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Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes / Edith Hamilton ; illustrated by Steele Savage. New York: New American Library, 1969

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Collection number: NAMOSRL BL310 .H3 (Circulating)

Summary

These great stories from Greek, Roman and Norse mythologies are the fountainhead of all literature. In them, the figures of antiquity come vividly to life.

This is a reprint of the hardcover edition originally published by Little, Brown & Company, 1942.

Dates

  • Publication: 1969

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

1 Books : 335 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Language

English

Contents

Foreword (p.v)

Introduction to Classical Mythology: (p.13-23 inclusive)

The Mythology of the Greeks (p.14-20)

The Greek and Roman Writers of Mythology (p.21-23)

Part One. The Gods, the Creation, and Earliest Heroes (p.24-91 inclusive)

1. The Gods: (p.24-46 inclusive)

The Titans and the Twelve Great Olypians: Zeus (Jupiter) ; Hera (Juno) ; Poseidon (Neptune) ; Hades (Pluto) ; Pallas Athena (Minerva) ; Phoebus Apollo ; Artemis (Diana) ; Aphrodite (Venus) ; Hermes (Mercury) ; Ares (Mars) ; Hephaestus (Vulcan and Mulciber) ; Hestia (Vesta) (p.24-35)

The Lesser Gods of Olympus: Eros (Cupid) ; Anteros ; Himeros or Longing ; Hymen ; Hebe ; Iris ; Graces: Aglaia (Splendor), Euphrosyne (Mirth), Thalia (Good Cheer) ; Muses: Clio, Urania, Melpomene, Thalia, Terpsichore, Calliope, Erato, Polyhymnia, Euterpe ; Hesiod ; Pierus ; Themis ; Dike ; Nemesis ; Aidos (p.36-38)

The Gods of the Waters: Poseidon (Neptune) ; Ocean ; Pontus ; Nereus ; Triton ; Proteus ; The Naiads ; Leucothea (p.38)

The Underworld: Hades or Pluto ; Persephone ; Tartarus ; Erebus ; Charon ; Cerberus ; Three Judges: Rhadamanthus, Minos, Aeacus ; Rivers: Acheron, Cocytus, Phlegethon, Styx, Lethe ; The Erinyes (The Furies): Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto ; Sleep ; Death (p.39-40)

The Less Gods of Earth: Demeter (Ceres) ; Dionysus (Bacchus) ; Pan ; Silenus ; Brothers: Castor, Pollux (Polydeuces) ; Leda ; The Sileni ; The Satyrs ; Aeolus ; The Centaurs ; The Gorgons ; The Graiae ; The Sirens ; The Fates (Moirae (Parcae)): Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos

The Roman Gods: [more on the Roman versions of the Titans] ; Lares ; Penates ; Numina: Terminus, Priapus, Pales, Sylvanus ; Saturn ; Janus ; Faunus ; The Fauns ; Quirinus ; The Manes ; The Lemures or Larvae ; The Camenae ; Luncina ; Pomona ; Vertumnus (p.43-46)

2. The Two Great Gods of Earth: (p.47-62 inclusive)

Demeter (Ceres) (p.49-54)

Dionysus or Bacchus (p.54-62)

3. How the World and Mankind Were Created: (p.63-74)

4. The Earliest Heroes: (p.75-91 inclusive)

Prometheus and Io (p.75-78)

Europa (p.78-81)

The Cyclops Polyphemus (p.81-85)

Flower-myths: Narcissus, Hyacinth, Adonis (p.85-91)

Part Two. Stories of Love and Adventure: (p.92-140 inclusive)

5. Cupid and Psyche (p.92-100)

6. Eight Brief Tales of Loves (p.101-116 inclusive)

Pyramus and Thisbe (p.101-103)

Orpheus and Eurydice (p.103-105)

Ceyx and Alcyone (p.106-108)

Pygmalion and Galatea (p.108-111)

Baucis and Philemon (p.111-113)

Endymion (p.113-114)

Daphne (p.114-115)

Alpheus and Arethusa (p.116)

7. The Quest of the Golden Fleece (p.117-130)

8. Four Great Adventures: (p.131-139 inclusive)

Phaëthon (p.131-134)

Pegasus and Bellerophon (p.134-137)

Otus and Ephialtes (p.137-139)

Daedalus (p.139-140)

Part Three. The Great Heroes before the Trojan War: (p.141-177 inclusive)

9. Perseus (p.141-148)

10. Theseus (p.149-158)

11. Hercules (p.159-172)

12. Atalanta (p.173-177)

Part Four. The Heroes of the Trojan War: (p.178-235 inclusive)

13. The Trojan War (p.178-192)

14. The Fall of Troy (p.193-201)

15. The Adventures of Odysseus (p.202-219)

16. The Adventures of Aeneas (p.220-235 inclusive)

Part one: From Troy to Italy (p.220-226)

Part two: The Descent into the Lower World (p.226-230)

Part three: The War in Italy (p.230-235)

Part Five. The Great Families of Mythology: (236-277 inclusive)

17. The House of Atreus: (p.236-253 inclusive)

Tantalus and Niobe (p.237-239)

Agamemnon and His Children (p.240-248)

Iphigenia Among the Taurians (p.248-253)

18. The Royal House of Thebes: (p.254-267 inclusive)

Cadmus and His Children (p.254-256)

Oedipus (p.256-261)

Antigone (p.261-264)

The Seven Against Thebes (p.264-267)

19. The Royal House of Athens: (p.268-277 iclusive)

Cecrops (p.269)

Procne and Philomela (p.270-271)

Procris and Cephalus (p.271-273)

Orithyia and Boreas (p.273)

Creüsa and Ion (p.273-277)

Part Six: The Less Important Myths: (p.278-299 inclusive)

20. Midas - and Others (p.278-279 inclusive)

Aesculapius (p.279-281)

The Danaïds (p.281-282)

Glaucus and Scylla (p.282-284)

Erysichthon (p.284-285)

Pomona and Vertumnus (p.285-286)

21. Brief Myths Arranged Alphabetically (p. 287-299 inclusive)

Amalthea (p.287)

The Amazons (p.287)

Amymone (p.288)

Antiope (p.288)

Arachne (p.288)

Arion (p.289)

Aristaeus (p.289)

Aurora and Tithonus (p.289-290)

Biton and Cleobis (p.290)

Callisto (p.290-291)

Chiron (p.291)

Clytie (p.291)

Dryope (p.292)

Epimenides (p.292)

Erichthonius (p.292-293)

Hero and Leander (p.293)

The Hyades (p.293)

Ibycus and the Cranes (p.293)

Leto (Latona) (p.294)

Linus (p.294)

Marpessa (p.294)

Marsysas (p.295)

Melampus (p.295)

Merope (p.295)

The Myrmidons (p.296)

Nisus and Scylla (p.296-297)

Orion (p.297)

The Pleiades (p.297)

Rhoecus (p.298)

Salmoneus (p.298)

Sisyphus (p.289)

Tyro (p.298-299)

Part Seven. The Mythology of the Norsemen: (p.300-315 inclusive)

Introduction to Norse Mythology (p.300-302)

22. The Stories of Signy and Sigurd (p.303-307)

23. The Norse Gods (p.308-315 inclusive)

The Creation (p.312-313)

The Norse Wisdom (p.314-315)

Genealogical Tables: (p.316-321 inclusive)

The Principal Gods (p.316)

Descendants of Prometheus (p.317)

Ancestros of Perseus and Hercules (p.318)

The House of Troy (p.319)

The Royal House of Thebes and the Atreidae (p.320)

The House of Athens (p.321)

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