1. Hercules and Iphicles born to Alcmene
Hercules and Iphicles born to Alcmene. One son of Jupiter, one of Amphitryon.

2. Hercules’ cousin Eurystheus sends Hercules on the 12 labors.

3. Hercules (actually Commodus as Hercules) Note the attributes (Nemean Lion pelt, club, apples of Hesperides, even the horn of Achelous (cornucopia)

4. Hercules defeats Cacus on future site of Rome
Hercules defeats Cacus on future site of Rome. Evander tells the story to Aeneas in the Aeneid.

5. Hercules defeats the giant Antaeus by keeping off the ground (his mother Gaia gave him strength.

6. Deianira grabbed by Centaur Nessus
Deianira grabbed by Centaur Nessus. Hercules kills it, BUT Nessus tricks Deianira.

7. Hercules’ pyre lit by Poas (or son Philoctetes) Philoctetes receives the bow.

8. Orpheus, son of the muse Calliope and guitar hero, tries to retrieve his wife Eurydice from the underworld.

9. Orpheus, a failure, torn apart by Thracian Maenads

10. Jupiter abducts Ganymede as an Eagle
Jupiter abducts Ganymede as an Eagle. Becomes the cupbearer for the gods.

11. Zephyr kills Hyacinthus, Apollo’s FRIEND by redirecting a discus

12. Pygmalion and “Galatea”

13. Adonis, son of Myrrha turned to a tree (and her father Cinyras) loved by Venus, killed by a boar.

14. Atalanta and Hippomenes

15. Midas, king of Phrygia, gets golden touch from Bacchus for returning a lost Silenus

16. Laomedon cheats Apollo and Neptune to build the walls of Troy. Bad idea

17. At the wedding of Pirithous, king of Lapiths and Hippodamia in Thrace, centaurs (led by Eurityon) get drunk and try to rape bride.

18. Miscellaneous Myth: Odds and Ends (Start page 1)

19. Acis and the Nereid Galatea. Polyphemus becomes jealous and kills Acis.

20. Neptune and Amphitrite. Son is Triton.

21. Scylla (dog monster) and Charybdis (whirlpool)

22. Eleusinian Mysteries: Demeter and Persephone (Kore) and Triptolemus

23. Rivers of the Underworld: Styx (death), Lethe (forgetfulness), Acheron (woe), Cocytus (wailing), Phlegethon (fire)

24. Tytios in Tartarus. Liver eaten by Vulture
Tytios in Tartarus. Liver eaten by Vulture. Punished because he tried to rape Leto (at Hera’s behest)

25. Ixion on a wheel in Tartarus because he tried to rape Hera
Ixion on a wheel in Tartarus because he tried to rape Hera. She becomes a cloud. Gives birth to Centaurs.

26. Danaids were 50 daughters of Danaus
Danaids were 50 daughters of Danaus. Forced to marry 50 cousins (sons of Aegyptus). Killed grooms on wedding night. Only one not to do it was Hypermnestra who spared Lynceus.

27. Sisyphus rolls a rock eternally. Tried to cheat death
Sisyphus rolls a rock eternally. Tried to cheat death. Ended up in Tartarus.

28. Tantalus punished in Tartarus for feeding son Pelops to gods.

29. Oedipus. Son of Laius and Iocaste
Oedipus. Son of Laius and Iocaste. Exposed after birth, found and raised by Polybus and Merope. Defeated Sphinx. Had children Polynices, Etiocles, Antigone, Ismene.

30. Polynices and Etiocles fight over Thebes (Seven Against Thebes - Epigonoi) Antigone buries her brother Polynices

31. Agamemnon’s return. Killed by Clytemnestra and Aegistus
Agamemnon’s return. Killed by Clytemnestra and Aegistus. Cassandra as well.

32. Orestes kills his mom Clytemnestra. Electra helps
Orestes kills his mom Clytemnestra. Electra helps. Hounded by the Eumenides.

33. Post Iliad

34. Achilles kills the Amazonian Queen Penthesleia

35. Memnon from Aethiopia comes to help Troy
Memnon from Aethiopia comes to help Troy. Son of Eos (Aurora) and Tithonos. He received divine armor and was killed by Achilles.

36. Ajax the Greater vies with Odysseus for Achilles’ armor. Loses
Ajax the Greater vies with Odysseus for Achilles’ armor. Loses. Kills sheep in rage. Commits Suicide.

37. Neoptolemus and Odysseus fetch Philoctetes’ bow from Lemnos

38. Trojan Horse: Conceived by Odysseus, made by Epeos. Troy falls

39. Odysseus returns home

40. Polyphemus is made drunk and blinded by “Nobody”

41. Circe the witch from the isle Aeaea turns Odysseus’ men into swine
Circe the witch from the isle Aeaea turns Odysseus’ men into swine. With Circe he has Telegonus, who will eventually kill Odysseus.

42. Calypso, the nymph of Ogygia offers immortality to Odysseus

43. Odysseus rescued by the Phaeacians, whereupon he tells the story of his adventures. Nausicaa, Alcinoos, and Arete are the royals.

44. Eurycleia recognizes the scar
Eurycleia recognizes the scar. Eumaeus the swineherd recognizes Odysseus as well, as does his dog Argus.

45. Odysseus handles his business with the suitors of his wife Penelope, especially Antinous.

46. More Odds and Ends

47. Apollo chases Marpessa
Apollo chases Marpessa. She rejects him to make her husband Idas happy (Idas had kidnapped her in a winged chariot)

48. Important children of Priam: Deiphobus – impersonated by Athena to make Hector stop running round the walls of Troy Helenus – seer brother to Hector, tells Hector to go to the city during Diomedes’ aristeia. Later takes in Andromache after the war and lives in Buthrotum where Aeneas visits him Cassandra – seer girl who was raped in Athena’s temple by Ajax the Lesser and killed when taken home to Mycenae by Agamemnon Polyxena – sacrificed at the grave of Achilles by Neoptolemus

49. Ajax the Lesser (son of Oileus) rapes Cassandra in Athena’s temple as she clings to the goddess for help. Athena kills him on his way home.

50. The Palladium: Sacred statue of Athena in Troy
The Palladium: Sacred statue of Athena in Troy. Stolen by Diomedes and Odysseus after hearing a prohecy that it must be taken for Troy to fall.

51. Hercules rejected by Iole (whom he loved while married to Deianira – thus D. gave him the poison shirt from Nessus)

52. Hercules had to serve Omphale for ONE year and weave her weaving.

53. Ceyx and Alcyone. Ceyx dies at sea. Alcyone jumps off cliff
Ceyx and Alcyone. Ceyx dies at sea. Alcyone jumps off cliff. Both turn to birds. She lays eggs in nest on calm sea only at certain time of year (HALCYON DAYS)

54. Picus loved Canens, (daughter of Janus and Venilia) scorns Circe
Picus loved Canens, (daughter of Janus and Venilia) scorns Circe. Circe turns him into a woodpecker.

55. FINIS