Illustrations

1. The Olympians, triumphant on Mount Olympus.

2. Prometheus continues to endure his terrible punishment.

3. The shower of gold.

4. Danaë and Perseus, rescued from the wooden box.

5. Perseus holds the head of Medusa, whose body lies on the ground.

6. The Head of Medusa.

7. Perseus rescues Andromeda from the sea dragon Cetus.

8. The infant Heracles choking a snake.

9. The creation of the Milky Way.

10. Heracles’ First Labour, the great Nemean Lion.

11. Heracles holds the Erymanthian boar over Eurystheus, cowering in his stone jar.

12. An Amazon defending herself from one of Heracles’ men.

13. Heracles, with his lion skin, club and bow, navigates while standing inside the Cup of Helios.

14. The Garden of the Hesperides.

15. The Gigantomachy, or the Fall of the Giants.

16. Pegasus and Bellerophon.

17. Orpheus plays for love, before Hades and Persephone.

18. Orpheus turns too quickly.

19. The Pythia at Delphi.

20. Hylas and the nymphs.

21. The Clashing Rocks.

22. Jason taming the Khalkotauroi.

23. Medea.

24. Medea tames the Colchis Dragon.

25. Jason finds the Golden Fleece.

26. The Calydonian Hunt.

27. The Foot Race.

28. Oedipus answers the riddle of the Sphinx.

29. The Labours of Theseus.

30. Theseus and the Marathonian Bull.

31. The art of bull-leaping.

32. The Tribute.

33. The Cretan Labyrinth.

34. The Minotaur.

35. The Fall of Icarus.

36. Ariadne, abandoned.

37. Theseus in Athens’ Syntagma Square.