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Part One: The Beginning

Out of Chaos

Chaos

The First Order

Erebus, Nyx
Gaia, Tartarus, and Gaia’s children

The Second Order

Gaia and Ouranos’s children — 6 males and 6 females, Cyclopes, Hecatonchires
Kronos’s crime
Birth of Aphrodite and other creatures from Ouranos’s DNA
Establishment of the Titans
Birth of Kronos and Rhea’s children, including Zeus

Part Two: The Beginning

Clash of the Titans

Titanomachy
The Muses
The Charites/Three Graces
The Horai
The Moirai/Fates
The Keres
The Gorgons
Nymphs
Atlas’s punishment
Kronos’s punishment

The Third Order

Double wedding: Zeus and Hera, Aphrodite and Hephaestus
The bee and its sting
Metis as a fly, and Zeus
Birth of Athena
Birth of Artemis and Apollo
Birth of Hermes
Establishment of the Olympians

Part One: The Toys of Zeus

Prometheus

Creation of humans
Prometheus’s gift of fire
The Golden Age

The Punishments

Pandora and her jar
Afterlife (Hermes, Tartarus, Hades, Thanatos, Charon)
Prometheus’s punishment

Persephone and the Chariot

Kidnapping of Persephone, Hades’s trick, and the start of the seasons
Hermaphroditus and Silenus

Cupid and Psyche

The Erotes
Psyche’s life and how she met Eros

Part Two: The Toys of Zeus

Mortals

Io and Zeus
Death of Argus
Athena and Athens

Phaeton

Phaeton’s absent father, Apollo
Death of Phaeton and birth of the mute swan

Cadmus

The search for Europa
Creation of the alphabet
Killing of the Ismenian Dragon
Creation of Thebes
Cadmus and Harmonia, and the cursed necklace

Twice Born

Semele and Zeus (disguised)
Hera’s revenge
Birth of Dionysus

The Beautiful and the Damned

Actaeon angering Artemis
Erysichthon angering Demeter

The Doctor and the Crow

Birth of Asclepius and medicine
Asclepius and Epione’s children
Athena’s gift and Asclepius’s death

Crime and Punishment

Ixion and the Wheel of Ixion
Tantalus’s crime

Sisyphus

Sisyphus’s tricks in life and death

Hubris

Niobe and the Weeping Rock
The musical competition between Apollo and Marsyas

Arachne

The weaving competition between Arachne and Athena
Birth of the first spider

More Metamorphoses

Nisus and Scylla, the sea-eagle and the gull
Callisto the bear
Procne and Philomela, the swallow and the nightingale
Ganymede and Zeus
Selene, Cephalus and Procris
The Lailaps and Alopex Teumesios paradox
Endymion and Selene

Eos and Tithonus The Bloom of Youth

Hyacinthus, Apollo and Zephyrus
Crocus and Smilax
Aphrodite and Adonis

Echo and Narcissus

Tiresias the seer
Narcissus’s oracle
Echo’s lie and Hera’s revenge
Narcissus and Echo’s meeting

Lovers

Pyramus and Thisbe: star-crossed lovers

Galateas

Acis and Galatea
Origin of the Ekdusia festival
Leucippos, Daphne and Apollo
Galatea and Pygmalion
Hero and Leander

Arion and the Dolphin Philemon and Baucis, or Hospitality Rewarded Phrygia and the Gordian Knot Midas (and his gold fingers)