MythologySince its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a perennial bestseller in its various available formats: hardcover, trade paperback, and mass market paperback. Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends that are the keystone of Western culture -- the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. This new Back Bay trade paperback edition of Mythology replaces the Meridian edition formerly available from the Penguin Group. In August 1998 a new mass market paperback edition of Mythology published by Warner Books will replace the Mentor/Dutton Signet mass market edition formerly available from the Penguin Group. |
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Page 38
... Poseidon's wife , AMPHITRITE , was another . TRITON was the trumpeter of the Sea . His trumpet was a great shell . He was the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite . PROTEUS was sometimes said to be Poseidon's son , some- times his attendant ...
... Poseidon's wife , AMPHITRITE , was another . TRITON was the trumpeter of the Sea . His trumpet was a great shell . He was the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite . PROTEUS was sometimes said to be Poseidon's son , some- times his attendant ...
Page 138
... Poseidon came begging him to spare them and promising to keep them in order . Zeus agreed and Poseidon was as good as his word . The twins stopped warring against heaven and Poseidon felt pleased with himself , but the fact was that the ...
... Poseidon came begging him to spare them and promising to keep them in order . Zeus agreed and Poseidon was as good as his word . The twins stopped warring against heaven and Poseidon felt pleased with himself , but the fact was that the ...
Page 269
... Poseidon , too , wanted the city , and to show how great a benefactor he could be , he struck open the rock of the Acropolis with his trident so that salt water leaped forth from the cleft and subsided into a deep well . But Athena did ...
... Poseidon , too , wanted the city , and to show how great a benefactor he could be , he struck open the rock of the Acropolis with his trident so that salt water leaped forth from the cleft and subsided into a deep well . But Athena did ...
Contents
FOREWORD V | 13 |
The Lesser Gods of Earth | 40 |
THE TWO GREAT GODS OF EARTH | 47 |
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