Table of Contents

	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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