Myths

Of

Greece and Rome

Narrated With Special Reference To

Literature and Art

By

H. A. Guerber

American Book Company

New York

1893

This rare book presents a comprehensive examination of the origins of Greek and Roman mythology. Includes the legendary origins of all the Gods and Goddesses as well as minor deities, daemons and genii. Each entity is examined in detail, providing details as to their supernatural ancestry and their history of interaction with the various other colourful inhabitants of the early mythological world. A fascinating and informative read for those who desire a deeper knowledge of the pagan divinities of the ancient world.

Contents

I: The Beginning of all Things

Myths of Creation - Chaos and Nyx - Erebus, Aether, and Hemera - Creation of Gaea and Uranus - The Egg myth - Mount Olympus and the river Oceanus - The Hyperboreans - The Ethiopians and the Isles of the Blest - Uranus and Gaea - Titans, Cyclopes, and Centimani - The Titans Revolt - Cronus and Rhea - Birth of Jupiter - Jupiter's infancy - Jupiter's supremacy - The giants' war - Death of Typhoeus - Defeat of Enceladus - Jupiter divides his realm - Story of Prometheus - Story of Epimetheus and Pandora - The Four Ages - The Deluge - Story of Deucalion and Pyrrha

II: Jupiter

Jupiter's titles - Jupiter's attendants - Story of Philemon and Baucis - Jupiter kidnaps Europa - Search for Europa -Founding of Thebes - Worship of Jupiter

III: Juno

Juno's marriage - Story of Callisto and Arcas - Juno's attendant - Worship of Juno - Story of Cleobis and Biton

IV: Minerva

Birth of Minerva - Naming of Athens - Story of Arachne - Worship of Minerva

V: Apollo

Story of Coronis - Aesculapius - Admetus and Alcestis - The walls of Troy - Apollo slays Python - Apollo and Hyacinthus - Apollo and Cyparissus - Apollo and Daphne - Cephalus and Procris - Clytie - Apollo and Marsyas - Apollo and Pan - Orpheus and Eurydice - Story of Phaeton - The Heliades - The Nine Muses - Story of Aurora and Tithonus - Worship of Apollo

VI: Diana

Story of Niobe - Diana's evocations - Story of Endymion - Story of Orion - Story of Actaeon

VII: Venus

Venus' birth - Venus and Vulcan - Story of Alectryon - Venus' children - Venus and Adonis - Venus and Anchises - Story of Hero and Leander - Pyramus and Thisbe - Echo and Narcissus - Pygmalion and Galatea - Cupid and Psyche - Psyche forsaken - Psyche's journey to Hades - Berenice's Hair - Worship of Venus

VIII: Mercury

Birth of Mercury - Mercury's theft - Mercury's wand, cap, and shoes - Story of Ic - Argus' watch - Mercury's offices and worship

IX: Mars

Mars' character - Mars' attendants - Story of Otus and Ephialtes - The Areopagus - Mars' children - Romulus and Remus - Quirinus - The Ancile - Worship of Mars

X: Vulcan

Vulcan's Fall - Vulcan's forge - The golden throne - Vulcan's loves

XI: Neptune

Neptune's exile - Story of Hesione - Neptune's contests -Neptune's power - Neptune's wives - Amphitrite - Story of Idas and Marpessa - Neptune's attendants - Proteus

XII: Pluto

Worship of Pluto - Hades - Rivers of Hades - The Judges - The Furies - The Fates - Tartarus - The Danaides - Tantalus - Sisyphus - Salmoneus - Tityus - Ixion - Elysian Fields

XIII: Bacchus

Story of Semele - Birth of Bacchus - Bacchus' attendants - Bacchus and the pirates - The Curse of Gold - Naxos - Bacchus and Ariadne - Story of Pentheus - Worship of Bacchus

XIV: Ceres and Proserpina

Ceres and Proserpina - Pluto kidnaps Prosperina - Ceres' search - Ceres and Triptolemus - Arethusa and Alpheus - Ceres' mourning - The promegranate seeds - Proserpina's return - Worship of Ceres - Story of Erisichthon - Ceres and Stellio

XV: Vesta

Worship of Vesta - Vestal Virgins - Festivals - Lares, Manes, and Panates

XVI: Janus

Janus' two faces - Worship of Janus - Ancient divisions of time

XVII: Somnus and Mors

Cave of sleep - Somnus and Morpheus - Dreams and Nightmares - Story of Ceyx and Halcyone - Mors - Morpheus

XVIII: Aeolus

Aeolus' children - Temple of Aeolus

XIX: Hercules

Juno persecutes Hercules - Hercules' choice - Hercules' madness - Hercules in servitude - Nemean lion - Hydra of Lerna - Stag of Cerynea - Erymanthian boar - Augean stables - Cretan bull - Diomedes' steeds - Hippolyte's girdle - Cattle of Geryones - Hesperian apples - Pygmies - Atlas - Olympian Games - Hercules and Omphale - Hercules and Deianeira - Story of Nessus - Nessus' robe - Deineira's jealousy - Hercules' Death - Worship of Hercules

XX: Perseus

Acrisius and Danae - The shower of gold - Birth of Perseus - Danae at Seriphus - The Gorgons - Perseus' quest - The Graeae - Death of Medusa - Birth of snakes - Atlas petrified - Story of Andromeda - Phineus petrified - Return to Argos

XXI: Theseus

Periphetes - Sinis - Sciron - Cerycon and Procrustes - Medea's draught - Tribute to the Minotaur - Daedalus and Icarus - Talus - Ariadne's clew - Theseus' escape - Ariadne forsaken -Theseus' punishment - Theseus' reign and marriage - Centaurs and Lapithae - Theseus in Hades - Phaedra and Hippolytus - Death of Theseus

XXII: Jason

Jason's Vow - The one sandal - Phryxus and Helle - The golden fleece - The Speaking Oak - The Argo and crew - Story of Hylas - Phineus and the Harpies - The Symplegades - Arrival at Colchis - Medea's aid - The fleece captured - Death of Absyrtus - Pelias dethroned - The magic recipe - Death of Jason

XXIII: The Calydonian Hunt

Birth of Meleager - The Hunters - Meleager slays his uncles - Atalanta's race - The golden fleece - Castor and Pollux

XXIV: Oedipus

Oedipus consults the oracle - Oedipus leaves Corinth - Death of Laius - The Sphinx - The Riddle - Oedipus marries his mother - The plague - Death of Jocasta - Death of Oedipus - Eteocles and Polynices - The seven chiefs before Thebes - Antigone's devotion - Antigone and Haemon

XXV: Bellerophon

Anteia's treachery - The Chimera - Minerva's advice - Pegasus bridled - Chimaera slain - Bellerophon's fall

XXVI: Minor Divinities

Naiades and Oreades - Napaeae and Dryades - Story of Dryope - Satyrs and Pan - Story of Syrinx - Silvan deities - Flora and Zephyrus - Vertumnus and Pomona - Sea deities - Story of Glaucus

XXVII: The Trojan War

Jupiter and Thetis - The apple of discord - Paris and Oenone - Judgment of Paris - Paris' return to Troy - Paris sails for Greece - Helen's suitors - Abduction of Helen - Preparations for war - Ulysses feigns madness - Agamemnon made chief - Achilles' early life - Ulysses discovers Achilles - Sacrifice of Iphigenia - Arrival at Troy - Protesilaus and Laodamia - Chryseis and Brisels - Achilles' wrath - Agamemnon misled - Menelaus and Paris fight - Hector and Andromache - Greeks repelled - Patroclus dons Achilles' armor - Death of Patroclus - Achilles' grief - Achilles' armor - Death of Hector - The gods' decree - Return of Hector's body - Death of Penthesilea - Death of Achilles - Philoctetes' arrows - Death of Paris and Oenone - The Palladium - The wooden horse - Death of Laocoon - Fall of Troy - Return of the Greeks

XXVIII: Adventures of Ulysses

Siege of Ismarus - The Lotus-eaters - Polyphemus and Galatea - Polyphemus' cave - Ulysses blinds Polyphemus - Ulysses' escape - Gift of Aeolus - The Laestrygonians - Circe, the enchantress - Ulysses and Circe - Ulysses visits Cimmeria - The Sirens - Charybdis and Scylla - Cattle of the Sun - Ulysses and Calypso - Nausicaa and Ulysses - The petrified ship - Ulysses' return to Ithaca - Penelope's web - Death of the suitors - Ulysses' last journey

XXIX: Adventures of Aeneas

Aeneas goes to save Priam - Venus appears to Aeneas - Anchises' escape - Creusa's ghost - Arrival in Thrace - Delos and Crete - Aeneas' vision - Calaeno, the Harpy - Rescue of Achemednides - The tempest - Arrival in Libya - Aeneas and Dido - Death of Dido - Funeral Games - Apparition of Anchises - The Cumaean Sibyl - Arrival in Latium - War with the Latins - Story of Camilla - Nisus and Eurylaus - The armor - Aeneas' arrival - Juno's treachery - Aeneas' prowess - Aeneas' wound - Death of Turnus - Aeneas' progeny

XXX: Analysis of Myths

Early theories - Modern theories - Anthropological theory - Philological theory - Uranus - Jupiter - Juno - Argus - Europa - Apollo - Coronis - Daphne - Caphalus and Procris - Orpheus and Eurydice - Phaeton - Endymion - Adonis - Tantalus - Sisyphus - Ixion - Hercules - Iole - Deianeira - Perseus - Theseus - Argonauts - Medea - Giauce - Meleager - Oedipus - Eumenides - Bellerophon - Ulysses - Minerva - Diana, Io, and Circe - Gaea and Rhea - Ceres and Proserpina - Danae and Semele - Oceanus and Neptune - Nereus - Charon - Niobe - Cyclopes - Titans - Prometheus - Vulcan - Vesta - Mercury - Mars - Otus and Ephialtes - Pan, Aeolus, and the Harpies - Underworld Myths - Cerberus and Pluto

Geneaological Table

Index to Poetical Quotations

Glossary and Index

Excerpts

"Diana (Cynthia, Phoebe, Selene, Artemis), the fair twin sister of Apollo, was not only goddess of the moon, but also of the chase. In works of art this goddess is generally represented as a beautiful maiden, clad in a short hunting dress, armed with a bow, a quiver full of arrows at her side, and a crescent on her well poised head."

"Venus (Dione, Aphrodite, Cytherea), the goddess of beauty, love, laughter, and marriage, is said by some mythologists to be the daughter of Jupiter and Dione, goddess of moisture: others report that she sprang from the foam of the sea. The ocean nymphs were the first to discover her, cradled on a great blue wave; and they carried her down into their coral caves, where they tenderly nursed her, and taught her with the utmost care."

Book Format:

Duodecimo, up to 7 - 8" tall. Book is bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine;

Pagination: 428pp;

Condition:

Good + condition. Boards and spine are in good condition with rubbing to boards and shelf wear; corners bumped; top and bottom of spine slightly frayed; reverse side of front has two library stickers; no half title page; page 17/18 has a tear in the text but text is still readable; page 153 has a faded ink spot to page, not affecting the reading of the text; reverse side of rear board has pencil mark; some foxing throughout; no underlining or marginalia present; Binding is tight.

Price: US$85.00

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