The Mythology Book

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20 ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE I n the beginning was Chaos, an open chasm of emptiness— infinitely deep, dark, and silent. In his vis ...

ANCIENT GREECE 21 Her sexual attentions had to be entirely and eternally available to him, so their offspring could not be allow ...

22 means “hundred-handed” in Greek. Each was also said to have 50 heads, making them formidable—they, too, were incarcerated by ...

23 many daughters, the Oceanids, who were nymphs of springs, rivers, lakes, and seas. Her younger sister Theia, too, took a brot ...

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26 K ronos, Titan son of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Ouranos, proved every bit as possessive a patriarch as his fathe ...

27 Ouranos, for help. Together they hatched a devious plan to save their daughter’s next child. Switched with a stone Rhea follo ...

28 be inevitable. Kronos could not afford to let a potential usurper live. If he became aware of Zeus’s existence, he would view ...

29 Zeus and Hera become man and wife in a scene from a decorative marble-and-limestone frieze that was part of a temple in Selin ...

30 Of the second generation of gods, several joined the Dodekatheon, and were powerful deities in their own right. The gods Apol ...

31 Infidelity, too, was a major theme in all Greek myths—not just in the affairs (and assaults) committed by Zeus that riled the ...

32 Z eus slipped easily into a position of authority over his brothers and sisters: though the youngest, he had been in the worl ...

ANCIENT GREECE 33 The Fall of the Titans by Giulio Romano (1532–1535). Depicting the war of the Titans, this continuous fresco c ...

3434 NO WIND BEATS ROUGHLY HERE, NO SNOW NOR RAIN MOUNT OLYMPUS O riginally, the dwellings of the ancient Greek deities were not ...

ANCIENT GREECE 35 See also: The Olympian gods 24–31 ■ The war of the gods and Titans 32–33 ■ Cupid and Psyche 112–13 ■ Pangu and ...

3636 Z eus’s victory in the war with the Titans had been hard won but decisive. He and his brothers held unchallenged sway over ...

ANCIENT GREECE 37 Zeus and his subjects. Despite this, all sources regard him as a central part of the conflict. Self-confident ...

38 PROMETHEUS HELPS MANKIND pick up stones and throw them backward over their heads. They did so and wherever Deukalion’s stones ...