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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Apollodorus. Gods and heroes of the Greeks. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1976 (OCoLC)619481357 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Apollodorus.; Michael Simpson; Leonard Baskin |
ISBN: | 0870232053 9780870232053 0870232061 9780870232060 |
OCLC Number: | 2020087 |
Notes: | Translation of Vivliothēkē, often formerly believed to be the work of Apollodorus, the Athenian grammarian, but now generally ascribed to a later Apollodorus. |
Description: | vi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Theogony, the rape of Persephone, the battle of the gods and giants -- Prometheus, Deucalion, and Pyrrha and their children, the children and grandchildren of Aeolus -- Jason, the Argonauts, Medea and the Golden Fleece -- The family of Inachus, including Io, Bellerophon, and Perseus -- Heracles and the sons of Heracles -- The family of Agenor: Europa, Cadmus, and Minos; Cadmus' founding of Thebes; Oedipus; the seven against Thebes; the Epigoni -- The family of Pelasgus, including Lycaon, Callisto, and Arcas; Atalanta; the family of Atlas, including Hermes; Asclepius; the birth of Helen; Castor and Pollux; Helen's marriage with Menelaus; Dardanus and the Trojan line; the founding of Troy; Priam and his children; the family of Asopus, including Aeacus, Peleus, and Telamon, and Achilles and Ajax -- The kings of Athens -- Theseus -- Pelops' marriage with Hippodamia; his sons, Atreus and Thyestes; Thyestes' banquet; Aegisthus, son of Thyestes; Agamemnon and Menelaus, sons of Atreus, and their marriages with Clytemnestra and Helen -- The Trojan War -- The returns, including Agamemnon's death and the return of Menelaus -- The return and death of Odysseus. |
Other Titles: | Bibliotheca. |
Responsibility: | translated with introd. and notes by Michael Simpson ; drawings by Leonard Baskin. |
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