The Greek Myths: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Robert Graves, classicist, poet, and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience And, in the two volumes of The Greek Myths, he demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek Mythology is “no more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons.” His work covers, in nearly two hundred sections, the creation myths; the legends of the births and lives of the great Olympians; the Theseus, Oedipus, and Heracles cycles; the Argonaut voyage; the tale of Troy, and much more. All the scattered elements of each myth have been assembled into a harmonious narrative, and many variants are recorded which may help to determine its ritual or historical meaning, Full references to the classical sources, and copious indexes, make the book as valuable to the scholar as to the general reader; and a full commentary on each myth explains and interprets the classical version in the light of today’s archaeological and anthropological knowledge. |
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... and the Peloponnese. Greek was eventually spoken throughout the Aegean and, by the time of Herodotus, one oracle alone spoke a preHellenic language (Herodotus: viii. 134–5). The king acted as the representative of Zeus, or.
... and the Peloponnese. Greek was eventually spoken throughout the Aegean and, by the time of Herodotus, one oracle alone spoke a preHellenic language (Herodotus: viii. 134–5). The king acted as the representative of Zeus, or.
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... Oracle of Colophon identified this Phanes with the transcendent god Iao: Zeus (ram), Spring; Helius (lion), Summer; Hades (snake), Winter; Dionysus (bull), New Year. Night's sceptre passed to Uranus with the advent of patriarchalism. 3 ...
... Oracle of Colophon identified this Phanes with the transcendent god Iao: Zeus (ram), Spring; Helius (lion), Summer; Hades (snake), Winter; Dionysus (bull), New Year. Night's sceptre passed to Uranus with the advent of patriarchalism. 3 ...
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... suggests the site of an oracle (see 20. 2). 10. Pan's sudden shout which terrified the Titans became proverbial and has given the word 'panic' to the English language (see 26. c). 8 The Birth of Athene According to the Pelasgians, the.
... suggests the site of an oracle (see 20. 2). 10. Pan's sudden shout which terrified the Titans became proverbial and has given the word 'panic' to the English language (see 26. c). 8 The Birth of Athene According to the Pelasgians, the.
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... oracle of Mother Earth then declared that this would be a girlchild and that, if Metis conceived again, she would bear a son who was fated to depose Zeus, just as Zeus had deposed Cronus, and Cronus had deposed Uranus. Therefore, having ...
... oracle of Mother Earth then declared that this would be a girlchild and that, if Metis conceived again, she would bear a son who was fated to depose Zeus, just as Zeus had deposed Cronus, and Cronus had deposed Uranus. Therefore, having ...
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... oracle; because they are not his children, but parthenogenous daughters of the Great Goddess Necessity, against whom not even the gods contend, and who is called 'The Strong Fate'.3 d. At Delphi only two Fates are worshipped, those of ...
... oracle; because they are not his children, but parthenogenous daughters of the Great Goddess Necessity, against whom not even the gods contend, and who is called 'The Strong Fate'.3 d. At Delphi only two Fates are worshipped, those of ...
Contents
Minos and His Brothers | |
The Loves of Minos | |
The Children of Pasiphaë | |
Scylla and Nisus | |
Daedalus and Talos | |
Catreus and Althaemenes | |
The Sons of Pandion | |
The Birth of Theseus | |
Artemiss Nature and Deeds | |
Hephaestuss Nature and Deeds | |
Demeters Nature and Deeds | |
Athenes Nature and Deeds | |
Pans Nature and Deeds | |
Dionysuss Nature and Deeds | |
Orpheus | |
Ganymedes 30 Zagreus | |
The Gods of the Underworld | |
Tyche and Nemesis | |
The Children of the | |
The Children of Echidne | |
The Giants Revolt | |
Typhon | |
The Aloeids | |
Deucalions Flood | |
Atlas and Prometheus | |
40 | |
Orion | |
Helius | |
The Sons of Hellen | |
44 | |
Alcyone and Ceyx | |
Tereus | |
Erechtheus and Eumolpus | |
Boreas | |
Alope | |
Asclepius | |
The Oracles | |
The Alphabet | |
The Dactyls | |
The Telchines | |
The Empusae | |
56 | |
Phoroneus | |
Europe and Cadmus | |
Cadmus and Harmonia | |
Belus and the Danaids | |
Lamia | |
Leda | |
Ixion | |
Endymion | |
Pygmalion and Galatea | |
Aeacus | |
Sisyphus | |
Salmoneus and Tyro | |
Alcestis | |
Athamas | |
The Mares of Glaucus | |
Melampus | |
Perseus | |
The Rival Twins | |
Bellerophon | |
Antiope | |
Niobe | |
Caenis and Caeneus | |
Erigone | |
The Calydonian Boar | |
Telamon and Peleus | |
Aristaeus | |
Midas | |
Cleobis and Biton | |
Narcissus | |
Phyllis and Carya | |
Arion | |
The Labours of Theseus | |
Theseus and Medea | |
Theseus in Crete | |
The Federalization of Attica | |
Theseus and the Amazons | |
Phaedra and Hippolytus | |
Lapiths and Centaurs | |
Theseus in Tartarus | |
The Death of Theseus | |
Oedipus | |
The Seven Against Thebes | |
The Epigoni | |
Tantalus | |
Pelops and Oenomaus | |
The Children of Pelops | |
Atreus and Thyestes | |
Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra | |
The Vengeance of Orestes | |
The Trial of Orestes | |
The Pacification of the Erinnyes | |
Iphigeneia Among the Taurians | |
The Reign of Orestes | |
The Birth of Heracles | |
The Youth of Heracles | |
The Daughters of Thespius | |
Erginus | |
The Madness of Heracles | |
The Nemean Lion | |
The Lernaean Hydra | |
The Ceryneian Hind | |
The Erymanthian Boar | |
The Stables of Augeias | |
The Stymphalian Birds | |
The Cretan Bull | |
The Mares of Diomedes | |
Hippolytes Girdle | |
The Cattle of Geryon | |
The Apples of the Hesperides | |
The Capture of Cerberus | |
The Murder of Iphitus | |
Omphale | |
Hesione | |
The Conquest of Elis | |
The Capture of Pylus | |
The Sons of Hippocoön | |
Auge | |
Deianeira | |
Heracles in Trachis | |
Iole | |
The Apotheosis of Heracles | |
The Children of Heracles | |
Linus | |
The Argonauts Assemble | |
The Lemnian Women and King Cyzicus | |
Hylas Amycus and Phineus | |
From the Symplegades to Colchis | |
The Seizure of the Fleece | |
The Murder of Apsyrtus | |
The Argo Returns to Greece | |
The Death of Pelias | |
Medea at Ephyra | |
Medea in Exile | |
The Foundation of Troy | |
Paris and Helen | |
The First Gathering at Aulis | |
The Second Gathering at Aulis | |
Nine Years of | |
The Wrath of Achilles | |
The Death of Achilles | |
The Madness of Ajax | |
The Oracles of Troy | |
The Wooden Horse | |
The Sack of Troy | |
The Returns | |
Odysseuss Wanderings | |
Odysseuss Homecoming | |
Map of the Greek World | |
Map of Sites Mentioned in the Text Index | |
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Common terms and phrases
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