The Penguin Book of Classical MythsThe figures and events of classical myths underpin our culture and the constellations named after them fill the night sky. Whether it’s the raging Minotaur trapped in the Cretan labyrinth or the twelve labours of Hercules, Aphrodite’s birth from the waves or Zeus visiting Danae as a shower of gold, the mythology of Greece and Rome is full of unforgettable stories. All the stories of the Greek tragedies – Oedipus, Medea, Antigone – are there; all the events of the Trojan wars and of Odysseus and Aeneas’ epic journeys; the founding of Athens and of Rome... |
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... son or sons. (Only one mortal woman, for instance, bore a daughter to Zeus: Leda, the mother by Zeus of Helen, who naturally enough grew up to be the most beautiful woman in the world.) These sons would confer honour on their mother and ...
... sons of gloomy Night have their home, Sleep and Death, those terrible gods. The shining sun never looks upon them with his rays when he goes up to heaven, nor coming down again from heaven. Sleep roams the earth and the broad back of ...
... sons, who hated his lusty father' (137–8). Next Gaia bore two sets of monsters, the three Hundredhanders, grotesque giants with fifty heads and a hundred arms springing from their shoulders, and the mighty one-eyed Cyclopes, who would ...
... son, Pallas, mated with Styx, a daughter of Ocean and the chief river of the Underworld, and she bore him a daughter, Nike (Victory), and three sons, Zelos (Aspiration), Kratos (Power) and Bia (Might). All four of these children would ...
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Contents
The Gods | |
The First Humans | |
The Quest for the Golden Fleece | |
Theseus Athens and Crete | |
The Theban Saga | |
The Trojan | |
Odysseus and His Odyssey | |
The House of Pelops | |
Dangerous Women | |
Aeneas and the Destiny of Rome | |
The Foundation of Rome | |