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Foreword V
INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
The Mythology of the Greeks
The Greek and Roman Writers of Mythology
PART ONE：The Gods, the Creation, and the Earliest Heroes
1. THE GODS
The Titans and the Twelve Great Olympians
The Lesser Gods of Olympus
The Gods of the Waters
The Underworld
The Roman Gods
2. THE Two GREAT GODS OF EARTH
Demeter (Ceres)
Dionysus or Bacchus
3. HOW THE WORLD AND MANKIND WERE CREATED
4. THE EARLIEST HEROES
Prometheus and Io
Europa
The Cyclops Polyphemus
Flower-Myths：Narcissus, Hyacinth, Adonis
PART TWO：Stories of Love and Adventure
5. CUPID AND PSYCHE
6. EIGHT BRIEF TALES OF LOVERS
Orpheus and Eurydice
Ceyx and Alcyone
Pygmalion and Galatea
Baucis and Philemon
Endymion
Daphne
Alpheus and Arethusa
7. THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE
8. FOUR GREAT ADVENTURES
Phaethon
Pegasus and Bellerophon
Otus and Ephialtes
Daedalus
PART THREE：The Great Heroes before the Trojan War
9. PERSEUS
10. THESEUS
11. HERCULES
12. ATALANTA
PART FOUR：The Heroes of the Trojan War
13. THE TROJAN WAR
Prologue：The Judgment of Paris
The Trojan War
14. THE FALL OF TROY
15. THE ADVENTURES OF ODYSSEUS
16. THE ADVENTURES OF AENEAS
Part One：From Troy to Italy
Part Two：The Descent into the Lower World
Part Three：The War in Italy
PART FIVE：The Great Families of Mythology
17. THE HOUSE OF ATREUS
Tantalus and Niobe
Agamemnon and His Children
Iphigenia among the Taurians
18. THE ROYAL HOUSE OF THEBES
Cadmus and His Children
Oedipus
Antigone
The Seven against Thebes
19. THE ROYAL HOUSE OF ATHENS
Cecrops
Procne and Philomela
Procris and Cephalus
Orithyia and Boreas
Creusa and Ion
PART SIX：The Less Important Myths
20. MIDAS—AND OTHERS
Midas
Aesculapius
The Danaids
Glaucus and Scylla
Erysichthon
Pomona and Vertumnus
21. BRIEF MYTHS ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY
PART SEVEN：The Mythology of the Norsemen Introduction to Norse Mytholgy
22. THE STORIES OF SIGNY AND OF SIGURD
23. THE NORSE GODS
The Creation
The Norse Wisdom
GENEALOGICAL TABLES
INDEX


插圖 Illustrations
Greece first discovered mankind Forntispiece
The Greek, unlike the Egyptians, made their gods in their own image 15
Olympus 26
The rape of Persephone (Proserpine) 51
Pandora lifted the lid and out flew plagues and sorrows for mankind 71
The rape of Europa 80
Psyche gazed at the sleeping Cupid 97
Pygmalion and Galatea 109
The Harpies and the Argonauts 121
Bellerophon on Pegasus killing the Chimaera 136
Perseus holding Medusa’s head 147
The Minotaur in the Labyrinth 153
Hercules carrying Cerberus 166
Atalanta and the golden apples 176
The judgment of Paris 180
The wooden horse 197
Odysseus and circe 213
Aeneas and the Sibyl enter Charon’s boat 229
Clytemnestra and Orestes 247
Oedipus and the Sphinx 258
Athena appears to Creusa and Ion 277
Glaucus and Scylla 283
Sigurd riding through the fire to Brynhild 305

Foreword V
INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
The Mythology of the Greeks
The Greek and Roman Writers of Mythology
PART ONE：The Gods, the Creation, and the Earliest Heroes
1. THE GODS
The Titans and the Twelve Great Olympians
The Lesser Gods of Olympus
The Gods of the Waters
The Underworld
The Roman Gods
2. THE Two GREAT GODS OF EARTH
Demeter (Ceres)
Dionysus or Bacchus
3. HOW THE WORLD AND MANKIND WERE CREATED
4. THE EARLIEST HEROES
Prometheus and Io
Europa
The Cyclops Polyphemus
Flower-M...