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The Greek myths

The Greek myths
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ISBN 9781780877488
Name Waterfield, Robin, 1952-
Title The Greek myths : stories of the Greek gods and heroes vividly retold Robin Waterfield and Kathryn Waterfield.
Published London : Quercus, 2012
Description 319 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Hope For Humankind -- The Population of the Earth -- 2.The Ascent Of The Olympian Gods -- In the Beginning -- War against the Titans -- War against the Giants -- Zeus and His Brothers -- 3.The Gods Of Olympus -- Zeus the King -- Hera -- Hestia -- Demeter -- Aphrodite -- Ares -- Hephaestus -- Athena -- Apollo -- Artemis -- Hermes -- Dionysus -- 4.The Age Of Heroes -- The Flood -- The Line of Deucalion -- The Argonauts and the Golden Fleece -- The Calydonian Boar Hunt -- Io and the Danaids -- Perseus and the Gorgon -- Bellerophon -- 5.Thebes In The Age Of Heroes -- Cadmus, Europa, and the Foundation of Thebes -- Oedipus -- The Seven against Thebes -- 6.Mycenae In The Age Of Heroes -- The Curse of the House of Atreus -- Atreus and Thyestes -- The End of the Atreid Curse -- 7.Athens In The Age Of Heroes -- The First Athenian Kings -- The Labours of Theseus -- Theseus and the Minotaur -- King Theseus -- 8.Heracles -- The Birth of Heracles --
Contents note continued: The Twelve Labours of Heracles -- Heracles the King-Maker -- Heracles Becomes a God -- 9.The Trojan War -- The Marriage of Peleus and Thetis -- The Judgement of Paris -- The Abduction of Helen -- The Greeks Prepare for War -- The Greek Landing -- Achilles Withdraws -- Agamemnon's Dream -- Menelaus and Paris -- Diomedes' Day of Glory -- Hector Triumphant -- Envoys and Spies -- The Assault on the Ships -- The Deception of Zeus -- The Death of Patroclus -- The Return of Achilles -- The Death of Hector -- Two Funerals -- The Death of Achilles -- The Wooden Horse -- The Fall of Troy -- 10.Odysseus' Return -- Trouble on Ithaca -- Telemachus' Journey -- Odysseus on Scheria -- The Cyclops Polyphemus -- Aeolus, the Laestrygonians, and Circe -- The Underworld -- Dangers at Sea -- The Cattle of the Sun -- Odysseus Reaches Ithaca -- At the Swineherd's Hut -- In the Palace -- Penelope Meets the Beggar -- Vengeance -- Reunion -- 11.The End Of Hope -- Pandora.
Summary The myths told by the Greeks are as important as their history for our understanding of what they believed, thought and felt, and of what they expressed in writing and visual art. Mythology was inextricably interwoven with the entire fabric of their public and private lives.
Subjects Folktales -- Greece
Gods, Greek
Greece
Added Names Waterfield, Kathryn
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