The Mythology Book

ANCIENT GREECE 59 Delphi’s Temple of Apollo dates from the 4th century bce. According to Pausanias, previous temples on the site ...

60 A pollo was among the greatest of the gods, his prestige unimpeachable, his person radiant with all the splendor of the sun. ...

ANCIENT GREECE 61 Daphne recoils from Apollo in this mid-18th-century painting by Italian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Eros ...

62 LIFE AND DEATH ARE BALANCED ON THE EDGE OF A RAZOR THE TROJAN WAR T he Trojan War inspired some of the greatest ancient Greek ...

63 The giant wooden horse, filled with Greek warriors, is brought inside the walls of the city in The Procession of the Trojan H ...

64 A gamemnon, King of Argos, was commander of the Greek forces during the legendary Trojan War. His family history was steeped ...

ANCIENT GREECE 65 Orestes slays his mother to avenge his father’s death in this painting by Bernardino Mei (1655). Clytemnestra’ ...

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68 O ne of several Greek heroes who fought at Troy, as related in Homer’s first epic poem, the Iliad, Odysseus stands out by vir ...

69 Odysseus. Shipwrecked and cast ashore alone on the coast of Phaecia (perhaps Corfu), Odysseus was discovered by Nausicaa, the ...

70 great quantities of food, wine, and other supplies stored within it. They began to help themselves, only to be interrupted wh ...

71 them. Even a seeming stroke of luck—when King Aeolus gave Odysseus the gift of a leather bag in which all the winds of the wo ...

72 AFTER THE LABORS HAD BEEN ACCOMPLISHED, HE WOULD BE IMMORTAL THE LABORS OF HERAKLES A lthough he would grow up to become a he ...

73 See also: The Olympian gods 24–31 ■ Prometheus helps mankind 36–39 ■ The many affairs of Zeus 42–47 ■ The madness of Dionysus ...

74 new head from springing up. He finally succeeded in slaying the Hydra by cutting off and burying its final, immortal head. He ...

75 to be uncontrollable, and Herakles’s companion Abderus had previously been eaten by them. Herakles killed the king to avenge ...

76 HE HAD THE FACE OF A BULL, BUT THE REST OF HIM WAS HUMAN THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR T he island of Crete was at the heart of th ...

77 Theseus defeats the Minotaur in a scene on a kylix (drinking cup) from ca.420 bce. Decorated with Theseus’s heroic deeds, the ...

7878 DISDAINING HIS FATHER’S WARNINGS, THE EXHILARATED ICARUS SOARED EVER HIGHER DAEDALUS AND ICARUS D aedalus was an inventor a ...