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Gods and heroes of the Greeks : the library of Apollodorus

Apollodorus (Author), Michael Simpson (Translator, Writer of introduction, Writer of added commentary), Leonard Baskin (Illustrator)
Print Book, English, 1976
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1976
vi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780870232053, 9780870232060, 0870232053, 0870232061
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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
Translated into English from the original Greek. Translation of Vivliothēkē, often formerly believed to be the work of Apollodorus, the Athenian grammarian, but now generally ascribed to a later Apollodorus