Great Goddesses, Life Lessons From Myths and Monsters by Gill, Nikita -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Also by Nikita Gill Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents 1. A Mortal Interlude

Chaos Eurynome: The Mother of All Things Chaos to Nyx, Goddess of the Night Nyx to Erebus Gaia A Primordial Love Story Questions for the Daughters of Nyx

2. A Mortal Interlude

Gaia’s Golden Children The Four Stages of a Poisoning The Unloved Ungods: Hecatoncheires A Titan Sisterhood What It Means to Be a Forgotten Magic Maker The River of the Dead Rhea, Mother to Gods Leto, Mother to Sun and the Moon House of Hyperion, Titan of Light Gaia Teaches Rhea Retribution The Titanomachy

3. A Mortal Interlude

Young Zeus: The Crossroads Metis and Zeus Metis, the Forgotten King Maker The Metamorphoses of Zeus The Making of a God-Queen Hymn for Hera Hera, After Zeus, After Athena Rises A Place to Find Purpose Athena’s Tale Athena, After Pallas and Athena The Birth of Ares War and Poetry Ares, After Craving (A synonym for Aphrodite) The Goddess of Love: Aphrodite Love and War Aphrodite’s Gift Night Songs to Aphrodite Aphrodite, After The Blacksmith God Lessons from Hephaestus The Marriage Bed Hephaestus’s Tale The Sun God Apollo’s Secret Apollo to Icarus The Moon Goddess The Moon Writes a Love Letter to Artemis An Interlude with Artemis Modern Apollo and Artemis Athena and Artemis’s Contemporary Manifesto Poseidon, God of the Sea Myths about the Water Dispelled Poseidon to Zeus Amphitrite Chides Poseidon Amphitrite Modern-day Sea God(s) Hestia Advice from Hestia to Girls Goddess of Harvest Garden Walks with Demeter A Friendship: Demeter and Hestia Demeter to Hades Persephone to Demeter Hades to Persephone Persephone to Hades Persephone to Theseus and Pirithous Persephone and Hades, After The Messenger, the Trickster, Guide of the Dead The Life of Every Party Conversations Between Hermes and Dionysus

4. A Mortal Interlude

Monster Mine Asterion Athena to Medusa Echidna to Typhon Scylla Gorgon (A Letter to the Patriarchy) Lamia to Scylla The Erinyes: Vengeance-skinned Fury

5. A Mortal Interlude: To the Poets

Defy a God Danaë, Mother of Perseus Andromeda, Princess of Ethiopia, Wife of Perseus Penelope, Wife of Odysseus Argos, Dog of Odysseus Helen Briseis Remembers Hecuba, Wife of Priam, Mother of Paris Iphigenia, Daughter of Agamemnon Megara Laments from the Underworld Hippolyta Speaks to the Gods Io Explains Recovery to Europa Ariadne

Aftermath

Atlas, in Our Era

A Glossary Acknowledgements About the Author