Gods and Mortals

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Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers

Sarah Iles Johnston(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 7. Februar 2023

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Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Gods, Mortals and the Myths They Inhabit
The Gods
1. Earth and Her Children
2. The Titans
3. The Young Gods Rebel
4. Zeus Becomes King
5. Persephone's Story
6. Demeter's Wanderings
7. Demeter and Persephone
8. Athena, Artemis and Apollo Are Born
9. Apollo Establishes His Oracle
10. Hephaestus's Story
11. Hermes the Cattle Thief
12. Dionysus Is Born, and Dies, and Is Born Again
13. Dionysus and the Pirates
14. Aphrodite Experiences Desire
Gods and Mortals
15. Prometheus, Epimetheus and the First Men
16. Prometheus Steals Fire
17. Pandora's Gifts
18. Lycaon Tests Zeus
19. The Flood
20. Io's Story
21. Phaethon Drives the Chariot of the Sun
22. Europa and the Bull
23. Callisto's Story
24. Daphne and Apollo
25. Artemis and Actaeon
26. Niobe and Leto
27. Arachne and Athena
28. Baucis and Philemon
29. Hyrieus and His Ox
30. Orion
31. Erigone and Icarius
32. Apollo and Hyacinthus
33. Leda and Her Children
34. Melampus and the Daughters of Proetus
35. Pan and Syrinx
36. Echo and Narcissus
37. The Greed of Midas
38. Tantalus Tests the Gods and Pelops Makes a Bad Decision
39. Tityus and Leto
40. Ixion, the Cloud and the Centaurs
41. The Deaths of Sisyphus
42. The Daughters of Danaus and the Sons of Egyptus
43. Asclepius Challenges Death
44. Minos and Polyidus
45. Minos and Scylla
46. Pasiphaë and the Bull
47. Daedalus and Icarus
48. Procne and Philomela
49. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
50. Pygmalion and the Statue
51. Myrrha and Adonis
Heroes
Perseus
52. Danaë and the Shower of Gold
53. Polydectes and the Gorgon's Head
54. Some Weird Nymphs
55. Beheading Medusa
56. Andromeda
Bellerophon
57. Bellerophon and Pegasus
58. Stheneboea
59. The Chimera
60. The End of Bellerophon
Cadmus
61. Cadmus and the Serpent's Teeth
62. Ino and Athamas
63. The Return of Dionysus
Heracles
64. The Birth of Heracles
65. Heracles Murders His Family
66. The Nemean Lion and the Lernaean Hydra
67. The Ceryneian Hind and the Erymanthian Boar
68. The Stables of Augeas and the Stymphalian Birds
69. The Cretan Bull and the Mares of Diomedes
70. Alcestis
71. Hippolyta's Belt and the Cattle of Geryon
72. Cacus and the Apples of the Hesperides
73. A Journey to the Underworld
74. Slave to Omphale
75. A New Wife and New Problems
Atalanta
76. Atalanta
Orpheus
77. A Marvelous Musician
78. Orpheus the Argonaut
79. Eurydice
80. The Death of Orpheus
Jason
81. Chiron and Jason
82. Losing a Sandal and Reclaiming the Kingdom
83. The Lemnian Women
84. Heracles and Hylas
85. The Harpies and the Clashing Rocks
86. Colchis
87. The Tasks
88. Claiming the Fleece
89. Circe and the Phaeacians
90. Home Again
91. Medea in Corinth
Meleager
92. The Calydonian Boar
Theseus
93. Athena's City
94. Theseus Travels to Athens
95. A Wicked Stepmother
96. A Voyage to Crete
97. The Princess and the Minotaur
98. Theseus Becomes King
99. A Father's Curse
100. New Brides
101. The Death of Theseus
Oedipus
102. The Birth of Oedipus
103. A Troubling Oracle
104. A Riddle Contest
105. Revelations
106. The Theban War
107. Antigone
The Trojan War
108. Peleus and Thetis
109. The Judgment of Paris
110. A Promise Comes Due
111. Iphigenia
112. Protesilaus and Laodamia
113. Agamemnon and Achilles
114. Hera Deceives Zeus
115. Achilles and Patroclus
116. Achilles and Hector
117. Achilles and Priam
118. The Deaths of Achilles and Ajax
119. Neoptolemus and Philoctetes
120. The Horse
121. The Trojan Women
The Returns
122. Atreus and Thyestes
123. Agamemnon's Return
124. Orestes's Return366
125. A Trial in Athens
126. Helen and Menelaus
127. Neoptolemus's Return
Odysseus
128. Odysseus and Telemachus
129. Nestor and Menelaus
130. Calypso
131. The Princess and the Castaway
132. A Ghastly Host
133. Circe
134. Visiting the Dead
135. Monstrous Females
136. The Cattle of the Sun
137. Home at Last
138. Penelope and Odysseus
139. A Contest and a Battle
140. New Lives
Ancient Sources for the Myths
Table of Sources
Notes on Sources for the Myths
The Characters of Greek Myths
Index of Characters
Acknowledgments

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