The Mythology Book

ANCIENT GREECE 39 Prometheus was punished by the gods for giving humans fire. He was chained to Mount Caucasus to endure constan ...

40 HER IMPULSE INTRODUCED SORROW AND MISCHIEF TO THE LIVES OF MEN PANDORA’S BOX I n Hesiod’s account of humanity’s mythic origin ...

41 Pandora, as depicted by the British Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882). She is holding the infamous box ...

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44 THE MANY AFFAIRS OF ZEUS T he sexual adventures of Zeus, the king of the gods, made up a significant strand of ancient Greek ...

ANCIENT GREECE 45 expression helpless and its feathers ruffled up as if chilled and battered by the wind-blown hail. Hera could ...

46 THE MANY AFFAIRS OF ZEUS was betrothed to Amphitryon, the son of a Theban general. Zeus assumed his guise to approach Alcmene ...

ANCIENT GREECE 47 touch from his kerykeion, or staff. As the giant lay there dead, Hermes collected up his hundred eyes and set ...

48 MIGHTY HADES WHO DWELLS IN HOUSES BENEATH THE EARTH HADES AND THE UNDERWORLD W hile Zeus ruled over the skies and Poseidon ov ...

49 See also: The war of the gods and the Titans 26–27 ■ The abduction of Persephone 50–51 ■ The quest of Odysseus 64–69 ■ The Si ...

50 HE SLIPPED A POMEGRANATE, SWEET AS HONEY, INTO HER HAND THE ABDUCTION OF PERSEPHONE O ne of classical Greece’s Homeric Hymns ...

51 See also: The Olympian gods 24–31 ■ Hades and the Underworld 48–49 ■ Cupid and Psyche 112–13 ANCIENT GREECE Persephone strugg ...

52 See also: The Olympian gods 24–31 ■ The many affairs of Zeus 42–47 ■ Vesta and Priapus 108–09 ■ A complex god 164 D ionysus, ...

53 See also: Hades and the Underworld 48–49 ■ The abduction of Persephone 50 –51 ■ The descent of Inanna 182–87 ■ Osiris and the ...

54 H ermes, generally described as the “messenger of the gods,” was that and much more. Famously, he was able to flit from one p ...

ANCIENT GREECE 55 See also: The war of the gods and Titans 32–33 ■ The many affairs of Zeus 42–47 ■ The quest of Odysseus 66–71 ...

56 ATHENA PRESENTS THE OLIVE TREE, POSEIDON THE WAVE THE FOUNDING OF ATHENS T he Homeric Hymn to Athena begins with the words, “ ...

ANCIENT GREECE 57 Athena and Poseidon’s contest is depicted on an amphora created by the Amasis Painter, ca.540 bce. The signatu ...

58 T he Temple of Apollo at Delphi, on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, in central Greece, was the site of the most important orac ...