DK - Big Ideas Simply Explained - The Mythology Book.pdf

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INTRODUCTION
ANCIENT GREECE
Gaia first gave birth to her equal, Ouranos
Origin of the universe
Rhea swaddled up a stone and passed it to Kronos to swallow
The birth of Zeus
Zeus in his first youth battered the earthborn Titans
The war of the gods and Titans
No wind beats roughly here, no snow nor rain
Mount Olympus
He bound cunning Prometheus in inescapable fetters
Prometheus helps mankind
Her impulse introduced sorrow and mischief to the lives of men
Pandora’s box
Zeus had many women, both mortal and immortal
The many affairs of Zeus
Mighty Hades who dwells in houses beneath the earth
Hades and the Underworld
He slipped a pomegranate, sweet as honey, into her hand
The abduction of Persephone
The raving ladies streamed out of their homes
The cult of Dionysus
Turning round, he caught a glimpse of his wife and she had to return
below
Orpheus and Eurydice
A bringer of dreams
Hermes’ first day
Athena presents the olive tree, Poseidon the wave
The founding of Athens
I will give infallible counsel to all who seek it
Apollo and the Oracle of Delphi
One loved; the other fled the name of love
Apollo and Daphne
Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor
The Trojan War
This pair of tyrants. They murdered my father
Orestes avenges Agamemnon
Tell me oh muse, the hero’s story
The quest of Odysseus
After the labours had been accomplished, he would be immortal
The labours of Herakles
He had the face of a bull, but the rest of him was human
Theseus and the Minotaur
Disdaining his father’s warnings, the exhilarated Icarus soared ever
higher
Daedalus and Icarus
Watching the Gorgon’s head in the polished shield, he beheaded her
Perseus and Medusa
Hate is a bottomless cup, I will pour and pour
Jason and Medea
Unfortunate Oedipus – of all men, least to be envied!
The fate of Oedipus

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