The Library of Greek MythologyA new translation of an important text for Greek mythology used as a source book by classicists from antiquity to Robert Graves, The Library of Greek Mythology is a complete summary of early Greek myth, telling the story of each of the great families of heroic mythology, and the various adventures associated with the main heroes and heroines, from Jason and Perseus to Heracles and Helen of Troy. Using the ancient system of detailed histories of the great families, it contains invaluable genealogical diagrams for maximum clarity. |
Contents
GENEALOGICAL TABLES | 9 |
Genealogical Tables | 10 |
BOOK I | 27 |
SOME INTERPOLATIONS AND AN UNRELIABLE PASSAGE FROM THE EPITOME | 171 |
EXPLANATORY NOTES | 177 |
THE TWELVE GODS | 262 |
REFERENCES TO ANIMALS AND TRANSFORMATIONS | 267 |
INDEX OF NAMES | 271 |
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according Acheloos Achilles Acousilaos Acrisios Admetos Adrastos Aesch Agamemnon Agenor Aias Aigeus Alcmaion Amphiaraos Amphitryon Aphrodite Apollo Apollodorus Arcadia Argive Argonauts Argos arrived Artemis Atalante Athene Atreus became king birth boar born brother bull Cadmos cattle Centaurs Cheiron Corinth Crete Cycnos Danaos daugh daughter death Demeter Diomedes Dionysos diviner early epic Eurystheus Eurytos father gave genealogies Glaucos gods Greece Greek Hades Helen Hephaistos Hera Heracles Hermes Hesiod Hippolytos Homer hurled Idas intercourse island Jason killed labour land later Library Lycos Lycourgos married Medea Melampous Menelaos Minos murder Mycenae myth mythical mythographers mythology Nauplios Neoptolemos nymph Odysseus Oineus oracle Peirithoos Peleus Pelias Peloponnese Pelops Perseus Pherecydes Phineus Pind Polyneices Poseidon Procl Proitos Prometheus sacrifice sailed sent ships snake sons sources story suitors Teiresias Theban Thebes Theog Theseus Thetis throne Thyestes took tradition Trojan Troy Tydeus Tyndareus wife Zeus