (full divine pairings; Heracles as mortal ally)
- Offspring of Echidna and Typhon (Hesiodic Monster Catalogue)
Cosmogony / Theogony — monster genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue (*Theogony* Typhonid brood)
- Atlas Condemned to Hold the Heavens
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan punishment · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (sky-burden as Zeus’s sentence after the Titan war)
- 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
- The Keres: Death-Spirits of Night (Hesiod and Homer)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / battlefield death · Hesiodic catalogue + Homeric battlefield Keres
- Hypnos and Thanatos: Sleep and Death, Children of Night
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Sleep and Death · Hesiodic genealogy (+ Homeric twin imagery)
- Briareus–Aegaeon Summoned by Thetis (*Iliad* 1)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hecatoncheires in Homeric narrative · Homeric — Thetis’s rescue of Zeus; Briareus called Aegaeon by men
- The Topography of Tartarus (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld geography / cosmic architecture · Hesiodic — Tartarus’s measures, gates, and residents beyond Titan imprisonment alone
- 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
- Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter
- Hermes as Psychopomp: Leading the Suitors’ Shades
Olympian gods · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24
- Demeter and Triptolemus: The Gift of Grain
Olympian gods / Eleusinian · Apollodorean / Pausanian Eleusinian (mission of Triptolemus); Homeric Hymn foundation noted as rite-only
- 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)
- Asclepius: Birth from Coronis; Death by Zeus; Apollo’s Revenge on the Cyclopes
Olympian gods / Asclepiad · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Coronis; crow; thunderbolt; Cyclopes; servitude to Admetus)
- Dioscuri: Castor’s Death and Shared Immortality
Olympian gods / Spartan Dioscuri · Homeric / Pindaric / Apollodorean (cattle raid; Idas and Lynceus; alternate days)
- Apollo as Admetus’s Herdsman (Alcestis Setup)
Olympian gods / Thessalian · Apollodorean / Euripidean prologue (servitude after Cyclopes; herds prosper; Fate-bargain)
- Hecate in Demeter’s Search (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Hecate · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (torch-bearing companion)
- Helios Tells Demeter about Persephone
Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Helios · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Helios as all-seeing revealer)
- Dione Comforts Wounded Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Dione · Homeric (*Iliad* 5) — maternal consolation on Olympus after Diomedes’ wound
- Iris Fetches the Water of Styx for Oaths (Hesiod)
Olympian gods — Iris / divine ritual · Hesiodic — Iris as bearer of Styx-water when gods swear
- Dionysus Retrieves Semele from Hades
Olympian gods — Dionysus / apotheosis of Semele · Apollodorean / Pausanian — descent and renaming as Thyone
- Persephone Eats the Pomegranate: The Return Bargain
Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone · Homeric Hymn to Demeter — pomegranate seed and compromise
- Demeter and Iasion: Birth of Plutos (Hesiod)
Olympian gods — Demeter / agricultural wealth · Hesiodic / Homeric — thrice-ploughed field; Plutos; Zeus’s bolt on Iasion
- The Aloadae: Otus and Ephialtes against the Gods
Olympian gods — early threats to Olympus / Poseidon’s line · Homeric / Apollodorean (Aloadae; binding of Ares; assault on heaven)
- Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Aeacus: Judges of the Dead
Olympian gods / underworld order — judicial afterlife · Homeric / Platonic / Apollodorean — three mortal kings as underworld judges
- Lampetie and Phaethusa: Keepers of Helios’s Cattle
Olympian gods — Helios / Thrinacian herds · Homeric — nymph daughters of Helios who tend the immortal cattle and sheep
- Minthe Trampled by Persephone
Olympian gods — Persephone / Hades / plant aetiology · Strabonian / Oppianic Greek + Ovid-labeled Roman — river-nymph rival; mint plant
- Polydectes’s Demand: Hermes and Athena Equip Perseus
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (wedding-gift trick; divine guides and gear)
- Visit to the Graeae and the Nymphs
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (shared eye and tooth; path to the nymphs)
- Beheading of Medusa: Birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Hesiodic enrichment (Medusa mortal; Pegasus and Chrysaor from the neck)
- 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)
- Third Labor: The Ceryneian (Cerynitian) Hind
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (golden-horned hind sacred to Artemis; year-long chase; confrontation with Artemis and Apollo)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Theseus and Pirithous: Abduction of Helen
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus and Pirithous seize youthful Helen; she is recovered by the Dioscuri)
- 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)
- Phineus and the Harpies; the Boreads; Advice for the Symplegades
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (blind seer; Harpies driven off; guidance for the Clashing Rocks)
- Death of Meleager: The Brand of the Fates (Althaea)
Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean / Bacchylidean (Moirae’s brand; Althaea burns it after the uncles’ deaths)
- 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)
- Tantalus: Crime and Punishment
Heroes — Tantalids / Pelops · Homeric underworld punishment + Apollodorean crimes (feast of Pelops; theft of nectar/ambrosia)
- Orion: Blinding, Death Variants, and the Stars
Heroes — Orion · Apollodorean / Homeric / astral (Oenopion; scorpion; Artemis; Eos)
- 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)
- Death of Theseus: Lycomedes on Scyros
Heroes — Theseus (end) · Apollodorean / Plutarchan biographical tradition
- Shade of Agamemnon Warns Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Atreid / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Agamemnon’s shade in the underworld consultation
- Shade of Achilles in the Underworld (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Achilles / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Achilles’ shade speaks with Odysseus
- Shade of Ajax Silent before Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Ajax Telamonian / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Ajax’s shade refuses speech in lingering wrath
- 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
- 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
- Amphiaraus at Oropos: Hero-Oracle of the Underworld
Heroes — Seven Against Thebes / aftermath cult · Pausanian / Herodotean — incubation oracle after the earth-swallowing
- Tityus: Assault on Leto and Eternal Punishment
Heroes / primordial giants — crime against Leto · Homeric / Apollodorean — Tityus in the underworld
- Ixion Bound to the Wheel
Heroes — Thessalian / underworld punishment · Pindaric / Apollodorean — wheel sentence after Nephele
- Heracles against Neleus and the Pylians
Heroes — Heracles / side campaigns; Nestor’s background · Apollodorean / Homeric recollection (Neleus; eleven sons; Nestor spared)
- Eurystheus Hides in the Bronze Jar
Heroes — Heracles / labors aftermath delivery · Apollodorean / pictorial classical tradition — Eurystheus cowers in a jar when Heracles brings live monsters
- Asclepius Resurrects Hippolytus
Heroes — Asclepiad / Hippolytus aftermath (beyond Euripides’ death) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cultic — Asclepius raises Hippolytus; Zeus’s bolt follows
- Dioscuri Rescue Helen from Aphidna
Heroes — Dioscuri / Theseus cycle aftermath · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Castor and Polydeuces recover Helen; Aethra captured
- Pelops’s Ivory Shoulder
Heroes — Pelopid origins / restoration after Tantalus’s feast · Apollodorean / Pindaric background — Demeter’s bite; ivory replacement
- Lichas and the Poisoned Robe
Heroes — Heracles / Trachiniae endgame · Sophoclean / Apollodorean — Lichas brings the gift; Heracles hurls him to death
- Rhadamanthys and Alcmene in Boeotia
Heroes — after Heracles / Cretan lawgiver in Boeotia · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Rhadamanthys weds Alcmene; settles at Ocaleae or Haliartus
- Diomedes’ Aristeia: Wounding of Aphrodite and Ares
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 5 (with close of 4 / opening of 6)
- Funeral of Patroclus and the Games
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 23
- Contest for Achilles’ Arms: Ajax, Odysseus, Madness, and Suicide
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Aethiopis* end (Proclus) + Attic tragic — Sophocles *Ajax*; Apollodorean
- 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)
- Laertes; End of the Blood-Feud (*Odyssey* 24)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24 (+ Apollodorean close)
- Deiphobus Marries Helen; Death in the Sack
Trojan — Priamid / sack · Epic Cycle (*Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis*) / Apollodorean / Vergilian enrichment (labeled where Roman)
- Ajax Telamonian: Tomb and Cult
Trojan — Ajax aftermath / hero cult · Homeric / cyclic / Pausanian / local Rhoetean
- Eurypylus of Mysia at Troy: Slain by Neoptolemus
Trojan — Little Iliad / Posthomeric endgame · Cyclic (*Little Iliad*) / Apollodorean / Posthomeric (Quintus); Pausanian for Machaon link
- Athena Tips Diomedes to Wound Ares (*Iliad* 5)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 5 · Homeric — Athena as charioteer and guide against Ares
- Zeus Forbids the Gods to Fight (*Iliad* 8)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 8 · Homeric — Zeus’s ban on divine intervention
- Zeus Lifts the Ban: The Gods May Fight (*Iliad* 20)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 20 · Homeric — revocation of the Book 8 ban; theomachy begins
- Cattle of Helios on Thrinacia (*Odyssey* 12)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Thrinacia sacrilege and shipwreck isolated from *Odyssey* 12
- Penelope’s Shroud: The Web Trick (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / Ithaca during Odysseus’s absence · Homeric — shroud for Laertes; ruse told and exposed
- Kerostasia: Zeus Weighs Hector’s Fate (*Iliad* 22)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric — golden scales decide Hector’s doom
- Suitors’ Shades and Amphimedon’s Tale (*Odyssey* 24)
Trojan — Odyssey / Book 24 / underworld aftermath · Homeric — Hermes leads the suitors; Amphimedon narrates to Agamemnon
- Eos and the Immortality of Memnon (*Aethiopis*)
Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* aftermath · Cyclic — Eos obtains immortality for Memnon from Zeus after Achilles kills him
- Death of Antilochus at Memnon’s Hands (*Aethiopis*)
Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* · Cyclic / Apollodorean — Memnon kills Antilochus; Achilles avenges him
- The Ghost of Patroclus Appears to Achilles (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / funeral of Patroclus · Homeric — shade demands burial; shared bones; vanishes like smoke
- Elpenor Falls from Circe’s Roof (*Odyssey* 10–11)
Trojan — Odyssey / Aeaea / Nekyia prelude · Homeric — drunken fall; unburied shade; burial plea and fulfillment
- 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
- The Danaids: Murder of the Sons of Aegyptus
Local and lesser — Argive · Apollodorean (+ Aeschylean *Suppliants* frame; underworld punishment tradition)
- Aeacus, Aegina, and the Myrmidons (Peleus’s People)
Local and lesser — Aeginetan / Phthian · Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled ant metamorphosis; Hesiodic and Pindaric Aeacus notices
- The Three Judges of the Dead (Minos, Rhadamanthys, Aeacus)
Local and lesser — underworld eschatology · Platonic / Apollodorean / Homeric (Minos) overview
- Sisyphus: Cheating Death and the Rolling Stone
Local and lesser — Corinthian / underworld punishment · Homeric punishment + Apollodorean / Pherecydian crimes (Thanatos bound; Persephone tricked)
- Salmoneus: Imitating Zeus
Local and lesser — Thessalian / Elean / underworld sinners · Apollodorean / Vergilian echo labeled; Hesiodic *Catalogue* notices
- Tityos: Assault on Leto and the Vultures
Local and lesser — underworld punishment / Letoids · Homeric (*Odyssey* 11) / Apollodorean (birth; assault; death by Apollo and Artemis)
- 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
- Empusa and the Lamiae
Local and lesser — daimonic / Hecate’s train; folk-bogey in classical comedy and philosophy · Aristophanic / Philostratean / Diodoran (Empusa; Lamia as child-devouring bogey; Hecate connection)
- Daphnis (Theocritus)
Local and lesser — Sicilian bucolic / herdsman hero · Theocritean (*Idyll* 1); Stesichorean and Sicilian precedent notices
- Cyparissus (Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — metamorphosis / Apolline favorite · Roman transmission (Ovid) of the Cean / Cypriot youth changed into the cypress
- Isles of the Blessed and Elysian Plain
Local and lesser — eschatology / afterlife geography · Hesiodic *Works and Days* + Pindaric / Homeric Elysium notices
- Lyra: The Lyre of Orpheus (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Orpheus · Catasterismic handbook — Orpheus’s lyre placed among the stars
- The Cabeiri of Samothrace
Local and lesser — Samothracian Mysteries / protective daimones · Herodotus / classical notices — Great Gods of Samothrace; initiation