Mythology
By: Edith Hamilton
Contributors: Wormell, Christopher, ill
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Co.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780316223348
Copyright date: 1969
Subjects: Classical Mythology; Mythology
Description: This is a collection of Greek and Roman myths from various classical sources arranged in sections on the gods and early heroes, love and adventure stories, heroes before and during the Trojan War, and lesser myths.  It includes a brief section on Norse mythology.

Greek, Roman, and Norse myths come to life.
Notes: Includes index.

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1040 Lexile.

Accelerated Reader AR Upper Grades 8.2 20.0 quiz: 8663

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Table of contents: title: Introduction to classical mythology - The mythology of the Greeks - The Greek and Roman writers of mythology - The gods, the creation, and the earliest heroes - The gods - The Titans and the twelve great Olympians - The lesser gods of Olympus - The gods of the waters - The underworld - The lesser gods of earth - The Roman gods - The two great gods of earth - Demeter (Ceres) - Dionysus or Bacchus - How the world and mankind were created - The earliest heroes - Prometheus and Io - Europa - The Cyclops Polyphemus - Flower-myths : Narcissus, Hyancinth, Adonis - Stories of love and adventure - Cupid and Psyche - Eight brief tales of lovers - Pyramus and Thisbe - Orpheus and Eurydice - Ceyx and Alcyone - Pygmalion and Galatea - Baucis and Philemon - Endymion - Daphne - Alpheus and Arethusa - The Quest of the Golden Fleece - Four great adventures - Phaëthon - Pegasus and Bellerophon - Otus and Ephialtes - Daedalus - The great heroes before the Trojan War - Perseus - Theseus - Hercules - Atalanta - The heroes of the Trojan War - The Trojan War - Prologue : the judgment of Paris - The Trojan War - The Fall of Troy - The adventures of Odysseus - The adventures of Aeneas - Pt. 1, From Troy to Italy - Pt. 2, The descent into the Lower World - Pt. 3, The war in Italy - The great families of mythology - The House of Atreus - Tantalus and Niobe - Agamemnon and his children - Iphigenia among the Taurians - The Royal House of Thebes - Cadmus and his children - Oedipus - Antigone - The seven against Thebes - The Royal House of Athens - Cecrops - Procne and Philomela - Procris and Cephalus - Orithyia and Boreas - Creüsa and Ion - The less important myths - Midas; title: and others - Aesculapius - The Danaïds - Glaucus and Scylla - Erysichthon - Pomona and Vertumnus - Brief myths arranged alphabetically - The mythology of the Norsemen - Introduction to Norse mythology - The stories of Signy and Sigurd - The Norse gods - The creation - The Norse wisdom.