Titan Cronus overthrows his father Uranus with a sickle and seizes control of the universe.

Zeus frees the imprisoned Cyclopes, who forge him a thunderbolt; he defeats the Titans and banishes them to Tartarus.

Hades kidnaps Persephone and brings her to the underworld; her grief-stricken mother Demeter stops all crops from growing.

Zeus orders Persephone returned, but because she ate pomegranate seeds underground, she must spend part of each year with Hades.

Prometheus steals sacred fire from the gods to give to humans; Zeus chains him to a mountain where an eagle devours his liver daily.

Zeus creates Pandora as punishment for men; she opens a jar Zeus gave her and releases evils and misery into the world.

Zeus floods the entire earth to purge wickedness; only virtuous Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha survive by building an ark.

Perseus uses a polished shield, winged sandals, and a cap of invisibility to cut off the Gorgon Medusa's head.

Hera drives Heracles to murderous madness; he kills his own children and is sentenced to twelve labors under his cousin Eurystheus.

Heracles completes all twelve labors assigned by Eurystheus, winning fame and admiration throughout all of Greece.

Theseus descends into the Cretan labyrinth and kills the Minotaur with the secret help of King Minos's daughter Ariadne.

After a servant reveals his true parentage, Oedipus discovers he has fulfilled the oracle; Jocasta dies by suicide and he blinds himself.

Medea uses sorcery to help Jason complete the Colchian king's impossible tasks and steal the sacred Golden Fleece.

Jason abandons Medea for a Corinthian princess; Medea kills his new bride and flees, leaving Jason to die alone and forgotten.

Greek warriors hidden inside a wooden horse pour out and sack Troy; Trojan prince Aeneas escapes and founds Rome.

This pool follows the most essential story beats of the entire collection, from the first divine power struggle to the founding of Rome. It traces the rise of Zeus and the Olympians, the origin of the seasons through Persephone's abduction, and Zeus's punishments of Prometheus and humanity. The pool then moves through the major mortal heroes — Perseus slaying Medusa, Heracles enduring his twelve labors, and Theseus defeating the Minotaur — before turning to the tragic fates of Oedipus and Jason. It concludes with the Trojan War and its aftermath, linking the world of Greek myth to the founding of the Roman Empire.

The headline events from creation through the fall of Troy.

Zeus swallows his wife Metis to prevent a prophecy from being fulfilled; Athena later springs fully armed from her father's head.

Athena defeats her own student Arachne in a weaving contest and transforms the boastful girl into a spider as punishment.

Poseidon and Athena compete for a great city by offering gifts; citizens choose Athena's olive tree over Poseidon's saltwater spring.

Apollo travels to sacred Delphi, defeats the dragon Python that guarded the oracle, and claims the shrine for himself.

Newborn Hermes steals Apollo's cattle and disguises the route; after both plead before Zeus, they reconcile and exchange gifts.

Phaëthon demands to drive his father Helios's sun chariot, loses control of the fiery horses, and Zeus destroys him with a thunderbolt.

Healer Asclepius raises mortals from the dead, angering the Fates and Hades; Zeus kills him and Apollo kills the Cyclopes in revenge.

Orpheus descends into the underworld singing, moves Persephone to grant Eurydice's release, but looks back too soon and loses her again.

Pelops wins the princess Hippodamia by defeating her father in a chariot race; funeral games held in the king's honor become the Olympic Games.

Bellerophon wakes in Athena's temple to find a golden bridle, uses it to tame the winged horse Pegasus, and slays the monstrous Chimera.

Believing himself equal to the gods, Bellerophon tries to ride Pegasus up to Olympus; Pegasus throws him and he dies an unknown beggar.

After his son is killed in Athens, King Minos demands the city send seven young men and seven women each year to feed the Minotaur.

Ariadne secretly helps Theseus navigate the labyrinth; afterward, Dionysus appears and orders Theseus to leave Ariadne behind on Naxos.

Meleager and Atalanta together slay the Caledonian Boar; Meleager kills his taunting uncles and his furious mother ends his life in revenge.

Strife goddess Eris throws a golden apple at a wedding; Paris judges it belongs to Aphrodite, who promises him Helen, sparking the Trojan War.

This pool gathers important story beats that did not make the headline list but are essential to understanding the full sweep of the myths. It begins with key events among the Olympians — Athena's birth, her contest with Arachne, the rivalry over Athens, and Apollo's claim of Delphi — before moving through the fateful stories of Asclepius, Orpheus, and Phaëthon. The pool then turns to the mortal heroes, covering the origins of the Olympic Games, Bellerophon's rise and fall, the origins of the Minotaur tribute, and the Caledonian Boar Hunt. It closes with the divine quarrel at a wedding that ignited the Trojan War, linking the gods' vanity to the destruction of a civilization.

Significant divine and heroic moments that shaped the wider mythic world.

Rhea tricks Cronus into swallowing a stone instead of Zeus; Zeus grows up hidden on Crete and returns to free his siblings.

Zeus pins the monster Typhon under a mountain but lets Typhon's mate Echidna survive in a cave as a challenge to future heroes.

Hera tricks Zeus into surrendering the disguised cow Io; after Argus is killed, Hera sends a gadfly that chases Io all the way to Egypt.

Hera tricks Semele into asking Zeus to reveal his true divine form; the sight of him burns Semele to ashes but Zeus saves the unborn Dionysus.

When the terrified pirates who kidnapped Dionysus leap overboard in fear, he mercifully transforms them into dolphins rather than letting them drown.

Eos wins eternal life for her mortal love Tithonus but forgets to ask for eternal youth; he slowly shrivels into a chirping grasshopper.

Narcissus wastes away gazing at his own reflection in a pool, unable to leave; Echo wastes away longing for him beside the water.

Athena instructs Cadmus to sow a field with dragon's teeth; armed warriors sprout from the earth and fight until only five loyal ones remain.

Zeus visits the imprisoned Danaë as a shower of gold; when their son Perseus is born, Acrisius sets them both adrift at sea.

Perseus accidentally kills a spectator at athletic games with a discus blown off course; the dead man is his grandfather Acrisius, fulfilling the oracle.

Deianira accidentally poisons Heracles with a centaur's blood; he orders his own funeral pyre built and Zeus carries him up to Olympus.

Theseus forgets to raise the promised white sails after killing the Minotaur; his father Aegeus sees the black sails and throws himself into the sea.

Theseus offers the blinded and exiled Oedipus sanctuary in Athens, giving the fallen king a peaceful place to spend his final days.

Thetis secretly holds baby Achilles over fire to burn away his mortality; Peleus interrupts the ritual and she leaves for the sea forever.

Paris shoots Achilles with a fatal arrow, ending the life of Greece's greatest warrior exactly as the Fates had decreed.

This pool focuses on the pivotal moments when a single choice, secret, or revelation shifted the course of a myth forever. It opens with the cunning tricks that allowed the Olympian age to begin — Rhea outwitting Cronus and Zeus pinning Typhon — before tracing a series of fateful decisions made by gods and mortals alike. Each event marks a turn of no return: Semele's fatal wish, a grasshopper that was once a prince, and a reflection that became a grave. The pool moves through the mortal heroes — Danaë set adrift, Heracles ascending to divinity, Oedipus given sanctuary — before closing with the Trojan War's defining tragedy: Thetis's interrupted ritual and the arrow that killed Achilles.