Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths (1966) (edit title/settings)

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• Zeus: A cheating husband who married his sister, Zeus sounds pretty creepy. And in some stories, he is. Zeus is King of the Gods, and he is pretty vengeful.
• Zeus: Zeus is the King of Gods. He is in control of rain and ligtening. Zeus is the brother of Poseidon and Hades
• Meleager: Add a description of this character.
• Minos: A greedy King
• Apollo: Sun God
• Demeter: The Earth-goddess responsible for looking over the Earth's crops. A favorite of Zeus
• Atalanta: Girl who was raised by bears in the wild.
• Persephone: Daughter of Zeus and Demeter, Wife of Hades
• Ariadne
• Hippomenes
• Athene: Goddess of wisdom, born in Zeus' skull
• Daedalus
• Medusa: Medusa was cursed by the Gods. She was turned into a monster or hideous creature. Her hair was snakes and if you look directly at her you would turn to stone.
• Poseidon: Lord of the sea, Bother of Zeeus and Hades
• Danae
• Cronos: Titan who was overthrown by the gods. Father of the four major gods Zues, Hera, Hades, and Posidon.
• Aphrodite: Goddes of love and beauty. Was formed by the foam of the sea and Chronos's blood in the ocean.
• Artemis: Goddess of the moon and the hunt.
• Polydectes
• Phaethon
• Aegeus
• Leto
• Althaea
• Thetis
• Andromeda
• Anon
• Epaphus
• Arion
• Hera: The wife of Zeus and Queen of the Gods, often suspicious of Zeus

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• “"Compose yourself Hades' wooing has been a trifle abrupt, perhaps, but after all he is my brother- our brother- and is accounted a good match. Think, sweet Demeter. It is difficult for our daughter to look beyond the family without marrying far beneath her."”

  Zeus

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• Hera: Hera is the ancient Greek queen of heaven, a daughter of Cronus and Rhea and the wife and sister of Zeus.
• Hades: Hades the god ruling the underworld.
• Athens: Athens a city in and the capital of Greece.
• Tartarus: Tartarus is a sunless abyss, below Hades, in which Zeus imprisoned the Titans.
• Hephaestus: Hephaestus is the ancient Greek god of fire, metalworking, and handicrafts, identified by the Romans with Vulcan.
• Crete: Crete is a Greek island in the Mediterranean.
• Calydon: Calydon is an ancient city in W Greece, in Aetolia.
• Cyprus: Cyprus is an island republic in the Mediterranean.
• Corinth: Corinth is an ancient city in Greece, on the Isthmus of Corinth: one of the wealthiest and most powerful of the ancient Greek cities.
• Arcadia: Arcadia is a mountainous region of ancient Greece, traditionally known for the contented pastoral innocence of its people

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Glossary edit see section history

• Harpy: A Harpy is a ravenous, filthy monster having a woman's head and a bird's body
• Tartarus: Tartarus is a sunless abyss, below Hades, in which Zeus imprisoned the Titans.
• Henbane: A henbane is an Old World plant, Hyoscyamus niger, of the nightshade family, having sticky, hairy fetid foliage and greenish-yellow flowers, and possessing narcotic and poisonous properties esp. destructive to domestic fowls.
• psyche: In Classical Mythology a psyche is a personification of the soul, which in the form of a beautiful girl was loved by Eros.
• oracle: An oracle is an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Bernard Evslin (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 292.13

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Mythology › Children's Books › Greek & Roman
• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths › Greek & Roman
• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Mythology › Greek & Roman
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Fairy Tales
• Books › Religion & Spirituality

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