E. M. Berens
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

From, A Handbook of Mythology, New York 1886
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HOMER

PLATO

ARISTOTLE

THE GREEK OLD TESTAMENT (SEPTUAGINT)

THE NEW TESTAMENT

PLOTINUS

DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE

MAXIMUS CONFESSOR

SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN

CAVAFY

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CONTENTS.   PART I.—MYTHS.

 

FIRST DYNASTY. - ORIGIN OF THE WORLD— URANUS AND GAEA (Coelus and Terra)

 

SECOND DYNASTY. - CRONUS (Saturn), RHEA (Ops)

DIVISION OF THE WORLD, THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN

 

THIRD DYNASTY. - OLYMPIAN DIVINITIES— ZEUS (Jupiter), HERA (Juno), PALLAS-ATHENE (Minerva), THEMIS, HESTIA (Vesta), DEMETER (Ceres), APHRODITE (Venus), HELIOS (Sol), EOS (Aurora), PHOEBUS-APOLLO, HECATE, SELENE (Luna), ARTEMIS (Diana), HEPHAESTUS (Vulcan), POSEIDON (Neptune)

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SEA DIVINITIES— OCEANUS, NEREUS, PROTEUS, TRITON AND THE TRITONS, GLAUCUS, THETIS, THAUMAS, PHORCYS, AND CETO, LEUCOTHEA, THE SIRENS, ARES (Mars), NIKE (Victoria), HERMES (Mercury), DIONYSUS (Bacchus or Liber), AÏDES (Pluto), PLUTUS

 

MINOR DIVINITIES— THE HARPIES, ERINYES, EUMENIDES (Furiae, Dirae), MOIRAE OR FATES (Parcae), NEMESIS

 

NIGHT AND HER CHILDREN— NYX (Nox), THANATOS (Mors) and HYPNUS (Somnus), MORPHEUS, THE GORGONS, GRAEAE, SPHINX, TYCHE (Fortuna) and ANANKE (Necessitas), KER, ATE, MOMUS, EROS (Cupid, Amor) and PSYCHE, HYMEN, IRIS, HEBE (Juventas), GANYMEDES, {v} THE MUSES, PEGASUS, THE HESPERIDES, CHARITES OR GRACES, HORAE (Seasons), THE NYMPHS, THE WINDS, PAN (Faunus), THE SATYRS, PRIAPUS, ASCLEPIAS (Aesculapius)

 

ROMAN DIVINITIES— JANUS, FLORA, ROBIGUS, POMONA, VERTUMNUS, PALES, PICUS, PICUMNUS AND PILUMNUS, SILVANUS, TERMINUS, CONSUS, LIBITINA, LAVERNA, COMUS, CAMENAE, GENII, MANES, PENATES

 

PUBLIC WORSHIP OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND ROMANS—

      TEMPLES, STATUES, ALTARS, PRIESTS, SACRIFICES, ORACLES, SOOTHSAYERS, {vi} AUGURS, FESTIVALS

 

GREEK FESTIVALS— ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES, THESMOPHORIA, DIONYSIA, PANATHENAEA, DAPHNEPHORIA

 

ROMAN FESTIVALS— SATURNALIA, CEREALIA, VESTALIA

 

PART II.—LEGENDS.

      CADMUS, PERSEUS, ION, DAEDALUS AND ICARUS, THE ARGONAUTS, PELOPS, HERACLES, BELLEROPHON, THESEUS, OEDIPUS, THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES, THE EPIGONI, ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE, THE HERACLIDAE, THE SIEGE OF TROY, RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY - HOMEWARD VOYAGE OF ODYSSEUS

 

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