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MAP OF THE GREEK WORLD

1
. See
4
;
69
;
83
;
84
;
87
;
89
;
99
; 106; 136; 161; 162–5; 170.

*
Since this was written, history has repeated itself disastrously.

1
. Scholiast on Homer’s
Iliad
xxii. 29; Nonnus:
Dionysiaca
xlvii. 34–245; Hyginus:
Fabula
130 and
Poetic Astronomy
ii. 4; Apollodorus: i. 8. 1 and iii. 14. 7; Athenaeus: xiv. 10; Festus
sub
Oscillantes; Statius:
Thebaid
xi. 644–7; Servius on Virgil’s
Georgics
ii. 388–9.

Table of Contents

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright Page

CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

THE GREEK MYTHS

1: THE PELASGIAN CREATION MYTH
2: THE HOMERIC AND ORPHIC CREATION MYTHS
3: THE OLYMPIAN CREATION MYTH
4: TWO PHILOSOPHICAL CREATION MYTHS
5: THE FIVE AGES OF MAN
6: THE CASTRATION OF URANUS
7: THE DETHRONEMENT OF CRONUS
8: THE BIRTH OF ATHENE
9: ZEUS AND METIS
10: THE FATES
11: THE BIRTH OF APHRODITE
12: HERA AND HER CHILDREN
13: ZEUS AND HERA
14: BIRTHS OF HERMES, APOLLO, ARTEMIS, AND DIONYSUS
15: THE BIRTH OF EROS
16: POSEIDON’S NATURE AND DEEDS
17: HERMES’S NATURE AND DEEDS
18: APHRODITE’S NATURE AND DEEDS
19: ARES’S NATURE AND DEEDS
20: HESTIA’S NATURE AND DEEDS
21: APOLLO’S NATURE AND DEEDS
22: ARTEMIS’S NATURE AND DEEDS
23: HEPHAESTUS’S NATURE AND DEEDS
24: DEMETER’S NATURE AND DEEDS
25: ATHENE’S NATURE AND DEEDS
26: PAN’S NATURE AND DEEDS
27: DIONYSUS’S NATURE AND DEEDS
28: ORPHEUS
29: GANYMEDES
30: ZAGREUS
31: THE GODS OF THE UNDERWORLD
32: TYCHE AND NEMESIS
33: THE CHILDREN OF THE SEA
34: THE CHILDREN OF ECHIDNE
35: THE GIANTS’ REVOLT
36: TYPHON
37: THE ALOEIDS
38: DEUCALION’S FLOOD
39: ATLAS AND PROMETHEUS
40: EOS
41: ORION
42: HELIUS
43: THE SONS OF HELLEN
44: ION
45: ALCYONE AND CEYX
46: TEREUS
47: ERECHTHEUS AND EUMOLPUS
48: BOREAS
49: ALOPE
50: ASCLEPIUS
51: THE ORACLES
52: THE ALPHABET
53: THE DACTYLS
54: THE TELCHINES
55: THE EMPUSAE
56: IO
57: PHORONEUS
58: EUROPE AND CADMUS
59: CADMUS AND HARMONIA
60: BELUS AND THE DANAIDS
61: LAMIA
62: LEDA
63: IXION
64: ENDYMION
65: PYGMALION AND GALATEA
66: AEACUS
67: SISYPHUS
68: SALMONEUS AND TYRO
69: ALCESTIS
70: ATHAMAS
71: THE MARES OF GLAUCUS
72: MELAMPUS
73: PERSEUS
74: THE RIVAL TWINS
75: BELLEROPHON
76: ANTIOPE
77: NIOBE
78: CAENIS AND CAENEUS
79: ERIGONE
80: THE CALYDONIAN BOAR
81: TELAMON AND PELEUS
82: ARISTAEUS
83: MIDAS
84: CLEOBIS AND BITON
85: NARCISSUS
86: PHYLLIS AND CARYA
87: ARION
88: MINOS AND HIS BROTHERS
89: THE LOVES OF MINOS
90: THE CHILDREN OF PASIPHAË
91: SCYLLA AND NISUS
92: DAEDALUS AND TALOS
93: CATREUS AND ALTHAEMENES
94: THE SONS OF PANDION
95: THE BIRTH OF THESEUS
96: THE LABOURS OF THESEUS
97: THESEUS AND MEDEA
98: THESEUS IN CRETE
99: THE FEDERALIZATION OF ATTICA
100: THESEUS AND THE AMAZONS
101: PHAEDRA AND HIPPOLYTUS
102: LAPITHS AND CENTAURS
103: THESEUS IN TARTARUS
104: THE DEATH OF THESEUS

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Footnotes

INTRODUCTION
Page 12
39: ATLAS AND PROMETHEUS
Page 147
79: ERIGONE
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