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The classic collection of Greek, Roman & Norse myths.

Edith Hamilton (1868-1963) was born of American parents in Dresden, Germany, and grew up in Indiana. Through the first quarter of the twentieth century she was the headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. Upon retiring, she began to write about the civilizations of the ancient world and soon gained world renown as a classicist. Her celebrated and bestselling books include Mythology, The Greek Way, The Roman Way, and The Echo of Greece. She regarded as the high point of her life a 1957 ceremony in which King Paul of Greece named her an honorary citizen of Athens.

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction to Classical Mythology	p. 3
The Mythology of the Greeks	p. 4
The Greek and Roman Writers of Mythology	p. 15
The Gods, the Creation, and the Earliest Heroes
The Gods	p. 21
The Titans and the Twelve Great Olympians	p. 21
The Lesser Gods of Olympus	p. 38
The Gods of the Waters	p. 41
The Underworld	p. 42
The Lesser Gods of Earth	p. 44
The Roman Gods	p. 49
The Two Great Gods of Earth	p. 53
Demeter (Ceres)	p. 57
Dionysus or Bacchus	p. 64
How the World and Mankind Were Created	p. 77
The Earliest Heroes	p. 95
Prometheus and Io	p. 95
Europa	p. 100
The Cyclops Polyphemus	p. 105
Flower-Myths: Narcissus, Hyacinth, Adonis	p. 111
Stories of Love and Adventure
Cupid and Psyche	p. 121
Eight Brief Tales of Lovers	p. 135
Pyramus and Thisbe	p. 135
Orpheus and Eurydice	p. 138
Ceyx and Alcyone	p. 142
Pygmalion and Galatea	p. 145
Baucis and Philemon	p. 150
Endymion	p. 154
Daphne	p. 155
Alpheus and Arethusa	p. 157
The Quest of the Golden Fleece	p. 159
Four Great Adventures	p. 180
Phaethon	p. 180
Pegasus and Bellerophon	p. 184
Otus and Ephialtes	p. 190
Daedalus	p. 192
The Great Heroes before the Trojan War
Perseus	p. 197
Theseus	p. 209
Hercules	p. 224
Atalanta	p. 244
The Heroes of the Trojan War
The Trojan War	p. 255
Prologue: The Judgment of Paris	p. 256
The Trojan War	p. 259
The Fall of Troy	p. 277
The Adventures of Odysseus	p. 291
The Adventures of Aeneas	p. 319
From Troy to Italy	p. 320
The Descent into the Lower World	p. 328
The War in Italy	p. 335
The Great Families of Mythology
The House of Atreus	p. 345
Tantalus and Niobe	p. 346
Agamemnon and His Children	p. 350
Iphigenia among the Taurians	p. 363
The Royal House of Thebes	p. 372
Cadmus and His Children	p. 372
Oedipus	p. 375
Antigone	p. 383
The Seven against Thebes	p. 388
The Royal House of Athens	p. 392
Cecrops	p. 393
Procne and Philomela	p. 394
Procris and Cephalus	p. 397
Orithyia and Boreas	p. 399
Creusa and Ion	p. 400
The Less Important Myths
Midas - and Others	p. 411
Midas	p. 411
Aesculapius	p. 413
The Danaids	p. 415
Glaucus and Scylla	p. 417
Erysichthon	p. 418
Pomona and Vertumnus	p. 422
Brief Myths Arranged Alphabetically	p. 424
The Mythology of the Norsemen
Introduction to Norse Mythology	p. 443
The Stories of Signy and Sigurd	p. 447
The Norse Gods	p. 454
The Creation	p. 460
The Norse Wisdom	p. 462
Geneological Tables	p. 467
Index	p. 475
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Mythology

Mythology

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