The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art

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Item:: Book
Title:: The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art
Author:: Charles Mills Gayley
Illustrator:: Aubrey Beardsley
Printer:: The Athenæum Press, Ginn and Company, Proprietors.
Place of Printing:: Boston
Date of Printing:: 1911
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Donated by:: Kenneth Innes III

Author and Commentators

Charles Mills Gayley (1858-1932). Professor of Classics at the University of California in Berkeley.

The Book

41 pages of introductory matter and 596 pages of explanatory text with illustrations.

PART I MYTHS OF DIVINITIES AND HEROES:
CHAPTER I. GREEK MYTHS OF THE CREATION
CHAPTER II. THE GODS OF HEAVEN
CHAPTER III. THE GODS OF EARTH
CHAPTER IV. THE GODS OF THE UNDERWORLD
CHAPTER V. THE GODS OF THE WATERS
CHAPTER VI. THE ROMAN DIVINITIES
CHAPTER VII. MYTHS OF THE GREAT DIVINITIES OF HEAVEN
CHAPTER VIII. MYTHS OF THE GREAT DIVINITIES OF EARTH
CHAPTER IX. FROM THE EARTH TO THE UNDERWORLD
CHAPTER X. MYTHS OF NEPTUNE, RULER OF THE WATERS
CHAPTER XI. MYTHS OF THE LESSER DIVINITIES OF HEAVEN
CHAPTER XII. MYTHS OF THE LESSER DIVINITIES OF EARTH, ETC.
CHAPTER XIII. MYTHS OF LESSER DIVINITIES OF THE WATERS
CHAPTER XIV. MYTHS OF THE OLDER HEROES: THE HOUSE OF DANAÜS, AND ITS CONNECTIONS
CHAPTER XV. THE FAMILY OF ÆOLUS
CHAPTER XVI. THE FAMILY OF ÆTOLUS AND ITS CONNECTIONS
CHAPTER XVII. THE HOUSE OF MINOS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE HOUSE OF CECROPS AND ERICHTHONIUS
CHAPTER XIX. THE HOUSE OF LABDACUS
CHAPTER XX. MYTHS OF THE YOUNGER HEROES: THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES
CHAPTER XXI. HOUSES CONCERNED IN THE TROJAN WAR
CHAPTER XXII. THE TROJAN WAR
CHAPTER XXIII. THE FALL OF TROY
CHAPTER XXIV. THE WANDERINGS OF ULYSSES
CHAPTER XXV. ADVENTURES OF ÆNEAS
CHAPTER XXVI. THE WAR BETWEEN TROJANS AND LATINS
CHAPTER XXVII. MYTHS OF THE NORSE GODS
CHAPTER XXVIII. MYTHS OF NORSE AND OLD GERMAN HEROES
CHAPTER XXIX. THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG
PART II THE HISTORY OF MYTH
CHAPTER XXX. THE ORIGIN AND ELEMENTS OF MYTH
CHAPTER XXXI. THE DISTRIBUTION OF MYTHS
CHAPTER XXXII. THE PRESERVATION OF MYTHS
COMMENTARY 465
RULES FOR PRONUNCIATION 541
INDEX OF MYTHOLOGICAL SUBJECTS AND SOURCES 543
INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS AND ARTISTS

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Front Cover

Frontispiece & Title

Copyright & Dedication

Preface

Contents

List of Illustrations

Full Page Ilustrations & Introduction

Introduction

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Wedding of Poesidon

Triton Carrying Off a Nymph

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Map of 5th Century B.C. Greece

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Map of Italy

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Rules for Pronunciation

Index of Mythological Subjects

Index

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Index of Modern Artists and Authors

Index

End Papers

Haas Stationery Co

Hera of the Vatican

Venus of Melos

The Greek Underworld

Map of Greece

Farnese Bull

Amphion & Zethus

Cadmus Slaying the Dragon

Forge of Vulcan

Children of Niobe

Niobe & Youngest Daughter

Apollo & Daphne

Actaeon

The Pleaides

Petworth Aphrodite

Death of Adonis

Psyche & Cupid

Eos with Bow

Thisbe

Hermes of Praxiteles

Bearded Dionysus

Rape of Proserpina

Hades & Persephone

Sacrifice to Demeter & Persephone

Demeter, Triptolemus, Persephone

Farewell of Orpheus & Eurydice

Sunrise, Eros Pursuing Cephalus

Narcissus

Perseus Freeing Andromeda

Hercules & Nessus

Wedding of Hercules & Hebe

The Troad & the Hellspont

Achilles Taken from Scyros

Embassy to Achilles

Amazon

CEnone Warning Paris

Laocoon

Orestes & Electra

Geography of Odyssey

Castle of Circe

Flying Mercury

Nike of Brescia

Valkayrie

Race of Inacus

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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art

Author and Commentators

The Book

Contents

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