There is also a Persian translation of this book available on the site entitled سیری در اساطیر یونان و رم translated by عبدالحسین شریفیان.
Author(s): Edith Hamilton
Publisher: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 514
City: New York
Tags: Mythology
Contents
Foreword
Introduction to Classical Mythology
The Mythology of the Greeks
The Greek and Roman Writers of Mythology
Part 1 The Gods, the Creation, and the Earliest Heroes
1 The Gods
The Titans and the Twelve Great Olympians
The Lesser Gods of Olympus
The Gods of the Waters
The Underworld
The Lesser Gods of Earth
The Roman Gods
2 The Two Great Gods of Earth
Demeter (Ceres)
Dionysus or Bacchus
3 How the World and Mankind Were Created
4 The Earliest Heroes
Prometheus and Io
Europa
The Cyclops Polyphemus
Flower-Myths: Narcissus, Hyacinth, Adonis
Part 2 Stories of Love and Adventure
I Cupid and Psyche
2 Eight Brief Tales of Lovers
Pyramus and Thisbe
Orpheus and Eurydice
Ceyx and Alcyone
Pygmalion and Galatea
Baucis and Philemon
Endymion
Daphne
Alpheus and Arethusa
3 The Quest of the Golden Fleece
4 Four Great Adventures
Phaëthon
Pegasus and Bellerophon
Otus and Ephialtes
Daedalus
Part 3 The Great Heroes before the Trojan War
1 Perseus
2 Theseus
3 Hercules
4 Atalanta
Part 4 The Heroes of the Trojan War
1 The Trojan War
Prologue: The Judgment of Paris
The Trojan War
2 The Fall of Troy
3 The Adventures of Odysseus
4 The Adventures of Aeneas
Part 1: From Troy to Italy
Part 2: The Descent into the Lower World
Part 3: The War in Italy
Part 5 The Great Families of Mythology
1 The House of Atreus
Tantalus and Niobe
Agamemnon and His Children
Iphigenia among the Taurians
2 The Royal House of Thebes
Cadmus and His Children
Oedipus
Antigone
The Seven against Thebes
3 The Royal House of Athens
Cecrops
Procne and Philomela
Procris and Cephalus
Orithyia and Boreas
Creüsa and Ion
Part 6 The Less Important Myths
1 Midas — and Others
Midas
Aesculapius
The Danaïds
Glaucus and Scylla
Erysichthon
Pomona and Vertumnus
2 Brief Myths Arranged Alphabetically
Amalthea
Amazons, The
Amymone
Antiope
Arachne
Arion
Aristaeus
Aurora and Tithonus
Biton and Cleobis
Callisto
Chiron
Clytie
Dryope
Epimenides
Ericthonius
Hero and Leander
Ibycus and the Cranes
Leto (Latona)
Linus
Marpessa
Marsyas
Melampus
Merope
Myrmidons, The
Nisus and Scylla
Orion
Pleiades, The
Rhoecus
Salmoneus
Sisyphus
Tyro
Part 7 The Mythology of the Norsemen
Introduction to Norse Mythology
1 The Stories of Signy and of Sigurd
2 The Norse Gods
The Creation
The Norse Wisdom
Geneological Tables
Index
