Foreword | p. vii |
Introduction to Classical Mythology | p. 3 |
The Mythology of the Greeks | p. 4 |
The Greek and Roman Writers of Mythology | p. 15 |
The Gods, the Creation, and the Earliest Heroes | |
The Gods | p. 21 |
The Titans and the Twelve Great Olympians | p. 21 |
The Lesser Gods of Olympus | p. 38 |
The Gods of the Waters | p. 41 |
The Underworld | p. 42 |
The Lesser Gods of Earth | p. 44 |
The Roman Gods | p. 49 |
The Two Great Gods of Earth | p. 53 |
Demeter (Ceres) | p. 57 |
Dionysus or Bacchus | p. 64 |
How the World and Mankind Were Created | p. 77 |
The Earliest Heroes | p. 95 |
Prometheus and Io | p. 95 |
Europa | p. 100 |
The Cyclops Polyphemus | p. 105 |
Flower-Myths: Narcissus, Hyacinth, Adonis | p. 111 |
Stories of Love and Adventure | |
Cupid and Psyche | p. 121 |
Eight Brief Tales of Lovers | p. 135 |
Pyramus and Thisbe | p. 135 |
Orpheus and Eurydice | p. 138 |
Ceyx and Alcyone | p. 142 |
Pygmalion and Galatea | p. 145 |
Baucis and Philemon | p. 150 |
Endymion | p. 154 |
Daphne | p. 155 |
Alpheus and Arethusa | p. 157 |
The Quest of the Golden Fleece | p. 159 |
Four Great Adventures | p. 180 |
Phaethon | p. 180 |
Pegasus and Bellerophon | p. 184 |
Otus and Ephialtes | p. 190 |
Daedalus | p. 192 |
The Great Heroes before the Trojan War | |
Perseus | p. 197 |
Theseus | p. 209 |
Hercules | p. 224 |
Atalanta | p. 244 |
The Heroes of the Trojan War | |
The Trojan War | p. 255 |
Prologue: The Judgment of Paris | p. 256 |
The Trojan War | p. 259 |
The Fall of Troy | p. 277 |
The Adventures of Odysseus | p. 291 |
The Adventures of Aeneas | p. 319 |
From Troy to Italy | p. 320 |
The Descent into the Lower World | p. 328 |
The War in Italy | p. 335 |
The Great Families of Mythology | |
The House of Atreus | p. 345 |
Tantalus and Niobe | p. 346 |
Agamemnon and His Children | p. 350 |
Iphigenia among the Taurians | p. 363 |
The Royal House of Thebes | p. 372 |
Cadmus and His Children | p. 372 |
Oedipus | p. 375 |
Antigone | p. 383 |
The Seven against Thebes | p. 388 |
The Royal House of Athens | p. 392 |
Cecrops | p. 393 |
Procne and Philomela | p. 394 |
Procris and Cephalus | p. 397 |
Orithyia and Boreas | p. 399 |
Creusa and Ion | p. 400 |
The Less Important Myths | |
Midas - and Others | p. 411 |
Midas | p. 411 |
Aesculapius | p. 413 |
The Danaids | p. 415 |
Glaucus and Scylla | p. 417 |
Erysichthon | p. 418 |
Pomona and Vertumnus | p. 422 |
Brief Myths Arranged Alphabetically | p. 424 |
The Mythology of the Norsemen | |
Introduction to Norse Mythology | p. 443 |
The Stories of Signy and Sigurd | p. 447 |
The Norse Gods | p. 454 |
The Creation | p. 460 |
The Norse Wisdom | p. 462 |
Geneological Tables | p. 467 |
Index | p. 475 |
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