Mythology by Hamilton, Edith -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Welcome Preface Introduction to Classical Mythology

The Mythology of the Greeks The Greek and Roman Writers of Mythology

Part One: The Gods, the Creation, and the Earliest Heroes

Chapter I: The Gods

The Titans and the Twelve Great Olympians The Lesser Gods of Olympus The Gods of the Waters The Underworld The Lesser Gods of Earth The Roman Gods

Chapter II: The Two Great Gods of Earth

Demeter (Ceres) Dionysus or Bacchus

Chapter III: How the World and Mankind Were Created Chapter IV: The Earliest Heroes

Prometheus and Io Europa The Cyclops Polyphemus Flower-Myths: Narcissus, Hyacinth, Adonis

Part Two: Stories of Love and Adventure

Chapter I: Cupid and Psyche Chapter II: Eight Brief Tales of Lovers

Pyramus and Thisbe Orpheus and Eurydice Ceyx and Alcyone Pygmalion and Galatea Baucis and Philemon Endymion Daphne Alpheus and Arethusa

Chapter III: The Quest of the Golden Fleece Chapter IV: Four Great Adventures

Phaëthon Pegasus and Bellerophon Otus and Ephialtes Daedalus

Part Three: The Great Heroes before the Trojan War

Chapter I: Perseus Chapter II: Theseus Chapter III: Hercules Chapter IV: Atalanta

Part Four: The Heroes of the Trojan War

Chapter I: The Trojan War

Prologue: The Judgment of Paris The Trojan War

Chapter II: The Fall of Troy Chapter III: The Adventures of Odysseus Chapter IV: The Adventures of Aeneas

Part One: From Troy to Italy Part Two: The Descent into the Lower World Part Three: The War in Italy

Part Five: The Great Families of Mythology

Chapter I: The House of Atreus

Tantalus and Niobe Agamemnon and His Children Iphigenia Among the Taurians

Chapter II: The Royal House of Thebes

Cadmus and His Children Oedipus Antigone The Seven against Thebes

Chapter III: The Royal House of Athens

Cecrops Procne and Philomela Procris and Cephalus Orithyia and Boreas Creüsa and Ion

Part Six: The Less Important Myths

Chapter I: Midas—and Others

Aesculapius The Danaïds Glaucus and Scylla Erysichthon Pomona and Vertumnus

Chapter II: Brief Myths Arranged Alphabetically

Part Seven: The Mythology of the Norsemen

Introduction to Norse Mythology Chapter I: The Stories of Signy and Sigurd Chapter II: The Norse Gods

The Creation The Norse Wisdom

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