Record details

• ISBN: 9780316223331
• ISBN: 0316223336
• ISBN: 9780316223348
• ISBN: 0316223344
• Physical Description: xii, 482 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 22 cm
• Publisher: New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, [2013]
• Copyright: ©1969

Content descriptions

General Note:

"First Back Bay paperback edition, August 1998."--Title page verso.

"Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, 1942"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The Gods, the creation, and the earliest heroes. The Gods ; The two great Gods of Earth ; How the world and mankind were created ; The earliest heroes -- Stories of love and adventure. Cupid and Psyche ; Eight brief tales of lovers ; The quest of the Golden Fleece ; Four great adventures -- The great heroes before the Trojan War. Perseus ; Theseus ; Hercules ; Atalanta -- The heroes of the Trojan War. The Trojan War ; The fall of Troy ; The adventures of Odysseus ; The adventures of Aeneas -- The great families of mythology. The house of Atreus ; The royal house of Thebes ; The royal house of Athens -- The less important myths. Midas -- and others ; Brief myths arranged alphabetically -- The mythology of the Norsemen. The stories of Signy and Sigurd ; The Norse Gods -- Genealogical tables.

Study Program Information Note:

Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.2 20 8663.

Accelerated Reader AR Upper Grades 8.2 20.0 quiz: 8663.

Reading Counts RC High School 8.30 27.0 quiz: 8220.

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Subject:

Mythology, Greek.
Mythology, Roman.
Mythology, Norse.

Genre:

Myths.