- Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Birth of Aphrodite from the Foam
Cosmogony / Theogony (cosmogonic birth) · Hesiodic (foam-born; distinct from Homeric “daughter of Zeus and Dione”)
- 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
- 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)
- Pandora and the Jar
Cosmogony / Theogony (origins of human ills) · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* (named Pandora; jar/pithos of evils; Hope remaining)
- Birth of the Erinyes, Giants, and Meliae from the Blood of Uranus
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (aftermath of the castration; extracted as its own short entry for the blood-born host)
- 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)
- Hecate’s Privileges (Hesiodic)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian settlement / goddess of crossroads · Hesiodic (*Theogony* hymn to Hecate)
- Children of Nyx (Hesiodic Catalogue)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night and her brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Night’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”)
- Prometheus Creates Humankind (Later Tradition)
Cosmogony / Theogony — anthropogony (Promethean craft) · Later classical / handbook tradition (distinct from Orphic soot and from Hesiodic ages)
- Oceanus, Tethys, and the Oceanids (Hesiodic Overview)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / watery catalogue · Hesiodic catalogue
- Offspring of Echidna and Typhon (Hesiodic Monster Catalogue)
Cosmogony / Theogony — monster genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue (*Theogony* Typhonid brood)
- Iris the Messenger (Iliad)
Cosmogony / Theogony — divine agents / Olympian household · Homeric (*Iliad*) — Iris as go-between; Hesiodic genealogy noted
- Birth of the Muses (Mnemosyne and Zeus)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian generation / arts · Hesiodic
- Asteria Becomes Delos (Ortygia)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan generation / Delian aetiology · Apollodorean / Callimachean / mythographic (quail / star → island)
- 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
- Children of Iapetus: Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, Epimetheus
Cosmogony / Theogony — Titan genealogy · Hesiodic catalogue of Iapetus and Clymene
- 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
- Children of Eris (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — personified ills · Hesiodic — Eris’s brood in the *Theogony* (with *Works and Days* double-Eris background)
- Hephaestus Born of Hera Alone (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian generation · Hesiodic — Hera’s parthenogenic birth of Hephaestus in anger at Zeus
- The Keres: Death-Spirits of Night (Hesiod and Homer)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / battlefield death · Hesiodic catalogue + Homeric battlefield Keres
- Momus: Blame, Child of Night (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified blame · Hesiodic — Momos among Nyx’s children
- The Oneiroi: Dreams, Children of Night (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Dreams · Hesiodic — the tribe of Dreams (Oneiroi) born of Nyx
- Rhea, Amalthea, and the Curetes in Crete
Cosmogony / Theogony — birth and hiding of Zeus · Apollodorean Cretan enrichment (+ Hesiodic Crete notice)
- Briareus–Aegaeon Summoned by Thetis (*Iliad* 1)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hecatoncheires in Homeric narrative · Homeric — Thetis’s rescue of Zeus; Briareus called Aegaeon by men
- Two Kinds of Eris (*Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic ethics / personified Strife · Hesiodic — *Works and Days* distinction of good and bad Eris
- The Hawk and the Nightingale (*Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic didactic fable / justice · Hesiodic — animal fable (*ainos*) addressed to kings
- Dike and the Just City (*Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic ethics / Justice · Hesiodic — Dike among mortals; just vs unjust cities
- The Topography of Tartarus (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld geography / cosmic architecture · Hesiodic — Tartarus’s measures, gates, and residents beyond Titan imprisonment alone
- Seafaring and the Pleiades (*Works and Days*)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Hesiodic star-lore / seafaring · Hesiodic — Pleiades, Sirius, and the season for ships
- Ophion and Eurynome: Alternative Primordial Rule
Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic / early alternative pair · Orphic / Apollonian (Orpheus’s song) — Ophion and Eurynome before Cronus and Rhea
- Ate and the Litai (Prayers)
Cosmogony / Theogony — moral personifications / Homeric theology · Homeric — Phoenix’s allegory of Ate and the Litai inside *Iliad* 9
- 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 and Early Exploits of Hermes: Cattle Theft, Lyre, and Reconciliation with Apollo
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Hermes
- Birth of Dionysus: Semele, the Thunderbolt, and Zeus’s Thigh
Olympian gods · Apollodorean / tragic (common classical Semele–thigh birth; Euripidean background)
- 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
- Athena and Poseidon Contest for Athens
Olympian gods · Apollodorean / Attic (Pausanian landmarks)
- Artemis and Actaeon
Olympian gods · Apollodorean “general opinion” (bathing / stag metamorphosis), with Callimachus as earliest surviving poetic parallel; Acusilaus–Stesichorus Semele-rival strand noted
- Apollo, the Python, and the Founding of Delphi
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn (Pythian) / Apollodorean
- Apollo and Marsyas
Olympian gods · Apollodorean / Pausanian (musical contest; flaying); Hellenistic and pictorial enrichment
- Dionysus and the Tyrrhenian Pirates
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn VII (to Dionysus)
- Hera and Ixion: The Cloud and the Birth of Centaurus
Olympian gods / Thessalian crime and punishment · Pindaric / Apollodorean (Nephele; Centaurus; wheel)
- Athena and Arachne
Olympian gods / Lydian metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) — fullest contest narrative; Greek notices of Athena as weaving patron thinner
- Phaethon and the Sun Chariot
Olympian gods / Helios · Euripidean fragments + Roman transmission (Ovid) of the sun-chariot fall
- Anchises and Aphrodite (Homeric Hymn V)
Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Trojan ancestry · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (5) — full classical narrative
- 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)
- Poseidon and Tyro: The Enipeus Deception; Birth of Pelias and Neleus
Olympian gods / Aeolid heroic prelude · Homeric (*Odyssey* 11) / Apollodorean
- Athena and Pallas: Childhood Friend and the Aegis
Olympian gods / Athena · Apollodorean / Pausanian (Libyan or Tritonian childhood; accidental killing; aegis from skin)
- Hera and Poseidon: The Contest for Argos
Olympian gods / Argive foundation · Pausanian Argive (divine contest; river-gods as judges)
- Apollo’s Hyperborean Sojourn
Olympian gods / Apollo — Hyperborean myth · Pindaric / Herodotus / Delphic–Delian classical notices
- Athena Invents the Aulos and Discards It
Olympian gods — Athena / musical aetiology · Classical aetiology (Athena invents and rejects the pipes; Marsyas finds them)
- Ares and Halirrhothius: Trial on the Areopagus
Olympian gods — Ares / Attic aetiology · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic (first murder trial; Areopagus named)
- Poseidon and Halirrhothius (Father of the Victim)
Olympian gods — Poseidon / Attic · Apollodorean / Atthidographic (Poseidon as avenging father)
- 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
- Dione Comforts Wounded Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Dione · Homeric (*Iliad* 5) — maternal consolation on Olympus after Diomedes’ wound
- Styx Allies Zeus: Nike, Kratos, Bia, and Zelos
Olympian gods — divine household / Titanomachy rewards · Hesiodic — Styx’s primacy and her children’s seats beside Zeus
- 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
- 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
- Zeus and Nemesis: The Egg of Helen (*Cypria*)
Olympian gods / Trojan prelude — parentage of Helen · Cyclic — *Cypria* (Nemesis pursued; egg; Leda as foster-mother)
- Poseidon and Helios Contest for Corinth
Olympian gods / Corinthian aetiology · Pausanian — Briareos arbitrates; Isthmus to Poseidon, Acrocorinth height to Helios
- Demeter and Iasion: Birth of Plutos (Hesiod)
Olympian gods — Demeter / agricultural wealth · Hesiodic / Homeric — thrice-ploughed field; Plutos; Zeus’s bolt on Iasion
- Phobos and Deimos: Children of Ares
Olympian gods — Ares / personified war-terrors · Hesiodic / Homeric — Fear and Terror as Ares’s sons and attendants
- 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)
- Britomartis–Dictynna: The Cretan Chase and the Nets
Olympian gods / Cretan local — companion of Artemis · Callimachean / Pausanian Cretan — Britomartis flees Minos; nets; Dictynna
- 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
- Hebe: Cupbearer of the Gods
Olympian gods — Hebe / divine household service · Homeric / Hesiodic — Hebe pours nectar; later wife of Heracles
- Homeric Hymn to Selene (32)
Olympian gods — Selene / lunar hymn · Homeric Hymn XXXII — praise of the Moon; birth of Pandia
- Homeric Hymn to Ares (8)
Olympian gods — Ares / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn VIII — praise and ethical petition to Ares
- Homeric Hymns to Athena (11 and 28)
Olympian gods — Athena / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns XI and XXVIII — city-protector praise; birth from Zeus’s head
- Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (1) — Fragment
Olympian gods — Dionysus / fragmentary Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn I — disputed birthplaces; Zeus and the god’s glory
- Homeric Hymn to Zeus (23)
Olympian gods — Zeus / short Homeric Hymn · Homeric Hymn XXIII — brief praise of Zeus as counsel and Themis’s consort
- 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
- Birth of Chiron: Cronus and Philyra
Olympian gods / Titan periphery — Chiron’s origin · Apollodorean / Hellenistic handbook — Cronus as horse; Philyra; centaur sage
- The Aloadae Bind Ares in a Bronze Jar
Olympian gods — Ares / Aloadae humiliation · Homeric digression (*Iliad* 5) — Otus and Ephialtes imprison Ares thirteen months
- 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
- 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
- Visit to the Graeae and the Nymphs
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (shared eye and tooth; path to the nymphs)
- Return to Seriphos: Petrification of Polydectes; Dictys Made King
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean (altar refuge; palace petrification; Athena’s shield)
- 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)
- First Labor: The Nemean Lion
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (invulnerable lion; strangling; Molorchus at Cleonae; skin as armor)
- Third Labor: The Ceryneian (Cerynitian) Hind
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (golden-horned hind sacred to Artemis; year-long chase; confrontation with Artemis and Apollo)
- Fourth Labor: The Erymanthian Boar (and Pholus among the Centaurs)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (live capture of the boar; Pholus’s hospitality; centaur battle; Chiron’s incurable wound)
- Fifth Labor: The Augean Stables
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (cleaning by river diversion; wage-quarrel with Augeas; Phyleus as witness; Eurystheus again refuses to count the labor)
- Sixth Labor: The Stymphalian Birds
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (lake birds; Athena’s bronze krotala; flushed and shot)
- Eighth Labor: The Mares of Diomedes
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (man-eating Thracian mares; Abderus killed; Diomedes fed to his own horses; founding of Abdera)
- 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)
- Ninth Labor: The Amazons (Melanippe’s Ransom — No Murder of Hippolyte)
Heroes — Heracles · Diodorean (pitched Amazon war; Melanippe freed for her girdle as ransom; Antiope given to Theseus; Hippolyte not the slain prize-bearer)
- 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)
- 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 (Heracles Slays the Dragon Himself)
Heroes — Heracles · Alternate classical (Heracles enters the garden, kills the guardian serpent, and plucks the apples — vs. Atlas as intermediary)
- After the Labors: Iphitus’s Murder and Sale to Omphale
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (labors complete; Eurytus and Iole; murder of Iphitus; Delphic sentence of servitude; Hermes sells Heracles to Omphale of Lydia)
- Omphale in Lydia: Service and Deeds under the Queen
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (three-year Lydian servitude; Cercopes; Syleus; other Asian deeds; release)
- Sack of Troy: Laomedon Killed and Hesione Given to Telamon
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (post-Omphale expedition; Telamon and Oicles; walls scaled; Laomedon and sons slain; Priam spared; Hesione awarded to Telamon)
- Achelous and Deianeira: Contest for the Bride
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (river-god suitor; shape-shifting combat; broken horn; marriage to Deianeira)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Road Labor: Periphetes the Club-Bearer
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (first Isthmus labor; Periphetes slain with his own club)
- Road Labor: Sinis Pityocamptes the Pine-Bender
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Isthmus pine-bender; killed by his own method; Perigune)
- Road Labor: Procrustes (Damastes) and the Bed
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (last Isthmus/Attic bandit; stretched or cut to fit the bed; killed likewise)
- 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)
- Tribute to Minos and the Voyage to Crete
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Androgeus’s death; Athenian tribute of youths and maidens; Theseus volunteers)
- 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)
- Theseus and the Amazons: Antiope (or Hippolyte)
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus takes Amazon bride Antiope or Hippolyte; Amazon invasion of Attica)
- 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)
- Amycus and the Bebryces: Boxing Match of Polydeuces
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (Amycus’s challenge; Polydeuces wins; Bebrycian rout)
- 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)
- Arrival at Colchis and Aeetes’s Tasks
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (audience with Aeetes; fire-breathing bulls; dragon-teeth warriors)
- 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)
- Murder of Apsyrtus: Ambush in the Adriatic (Apollonius)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (adult Apsyrtus pursues; lured to Artemis’s shrine; Jason kills him abroad)
- Murder of Apsyrtus: Child Slain and Dismembered (Apollodorus)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (young Apsyrtus taken from Colchis; killed and scattered to delay Aeetes)
- Circe’s Purification; Libya and Triton’s Gift (Return Voyage)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian return (Circe cleanses kin-blood; later Libyan shoals and Triton)
- Talos on Crete
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (bronze guardian; ankle vein; Medea’s defeat of Talos)
- 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)
- Calydonian Boar Hunt: Setup — Oeneus and Artemis’s Wrath
Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean (neglected first-fruits; Artemis sends the huge boar)
- Meleager and the Calydonian Hunt (Atalanta’s Role)
Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Apollodorean (pan-Hellenic muster; Atalanta first wound; Meleager awards the hide; quarrel with uncles)
- Meleager in Homer: Phoenix’s Digression (*Iliad* 9)
Heroes — Calydonian / Meleager · Homeric — Phoenix to Achilles (anger, withdrawal, city’s peril; no Fate-brand)
- Atalanta: Birth, Exposure, and the Bear
Heroes — Atalanta · Apollodorean Arcadian (Iasus; exposure; bear; hunters; vow of virginity)
- Bellerophon, Pegasus, Further Tasks, and the Fall from Heaven
Heroes — Bellerophon · Pindaric / Apollodorean (+ Homeric end note): Pegasus tamed; heavenward attempt; wandering end
- Daedalus and Icarus: The Flight from Crete
Heroes — Daedalus · Apollodorean (wings of feathers and wax; Icarus falls; Daedalus to Sicily)
- 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)
- Blinding of Oedipus and Exile from Thebes
Theban · Sophoclean (*OT* end) / Apollodorean (exile timing variants)
- 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)
- Amphion and Zethus: The Walls of Thebes
Theban · Apollodorean / Homeric (*Odyssey* Antiope) / Pausanian
- 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)
- Orion: Blinding, Death Variants, and the Stars
Heroes — Orion · Apollodorean / Homeric / astral (Oenopion; scorpion; Artemis; Eos)
- Telephus: Auge, Birth, and the Mysian Kingship
Heroes — Heraclean offspring / Mysian; Trojan prelude · Apollodorean (+ Euripidean *Auge* / *Telephus* notices; Hesiodic *Catalogue*)
- Atreus and Thyestes: The Golden Lamb and the Adultery
Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean succession · Apollodorean / tragic (golden lamb; Aerope’s adultery; exile)
- 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)
- Nycteus and Lycus: Theban Usurpation Setup
Heroes — Theban political prelude (pre-Amphionid) · Apollodorean / Pausanian genealogical politics
- Labdacus and Laius: Lineage Bridge to the Labdacids
Heroes — Theban / Labdacid genealogy · Apollodorean / Pausanian (thin reigns; exile of Laius; restoration after Amphionids)
- Myrtilus: Betrayal, Murder, and the Curse on the Pelopids
Heroes — Tantalids / Pelopid curse · Apollodorean / tragic (Myrtilus as hinge of the house-curse)
- Peleus, Acastus, and Astydameia
Heroes — Aeacid / Thessalian (Peleus before Thetis) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (false accusation; abandonment among centaurs)
- 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
- Achilles on Scyros: Odysseus’s Discovery
Heroes — Aeacid / Trojan muster prelude · Apollodorean / cyclic (*Cypria*) / tragic and handbook tradition (+ Statius Roman labeled for stage business)
- Chiron: Wound, Relinquished Immortality, and Teacher of Heroes
Heroes — Centaur sage / Heracles aftermath / heroic education · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Hydra-arrow wound; immortality ceded; school of heroes)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Theseus and the Synoecism of Attica
Heroes — Theseus / Attic political myth · Plutarchan / Thucydidean political myth (+ Apollodorean kingship glance)
- Cecrops: Earth-Born Founder of Athens
Heroes — Attic kings / foundation · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic (autochthon; first king; contest judge)
- Erechtheus, Eumolpus, and the Sacrifice of the Daughters
Heroes — Attic kings / Eleusinian war · Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Erechtheus*) / Lycurgan oratory
- Cranaus: Attica in the Time of Deucalion’s Flood
Heroes — Attic kings / flood generation · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic king-list
- Hellen: Eponym of the Hellenes
Heroes — Aeolid / Hellenic eponym · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* tradition
- Hellenic Tribes: Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus
Heroes — Aeolid / tribal eponyms · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* / ethnographic myth
- Death of Theseus: Lycomedes on Scyros
Heroes — Theseus (end) · Apollodorean / Plutarchan biographical tradition
- Amphictyon, Son of Deucalion
Heroes — Deucalionid / Attic king-list bridge · Apollodorean / Pausanian
- Adrastus of Argos: Kingship, Arion, and Survival
Heroes — Theban / Argive (Seven Against Thebes) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / tragic
- Capaneus: Blasphemy and the Thunderbolt
Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
- Tydeus and Melanippus: Brains, Athena, and Denied Immortality
Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Apollodorean / cyclic / scholiastic
- Parthenopaeus: Death at Thebes
Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
- Menoeceus: Voluntary Sacrifice to Save Thebes
Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Euripidean (*Phoenician Women*) / Apollodorean notice
- Haemon’s Suicide (Sophocles, Antigone)
Heroes — Theban / Antigone aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone*
- Hippomedon: Death at Thebes
Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
- 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
- Diomedes after Thebes: Epigonus and Argive King
Heroes — Theban / Epigoni / Argive · Apollodorean / Homeric — Epigonus who becomes Trojan-war Argive leader
- Death of Aegialeus in the Epigoni War
Heroes — Theban / Epigoni · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cyclic
- Adrastus Dies of Grief for Aegialeus
Heroes — Theban / Epigoni aftermath / Argive · Pausanian / Apollodorean notices
- Orestes’ Purification at Delphi
Heroes — Atreid / Oresteia aftermath (also Trojan nostoi) · Aeschylean / Apollodorean handbook (Delphic cleansing)
- Shade of Agamemnon Warns Odysseus (*Odyssey* 11)
Heroes — Atreid / Odyssey nekyia · Homeric — Agamemnon’s shade in the underworld consultation
- 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
- 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
- Philoctetes’ Isolation on Lemnos (Sophocles)
Heroes — Philoctetes / Trojan muster aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Philoctetes* (isolation and wound focus)
- Antigone Entombed Alive (Sophocles)
Heroes — Theban / Antigone · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (cave tomb and suicide)
- Heracles and Eryx: Wrestling for the Bull
Heroes — Heracles / side episode on the Geryon cattle-drive · Apollodorean — Eryx slain in wrestling after a runaway bull reaches Sicily
- Amphitryon’s War on the Teleboans (Taphians)
Heroes — Amphitryon / prelude to the birth of Heracles · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Shield* — vengeance-war for Alcmene’s brothers
- Heraclidae at Athens: Death of Eurystheus
Heroes — Heraclidae / Attic asylum · Apollodorean / Euripidean (*Heraclidae*) — Attic refuge and Eurystheus’s end
- Hyllus and Echemus: Single Combat at Tegea
Heroes — Heraclidae / failed first return · Herodotean / Apollodorean / Pausanian — Hyllus’s death stalls the return
- Perseus, Phineus, and the Wedding Battle
Heroes — Perseus / Andromeda aftermath · Apollodorean (+ Ovid-labeled Roman battle spectacle)
- Tityus: Assault on Leto and Eternal Punishment
Heroes / primordial giants — crime against Leto · Homeric / Apollodorean — Tityus in the underworld
- Death of Jason: The Timber of the Argo
Heroes — Jason / Argonautic aftermath · Euripidean prophecy + mythographic fulfillment (Argo’s beam)
- Heracles and Hippocoön: The Spartan Vengeance War
Heroes — Heracles / side campaigns after the labors · Apollodorean (Hippocoön; Oeonus; Tyndareus restored)
- Heracles against Neleus and the Pylians
Heroes — Heracles / side campaigns; Nestor’s background · Apollodorean / Homeric recollection (Neleus; eleven sons; Nestor spared)
- Heracles, Theiodamas, and the Dryopians
Heroes — Heracles / side campaigns; Hylas’s parentage · Apollodorean — Theiodamas slain; Dryopian war; Hylas taken
- 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
- Copreus: Herald of Eurystheus
Heroes — Heracles / labor administration · Homeric / Apollodorean — Copreus as intermediary after Eurystheus’s fright
- Bias, Pero, and the Cattle of Phylacus
Heroes — Melampodid / Pylian bride-price · Apollodorean / Odyssey genealogical — Melampus wins Pero for Bias
- Peleus and Telamon Kill Phocus
Heroes — Aeacid house / exile prelude to Phthia and Salamis · Apollodorean / Pausanian — fraternal murder; purification and exile
- Theseus and the Suppliants: Recovery of the Seven’s Bodies
Heroes — Theseus / Theban aftermath / Attic tragic charter · Attic tragic — Euripides *Suppliants* (Adrastus and the mothers at Eleusis)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Tiphys Dies; Ancaeus Takes the Helm
Heroes — Argonautica / voyage logistics · Apollonian — death of the first helmsman; Ancaeus succeeds
- Butes and the Sirens
Heroes — Argonautica / return voyage · Apollonian — Butes leaps toward the Sirens; Aphrodite saves him to Lilybaeum
- 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
- Electryon’s Death and Amphitryon’s Exile
Heroes — Amphitryon / Heracles prelude / Mycenaean house · Apollodorean — accidental killing of Electryon; exile to Thebes; betrothal to Alcmene
- Acarnan and Amphoterus: The Naming of Acarnania
Heroes — Alcmaeon aftermath / Acarnanian eponym · Apollodorean / Thucydidean digression — sons of Alcmaeon and Callirhoe avenge and name the land
- Death of Androgeus and the Origin of the Athenian Tribute
Heroes — Theseus prelude / Minos–Athens quarrel · Apollodorean / Pausanian — Androgeus slain in Attica; Minos wars; tribute of youths
- Canace and Macareus
Heroes — Aeolid house / tragic incest · Euripidean *Aeolus* (fragments / hypothesis) + Ovid-labeled Roman narrative — sibling union; Aeolus’s wrath; deaths
- Iolaus Rejuvenated by Hebe
Heroes — Heraclidae / Euripidean miracle · Euripidean *Heraclidae* — aged Iolaus prays; Hebe and Zeus restore his youth for battle
- Abderus and the Founding of Abdera
Heroes — Heracles / eighth labor aftermath / Thracian foundation · Apollodorean — Abderus killed by the mares; Heracles founds Abdera over his tomb
- Pterelaus and Comaetho: The Golden Hair
Heroes — Amphitryon / Teleboan war / Taphian kingship · Apollodorean — Poseidon’s immortalizing hair; daughter’s betrayal
- Gelanor Yields Argos to Danaus
Heroes / Argive — Danaid arrival and transfer of kingship · Apollodorean / Pausanian — last pre-Danaid king; omen of the wolf
- Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: Eris and the Apple of Discord
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Pindaric wedding background)
- Judgment of Paris: Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
- Oath of Tyndareus and the Gathering of the Greeks
Trojan · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* strand (+ *Cypria* muster)
- 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)
- Second Gathering; Philoctetes Abandoned on Lemnos
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Sophoclean wound-aetiology)
- Landing at Troy: Protesilaus and Cycnus
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric Protesilaus notice)
- Embassy for Helen: Early Diplomacy Fails
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
- Achilles’ Early Exploits in the Troad (Cypria)
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean summary level (raids before the *Iliad*)
- Troilus Slain by Achilles
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ tragic and archaic pictorial tradition)
- 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)
- Paris and Menelaus: Duel and the Broken Truce
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 3–4
- Diomedes’ Aristeia: Wounding of Aphrodite and Ares
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 5 (with close of 4 / opening of 6)
- 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)
- Trojans at the Ships; Patroclus Pleads for Achilles’ Armor
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 11–16 (compressed arc to Achilles’ concession)
- Patroclus in Achilles’ Armor; Death at Hector’s Hands
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 16
- Fight over Patroclus’s Body; Thetis and the New Armor
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 17–18
- Reconciliation; Achilles Returns to Battle
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 19
- Achilles’ Aristeia and the Death of Hector
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 20–22
- Funeral of Patroclus and the Games
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 23
- 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)
- Memnon Son of Dawn: Achilles Kills Memnon
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean
- Death of Achilles: Paris and Apollo
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Aethiopis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric foreshadowing)
- Contest for Achilles’ Arms: Ajax, Odysseus, Madness, and Suicide
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Aethiopis* end (Proclus) + Attic tragic — Sophocles *Ajax*; Apollodorean
- 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)
- Helen Recovered by Menelaus
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Little Iliad* / *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades*; Homeric *Odyssey* 4)
- Departure Disasters Begin: Athena’s Wrath and Locrian Ajax
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* / *Nostoi* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades* prologue)
- Nestor’s Safe Return to Pylos
Trojan — Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 3 / Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* (Proclus)
- Aeneas’s Escape from Troy (Greek Notices; Vergil Labeled)
Trojan — Sack aftermath / western foundation legend · Homeric / cyclic / Apollodorean Greek notices + **Roman** Vergilian expansion labeled
- Aeolus and the Laestrygonians (*Odyssey* 10)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 10.1–199 (+ 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)
- Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis; Cattle of Helios (*Odyssey* 12)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 12 (+ Apollodorean)
- Return to Ithaca: Disguise and Eumaeus (*Odyssey* 13–16)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 13–16 (compressed)
- Recognition by Penelope: The Marriage Bed (*Odyssey* 23)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 23
- Laertes; End of the Blood-Feud (*Odyssey* 24)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 24 (+ Apollodorean close)
- Orestes Avenges Agamemnon (*Choephoroi* / Libation Bearers)
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Choephoroi* (+ Homeric / Apollodorean revenge notice)
- Phaeacians: Nausicaa, Alcinous, and the Escort Home (*Odyssey* 6–8)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 6–8
- 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)
- Iphigenia among the Taurians (Euripides)
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Iphigenia in Tauris*
- Trojan Women (Euripides)
Trojan — Sack aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Troades* (*Trojan Women*)
- Telegony: Telegonus Kills Odysseus (Epic Cycle End)
Trojan — Epic Cycle close / post-*Odyssey* · Epic Cycle — *Telegony* (Proclus summary; Eugammon of Cyrene attrib.)
- Death of Palamedes at Troy
Trojan — Cypria / early war · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ tragic and Dictyan elaborations labeled where late)
- Achilles and Helen Meet (Cypria)
Trojan — Cypria interlude · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus)
- Euripides *Cyclops* (Satyr Play): Odysseus and Polyphemus
Trojan — Odyssey side-tradition / satyr drama · Attic satyr play — Euripides *Cyclops* (vs. Homeric *Odyssey* 9)
- Nostoi: Diomedes in Aetolia and Italy
Trojan cycle — Returns (*Nostoi*) · Epic Cycle / Apollodorean / local Italian Greek notices (Daunia; Islands of Diomedes)
- Teucer’s Exile from Salamis and the Founding of Cyprian Salamis
Trojan — Nostoi / Aeacid aftermath · Tragic / Apollodorean / Pausanian (Telamon’s rejection; Cyprus foundation)
- Hermione and Orestes: Marriage after Neoptolemus
Trojan — Nostoi / Oresteia aftermath; Spartan–Mycenaean succession · Euripidean (*Andromache*; *Orestes*) / Apollodorean / Odyssean glance
- 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)
- Nauplius’s False Beacons: The Wreck at Caphereus (Nostoi)
Trojan — Nostoi / Euboean disaster · Epic Cycle — *Nostoi* / Apollodorean (+ tragic notices)
- Nauplius’s Revenge: Justice Denied and the Corruption of the Achaean Wives
Trojan — Nostoi prelude / aftermath of Palamedes · Apollodorean / tragic handbook (Nauplius at Troy; domestic revenge)
- 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)
- Antenor Spared at the Sack of Troy
Trojan — Sack / guest-friendship and survival · Epic Cycle / Apollodorean / Homeric background (Antenor as peace-counselor; spared for hospitality)
- 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)
- 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
- Helen and Paris: First Night under Aphrodite
Trojan — abduction / Aphrodite’s gift · Homeric (*Iliad* 3 bed scene as paradigm) + Cypria/Apollodorean elopement context
- Oenone and Paris: Abandonment, Refused Healing, Death
Trojan — Paris’s first love / death appendix · Apollodorean / Hellenistic–tragic (Oenone as healer-nymph)
- Hecuba Allotted to Odysseus
Trojan — Sack / division of spoils · Euripidean / Apollodorean
- 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*
- Death of Sarpedon (Iliad)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian allies · Homeric (*Iliad* 16)
- Glaucus and Diomedes: Guest-Friendship and Armor Exchange (*Iliad* 6)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian–Argive link · Homeric (*Iliad* 6)
- Hypnos and Thanatos Carry Sarpedon’s Body (Iliad)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian allies / divine escort · Homeric (*Iliad* 16) — Sleep and Death as funeral conveyers
- Lycaon and Achilles (Iliad 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ river aristeia · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
- 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 and the River Scamander (Xanthus) — *Iliad* 21
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ aristeia / river combat · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
- Hephaestus Burns the Plain: Fire against Scamander (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / divine combat / Achilles’ rescue · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
- Thetis and the Nereids Lament with Achilles (*Iliad* 18)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patroclus aftermath / Nereid mourning · Homeric (*Iliad* 18)
- 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)
- Priam’s Night Journey to Achilles (*Iliad* 24)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 24) — crossing of the plain by night
- Hermes Escorts Priam into Achilles’ Camp (*Iliad* 24)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 24) — entry through sentries and gates; departure before dawn
- Andromache Learns Hector Is Dead (*Iliad* 22)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric (*Iliad* 22 end) — recognition 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
- Iris Summons Helen to the Wall (*Iliad* 3)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — Iris (as Laodice) fetches Helen for the teichoscopia
- Aphrodite Rescues Paris from Menelaus (*Iliad* 3)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 duel · Homeric — Aphrodite’s mist-rescue of Paris
- Aphrodite Forces Helen to Paris’s Chamber (*Iliad* 3)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — Aphrodite compels Helen after the duel
- Athena Tips Diomedes to Wound Ares (*Iliad* 5)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 5 · Homeric — Athena as charioteer and guide against Ares
- Hera and Athena Arm for War: The Chariot of Hera (*Iliad* 5)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 5 · Homeric — goddesses arm and descend against Ares
- Zeus Forbids the Gods to Fight (*Iliad* 8)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 8 · Homeric — Zeus’s ban on divine intervention
- Hera and Athena Blocked by Zeus (*Iliad* 8)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 8 · Homeric — armed descent aborted by Zeus’s threat
- Poseidon Rallies the Greeks (*Iliad* 13)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 13 · Homeric — Poseidon’s covert aid against Zeus’s will
- Zeus Lifts the Ban: The Gods May Fight (*Iliad* 20)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 20 · Homeric — revocation of the Book 8 ban; theomachy begins
- Athena Wounds Ares in the Theomachy (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Athena vs. Ares after the river-fight
- Poseidon Challenges Apollo: Theomachy over Troy’s Walls (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Poseidon vs. Apollo (verbal challenge; Apollo declines)
- Hera Boxes Artemis’s Ears (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Hera vs. Artemis after Apollo’s refusal
- Hermes and Leto Refuse Combat (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Hermes declines to fight Leto; theomachy winds down
- Raid on the Cicones at Ismarus (*Odyssey* 9)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings begin · Homeric — first post-Troy disaster in Odysseus’s apologue
- Funeral Games for Patroclus: The Chariot Race (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — chariot race as chief contest
- Funeral Games for Patroclus: Boxing (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — boxing contest (Epeius vs. Euryalus)
- Funeral Games for Patroclus: Wrestling (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — wrestling draw (Ajax Telamonian and Odysseus)
- Funeral Games for Patroclus: Archery (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — archery (Meriones over Teucer)
- The Sirens (*Odyssey* 12)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Sirens episode isolated from *Odyssey* 12
- Scylla and Charybdis (*Odyssey* 12)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — strait passage isolated from *Odyssey* 12
- Penelope’s Bow Contest (*Odyssey* 21)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — bow contest isolated from the slaughter in Book 22
- Irus the Beggar: Boxing in the Palace (*Odyssey* 18)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Odysseus (disguised) vs. Irus
- Aeolus and the Bag of Winds (*Odyssey* 10)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Aeolia episode isolated from the Laestrygonians
- The Laestrygonians at Telepylus (*Odyssey* 10)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — Telepylus massacre isolated from Aeolus
- Circe, Hermes, and the Herb Moly (*Odyssey* 10)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings · Homeric — moly antidote and restoration isolated from the full Circe stay
- Dolon Captured and Slain (*Iliad* 10)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Doloneia · Homeric — Dolon’s capture, confession, and death isolated from Rhesus
- Priam Clasps Achilles’ Knees (*Iliad* 24)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / ransom of Hector · Homeric — tent recognition, shared weeping, and return of the body
- Penelope’s Bed Test: Recognition of Odysseus (*Odyssey* 23)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — olive-bed token isolated from the slaughter and Laertes
- Funeral Games for Patroclus: Armed Combat (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — Ajax Telamonian vs. Diomedes in full armor
- 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
- 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
- Phoenix’s Speech in the Embassy (*Iliad* 9)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Phoenix’s Meleager paradeigma within Book 9
- Pandarus Breaks the Truce (*Iliad* 4)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 4 · Homeric — Athena induces Pandarus’s treacherous arrow
- Briseis Returned: Her Lament for Patroclus (*Iliad* 19)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / reconciliation · Homeric — restitution of Briseis; her goos over Patroclus
- Laertes in the Garden: Recognition of Odysseus (*Odyssey* 24)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — father–son recognition by orchard tokens
- Kerostasia: Zeus Weighs Hector’s Fate (*Iliad* 22)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric — golden scales decide Hector’s doom
- The Phaeacian Games (*Odyssey* 8)
Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacians · Homeric — athletic contests before Odysseus’s apologue
- The Shield of Achilles: Homeric Ekphrasis (*Iliad* 18)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 18 · Homeric — Hephaestus’s cosmic and civic shield
- 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
- Agamemnon’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 11)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 · Homeric — Agamemnon’s morning rampage until wounded
- Leodes the Suitor-Diviner Slain (*Odyssey* 22)
Trojan — Odyssey / mnesterophonia · Homeric — sacrificial diviner among the suitors; futile plea
- Teucer Shoots from Behind Ajax’s Shield (*Iliad*)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Teucer’s archery · Homeric — bastard son of Telamon; archer paired with Ajax’s tower-shield
- The Achaeans Build the Wall before the Ships (*Iliad* 7)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 7 aftermath · Homeric — night after Ajax–Hector duel; wall and ditch built without hecatombs
- Teichomachy: Fighting at the Achaean Wall (*Iliad* 12)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 12 · Homeric — Trojans assault the wall; Sarpedon and Hector breach
- 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)
- Aethra Recovered at Troy by Acamas and Demophon
Trojan — Sack / Theseid nostoi · Cyclic / Apollodorean / Plutarchan — Theseus’s mother freed from Helen’s service
- Automedon and Achilles’ Immortal Horses (*Iliad* 17)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / fight for Patroclus’s body · Homeric — Automedon’s aristeia with Xanthus and Balios after Patroclus falls
- Telemachus at Pylos with Nestor (*Odyssey* 3)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy · Homeric — first stop of Telemachus’s voyage; Nestor’s nostos-lore
- Athena as Mentor (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / divine guidance of Telemachus and Odysseus · Homeric — Athena’s recurring disguise as Odysseus’s Ithacan friend Mentor
- The Suitors Ambush Telemachus (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / suitors’ plot · Homeric — Antinous’s ship lies in wait at Asteris; Athena saves the return
- Helen Drugs the Wine with Nepenthe (*Odyssey* 4)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / Sparta · Homeric — Helen’s Egyptian drug that ends grief in the mixing-bowl
- Halitherses Prophesies in the Ithacan Assembly (*Odyssey* 2)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / Ithacan politics · Homeric — Halitherses reads the bird-omen; Eurymachus scorns him
- Hector Rebukes Paris (*Iliad* 3 and 6)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Paris and Hector · Homeric — shame-speeches that drive Paris back to battle
- Glaucus Rebukes Hector over Sarpedon’s Arms (*Iliad* 17)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / fight for Patroclus’s body · Homeric — Lycian ally shames Hector for abandoning Sarpedon’s gear
- Ajax Defends the Ships (*Iliad* 15–16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / teichomachy aftermath / ships in peril · Homeric — Telamonian Ajax as last bulwark before Patroclus enters
- Death of Antilochus at Memnon’s Hands (*Aethiopis*)
Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* · Cyclic / Apollodorean — Memnon kills Antilochus; Achilles avenges him
- Ajax Carries Achilles’ Body from the Fight (*Aethiopis*)
Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* / death of Achilles aftermath · Cyclic — Ajax bears the corpse while Odysseus covers the retreat
- Odysseus Enters Troy in Disguise; Helen Recognizes Him (*Little Iliad*)
Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Little Iliad* · Cyclic / Apollodorean / Euripidean reminiscence — spy mission before the horse
- 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
- Hector’s Prayer for Astyanax (*Iliad* 6)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Hector–Andromache farewell · Homeric — baby fright at the helmet; prayer to Zeus
- Demodocus Sings the Wooden Horse (*Odyssey* 8)
Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacian court / Trojan War in song · Homeric — bard’s lay of the horse; Odysseus weeps
- Nestor’s Reminiscence of the Pylian Wars (*Iliad*)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Nestor digressions / pre-Trojan saga · Homeric — Nestor’s youth against Ereuthalion, the Eleians, and the Arcadians
- Achilles Drags Hector’s Body (*Iliad* 22–24)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / aftermath of Hector’s death · Homeric — piercing of the ankles; dragging behind the chariot; daily outrage at the tomb
- 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
- Phoenix’s Meleager Paradeigma (*Iliad* 9)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Meleager’s wrath as warning paradeigma inside Phoenix’s speech
- Diomedes Wounds Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Diomedes’ aristeia · Homeric — Athena’s leave; spear to Aphrodite’s wrist; Aeneas rescued
- Patroclus Borrows Achilles’ Armor (*Iliad* 16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia prelude · Homeric — Nestor’s plan; Achilles’ limits; Patroclus arms in the Myrmidon panoply
- Rhesus Slain in the Dolonia (*Iliad* 10)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Night raid · Homeric — Odysseus and Diomedes kill the Thracian king and take his horses
- Patroclus’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Patroclus turns the Trojans; kills Sarpedon; presses to the wall
- 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
- 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
- Othryoneus’s Betrothal Boast and Death
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Idomeneus’s aristeia · Homeric — Cabesus ally seeks Cassandra; Idomeneus kills him
- Epeigeus Slain by Hector
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Myrmidon exile of royal blood; Hector kills him over Sarpedon’s body
- The Memnonides: Birds from Memnon’s Pyre
Trojan — Memnon aftermath / bird metamorphosis · Ovid-labeled Roman — cinders become fighting birds; annual memorial
- Stentor of the Bronze Voice
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / divine disguise on the battlefield · Homeric — Hera (or Athena) takes Stentor’s form; voice of fifty men
- Cinyras and the Clay Ships
Trojan — Cypria / Cypriot king’s false contribution · Epic Cycle / handbook — Cinyras promises ships to Agamemnon; sends clay models
- Procne, Philomela, and Tereus
Local and lesser — Attic / Thracian metamorphosis · Apollodorean (Tereus; tongue; Itys; bird metamorphoses); tragic (*Tereus* of Sophocles, lost)
- Erysichthon: Demeter’s Punishment
Local and lesser — Thessalian / Demeter cult · Callimachean (*Hymn* 6 to Demeter); Ovidian enrichment labeled Roman
- Attis and Cybele (Classical Greek Notices)
Local and lesser — Phrygian cult in Greek reception · Classical Greek notices of a Phrygian myth; fuller narrative often Hellenistic/Roman—labeled where not Archaic Greek
- Scylla and Nisus: The Purple Lock
Local and lesser — Megarian / Cretan war · Apollodorean / Pausanian (+ Ciris tradition; Ovid labeled Roman for fullest metamorphosis)
- Baucis and Philemon
Local and lesser — Phrygian hospitality · Roman transmission (Ovid) of a Phrygian theoxeny; no full classical Greek verse narrative survives
- Pygmalion
Local and lesser — Cypriot · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek notices of Pygmalion as Cypriot king/sculptor vary
- Byblis
Local and lesser — Milesian / Carian · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek mythographers know Byblis as lover of her twin Caunus
- Melampus the Seer
Local and lesser — Argive / Amythaonid seers · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* tradition (serpents; cattle of Phylacus; Proetides)
- Belus, Aegyptus, and Danaus: The Setup
Local and lesser — Argive / Io’s descendants · Apollodorean genealogical setup (before the Danaid murders)
- The Danaids: Murder of the Sons of Aegyptus
Local and lesser — Argive · Apollodorean (+ Aeschylean *Suppliants* frame; underworld punishment tradition)
- Peleus and Thetis: Courtship and Wrestling
Local and lesser — Thessalian / Achillean prelude (before Trojan wedding) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (shape-shifting Nereid wrestled on the shore)
- Aeacus, Aegina, and the Myrmidons (Peleus’s People)
Local and lesser — Aeginetan / Phthian · Apollodorean / Ovid-labeled ant metamorphosis; Hesiodic and Pindaric Aeacus notices
- Eos and Tithonus
Local and lesser — Dawn / Trojan royal house · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (+ Homeric *Iliad* / *Odyssey* notices; Apollodorean genealogy)
- Death of Minos in Sicily (Cocalus)
Local and lesser — Cretan / Sicilian · Apollodorean (pursuit of Daedalus; Cocalus’s daughters; scalding bath)
- 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
- 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
- Caeneus: Gender Change and Invulnerable Lapith
Local and lesser — Lapith / Centauromachy · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* / Ovid-labeled (Caenis; Poseidon; pine trees)
- Busiris and Heracles in Egypt
Local and lesser — Heraclean / Egyptian encounter (Labors itinerary) · Apollodorean (+ Pherecydian / Isocratean rhetorical use; vase tradition)
- Birth of Teucer: Hesione and Telamon
Local and lesser — Salaminian / Trojan prelude (Aeacid line) · Apollodorean (Hesione awarded to Telamon; Teucer as bastard half-brother of Ajax)
- Dryope (Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Oechalian / dryad metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek name and lotus/tree aetiology
- Thamyris Challenges the Muses
Local and lesser — Thracian / poetic hybris · Homeric (*Iliad* 2) / Apollodorean / Pausanian
- Cinyras and Myrrha
Local and lesser — Cypriot kingship / Adonis prelude · Apollodorean / Pindaric notices of Cinyras; Myrrha crime as household disaster
- Polyphemus and Galatea (Theocritus, *Idyll* 11)
Local and lesser — Sicilian / Cyclops love (pre-Odyssean temper) · Theocritean Greek bucolic (Cyclops as rustic lover; no Acis)
- Arion of Methymna and the Dolphin (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lesbian / Corinthian musical legend · Herodotean classical legend (Arion of Methymna)
- 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)
- Apollo vs Pan: Musical Contest (Midas Judge)
Local and lesser — Phrygian / musical contest · Roman transmission (Ovid) of the Tmolus contest — separate from the thin ass-ears summary in 003 and from Apollo–Marsyas (02/016)
- Cyparissus (Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — metamorphosis / Apolline favorite · Roman transmission (Ovid) of the Cean / Cypriot youth changed into the cypress
- Icarius and Erigone: Dionysus’s Gift of Wine
Local and lesser — Attic Dionysiac aetiology · Apollodorean / Eratosthenic / Attic handbook (Icarius; first wine; Erigone; Maera; catasterism)
- 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
- 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
- Machaon and Podalirius at Troy
Local and lesser — Asclepiads / Trojan War physicians · Homeric / cyclic / Apollodorean
- The Hyades
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs / Dionysiac nurses · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook
- Helios and Leucothoe (Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Helios / metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Helios’s love for Leucothoe (and Clytie’s betrayal)
- Cycnus of Liguria Mourns Phaethon (Swan; Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Phaethon aftermath / metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Ligurian Cycnus’s swan change — distinct from Poseidon’s Cycnus and from Ares’s Cycnus
- Aphrodite’s Lament for Adonis (Bion)
Local and lesser — Adonis / bucolic lament · Hellenistic bucolic — Bion’s *Lament for Adonis* (Greek)
- Croesus and Solon: Who Is the Happiest Man? (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian / Herodotus legends · Herodotean — Solon’s visit and Croesus’s later recognition
- Phoroneus of Argos: First Man and First City
Local and lesser — Argive foundation / culture-hero · Pausanian / Apollodorean / Acusilaan Argive
- Atys and Adrastus: Death of Croesus’s Son (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian / Herodotus legends · Herodotean — dream, boar-hunt, accidental spear-kill
- Boötes: Icarius among the Stars
Local and lesser — catasterism / Attic Dionysiac aftermath · Classical astral — Icarius as Boötes (with Maera as dog-star)
- Aquila: The Eagle of Ganymede (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Zeus’s eagle · Catasterismic handbook — eagle that bore Ganymede (or Zeus’s bird) placed among the stars
- Cancer: The Crab of the Lernaean Hydra (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Heracles’s Second Labor · Catasterismic handbook — crab sent by Hera, placed as Cancer
- Helen in Egypt with Proteus (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Egyptian / Herodotean Trojan variant · Herodotean — Helen detained in Egypt; Troy fought without her
- Capricorn: Aegipan / Pan in the Typhonomachy (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Typhoeus aftermath · Catasterismic handbook — goat-fish Aegipan (Pan) as Capricorn
- Pisces: Aphrodite and Eros as Fishes (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Aphrodite · Catasterismic handbook — Aphrodite and Eros (or Syrian fish) as Pisces
- Aristomenes of Messenia (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Messenian resistance hero · Pausanian Messenian — Aristomenes’ exploits in the Messenian Wars
- 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
- Epimenides Purifies Athens
Local and lesser — Cretan holy man / Attic purification aetiology · Classical Greek notices — Epimenides summoned after Cylonian pollution
- Cypselus, Labda, and the Chest (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Corinthian foundation / Bacchiad oracle · Herodotean — lame Labda; oracles; baby hidden in a *kypsele*; tyrant of Corinth
- Euthymus and the Hero of Temesa (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Locrian / South Italian hero combat · Pausanian — haunted Temesa; Homeric sailor-daimon; boxer Euthymus frees the city
- Croesus Tests the Oracles (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Lydian logos / Delphic prestige · Herodotean — lamb-and-tortoise riddle; Delphi and Amphiaraus proven true
- Cacus and Heracles (Roman-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Roman reception of Heracles / Aventine aetiology · Roman transmission (Vergil / Ovid) of a Greek Heracles cattle-theft combat on the future site of Rome
- 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
- Contest of Homer and Hesiod
Local and lesser — biographical legend of the poets / Chalcidian games · Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi (imperial compilation of classical anecdotes) — King Amphidamas’s funeral games; Hesiod wins
- Anaxarete and Iphis (Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Cypriot / Roman metamorphosis / hard-hearted beloved · Roman transmission (Ovid) — stone-hearted maiden; Aphrodite’s vengeance
- Batrachomyomachia: Battle of Frogs and Mice
Local and lesser — Homeric pseudepigrapha / animal parody epic · Pseudo-Homeric (Hellenistic / imperial attribution to Homer or Pigres) — frog-mouse war as Iliadic parody