The Greek Myths, Volume 1 (87 page)

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