Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers

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Contents
List of Illustrations
Gods, Mortals and the Myths They Inhabit
The Gods
	1. Earth and Her Children
	2. The Titans
	3. The Young Gods Rebel
	4. Zeus Becomes King
	5. Persephone’s Story
	6. Demeter’s Wanderings
	7. Demeter and Persephone
	8. Athena, Artemis and Apollo Are Born
	9. Apollo Establishes His Oracle
	10. Hephaestus’s Story
	11. Hermes the Cattle Thief
	12. Dionysus Is Born, and Dies, and Is Born Again
	13. Dionysus and the Pirates
	14. Aphrodite Experiences Desire
Gods and Mortals
	15. Prometheus, Epimetheus and the First Men
	16. Prometheus Steals Fire
	17. Pandora’s Gifts
	18. Lycaon Tests Zeus
	19. The Flood
	20. Io’s Story
	21. Phaethon Drives the Chariot of the Sun
	22. Europa and the Bull
	23. Callisto’s Story
	24. Daphne and Apollo
	25. Artemis and Actaeon
	26. Niobe and Leto
	27. Arachne and Athena
	28. Baucis and Philemon
	29. Hyrieus and His Ox
	30. Orion
	31. Erigone and Icarius
	32. Apollo and Hyacinthus
	33. Leda and Her Children
	34. Melampus and the Daughters of Proetus
	35. Pan and Syrinx
	36. Echo and Narcissus
	37. The Greed of Midas
	38. Tantalus Tests the Gods and Pelops Makes a Bad Decision
	39. Tityus and Leto
	40. Ixion, the Cloud and the Centaurs
	41. The Deaths of Sisyphus
	42. The Daughters of Danaus and the Sons of Egyptus
	43. Asclepius Challenges Death
	44. Minos and Polyidus
	45. Minos and Scylla
	46. Pasiphaë and the Bull
	47. Daedalus and Icarus
	48. Procne and Philomela
	49. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
	50. Pygmalion and the Statue
	51. Myrrha and Adonis
Heroes
	Perseus
		52. Danaë and the Shower of Gold
		53. Polydectes and the Gorgon’s Head
		54. Some Weird Nymphs
		55. Beheading Medusa
		56. Andromeda
	Bellerophon
		57. Bellerophon and Pegasus
		58. Stheneboea
		59. The Chimera
		60. The End of Bellerophon
	Cadmus
		61. Cadmus and the Serpent’s Teeth
		62. Ino and Athamas
		63. The Return of Dionysus
	Heracles
		64. The Birth of Heracles
		65. Heracles Murders His Family
		66. The Nemean Lion and the Lernaean Hydra
		67. The Ceryneian Hind and the Erymanthian Boar
		68. The Stables of Augeas and the Stymphalian Birds
		69. The Cretan Bull and the Mares of Diomedes
		70. Alcestis
		71. Hippolyta’s Belt and the Cattle of Geryon
		72. Cacus and the Apples of the Hesperides
		73. A Journey to the Underworld
		74. Slave to Omphale
		75. A New Wife and New Problems
	Atalanta
		76. Atalanta
	Orpheus
		77. A Marvelous Musician
		78. Orpheus the Argonaut
		79. Eurydice
		80. The Death of Orpheus
	Jason
		81. Chiron and Jason
		82. Losing a Sandal and Reclaiming the Kingdom
		83. The Lemnian Women
		84. Heracles and Hylas
		85. The Harpies and the Clashing Rocks
		86. Colchis
		87. The Tasks
		88. Claiming the Fleece
		89. Circe and the Phaeacians
		90. Home Again
		91. Medea in Corinth
	Meleager
		92. The Calydonian Boar
	Theseus
		93. Athena’s City
		94. Theseus Travels to Athens
		95. A Wicked Stepmother
		96. A Voyage to Crete
		97. The Princess and the Minotaur
		98. Theseus Becomes King
		99. A Father’s Curse
		100. New Brides
		101. The Death of Theseus
	Oedipus
		102. The Birth of Oedipus
		103. A Troubling Oracle
		104. A Riddle Contest
		105. Revelations
		106. The Theban War
		107. Antigone
The Trojan War
	108. Peleus and Thetis
	109. The Judgment of Paris
	110. A Promise Comes Due
	111. Iphigenia
	112. Protesilaus and Laodamia
	113. Agamemnon and Achilles
	114. Hera Deceives Zeus
	115. Achilles and Patroclus
	116. Achilles and Hector
	117. Achilles and Priam
	118. The Deaths of Achilles and Ajax
	119. Neoptolemus and Philoctetes
	120. The Horse
	121. The Trojan Women
The Returns
	122. Atreus and Thyestes
	123. Agamemnon’s Return
	124. Orestes’s Return366
	125. A Trial in Athens
	126. Helen and Menelaus
	127. Neoptolemus’s Return
	Odysseus
		128. Odysseus and Telemachus
		129. Nestor and Menelaus
		130. Calypso
		131. The Princess and the Castaway
		132. A Ghastly Host
		133. Circe
		134. Visiting the Dead
		135. Monstrous Females
		136. The Cattle of the Sun
		137. Home at Last
		138. Penelope and Odysseus
		139. A Contest and a Battle
		140. New Lives
Ancient Sources for the Myths
Table of Sources
Notes on Sources for the Myths
The Characters of Greek Myths
Index of Characters
Acknowledgments