{"product_id":"the-greek-myths-isbn-9780143106715","title":"The Greek Myths","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe gold standard in Greek mythology, in a dazzling Graphic Deluxe Edition \u003cb\u003efeaturing flaps, deckled edges, and specially commissioned cover art by Ross Macdonald and\u003c\/b\u003e a new introduction by the \u003cb\u003emultimillion-copy\u003c\/b\u003e bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the creation of the world out of Chaos and the birth of the Olympians to the Trojan War and Odysseus's return, Robert Graves's superb retelling of the Greek myths has long been acclaimed as the definitive edition. Graves draws on sources scattered throughout ancient literature, using a novelist's skill to weave a crisp, coherent narrative of each myth and providing commentaries with cross-references, interpretations, and explanations based on solid scholarship. The result is a classic volume of many of the greatest stories ever told—stories of the gods, heroes, and extraordinary events that inspired Homer, the Greek tragedians, and so much of subsequent European literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cb\u003eRobert Graves\u003c\/b\u003e (1895–1985) is the author of the historical novel \u003ci\u003eI, Claudius\u003c\/i\u003e, the classic war memoir \u003ci\u003eGoodbye to All That\u003c\/i\u003e, and more than 140 other published works, including translations of Homer and Suetonius for Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRick Riordan\u003c\/b\u003e (introduction) is the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the Kane Chronicles, and the Heroes of Olympus. More than twenty million copies of his books are in print. After teaching middle school English and history for fifteen years, he now writes full time in San Antonio, Texas, where he lives with his wife and two sons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoss MacDonald\u003c\/b\u003e (cover illustrator) is an illustrator, comic-book artist, and contributing editor of the \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e whose illustrations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, among other magazines. He lives in Connecticut.\u003cu\u003eContents\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.           The Pelasgian Creation Myth       \u003cbr\u003e 2.           The Homeric and Orphic Creation Myths               \u003cbr\u003e 3.           The Olympian Creation Myth       \u003cbr\u003e 4.           Two Philosophical Creation Myths            \u003cbr\u003e 5.           The Five Ages of Man      \u003cbr\u003e 6.           The Castration of Uranus              \u003cbr\u003e 7.           The Dethronement of Cronus      \u003cbr\u003e 8.           The Birth of Athene         \u003cbr\u003e 9.           Zeus and Metis  \u003cbr\u003e 10.         The Fates            \u003cbr\u003e 11.         The Birth of Aphrodite    \u003cbr\u003e 12.         Hera and Her Children    \u003cbr\u003e 13.         Zeus and Hera    \u003cbr\u003e 14.         Births of Hermes, Apollo, Artemis, and Dionysus \u003cbr\u003e 15.         The Birth of Eros              \u003cbr\u003e 16.         Poseidon’s Nature and Deeds      \u003cbr\u003e 17.         Hermes’s Nature and Deeds        \u003cbr\u003e 18.         Aphrodite’s Nature and Deeds    \u003cbr\u003e 19.         Ares’s Nature and Deeds              \u003cbr\u003e 20.         Hestia’s Nature and Deeds           \u003cbr\u003e 21.         Apollo’s Nature and Deeds           \u003cbr\u003e 22.         Artemis’s Nature and Deeds        \u003cbr\u003e 23.         Hephaestus’s Nature and Deeds \u003cbr\u003e 24.         Demeter’s Nature and Deeds      \u003cbr\u003e 25.         Athene’s Nature and Deeds         \u003cbr\u003e 26.         Pan’s Nature and Deeds \u003cbr\u003e 27.         Dionysus’s Nature and Deeds      \u003cbr\u003e 28.         Orpheus               \u003cbr\u003e 29.         Ganymedes         \u003cbr\u003e 30.         Zagreus \u003cbr\u003e 31.         The Gods of the Underworld\u003cbr\u003e 32.         Tyche and Nemesis          \u003cbr\u003e 33.         The Children of the Sea  \u003cbr\u003e 34.         The Children of Echidne \u003cbr\u003e 35.         The Giants’ Revolt\u003cbr\u003e 36.         Typhon  \u003cbr\u003e 37.         The Aloeids\u003cbr\u003e 38.         Deucalion’s Flood\u003cbr\u003e 39.         Atlas and Prometheus\u003cbr\u003e 40.         Eos         \u003cbr\u003e 41.         Orion\u003cbr\u003e 42.         Helius    \u003cbr\u003e 43.         The Sons of Hellen           \u003cbr\u003e 44.         Ion         \u003cbr\u003e 45.         Alcyone and Ceyx            \u003cbr\u003e 46.         Tereus   \u003cbr\u003e 47.         Erechtheus and Eumolpus            \u003cbr\u003e 48.         Boreas  \u003cbr\u003e 49.         Alope     \u003cbr\u003e 50.         Asclepius             \u003cbr\u003e 51.         The Oracles        \u003cbr\u003e 52.         The Alphabet      \u003cbr\u003e 53.         The Dactyls         \u003cbr\u003e 54.         The Telchines     \u003cbr\u003e 55.         The Empusae      \u003cbr\u003e 56.         Io           \u003cbr\u003e 57.         Phoroneus           \u003cbr\u003e 58.         Europe and Cadmus        \u003cbr\u003e 59.         Cadmus and Harmonia   \u003cbr\u003e 60.         Belus and the Danaids    \u003cbr\u003e 61.         Lamia    \u003cbr\u003e 62.         Leda      \u003cbr\u003e 63.         Ixion      \u003cbr\u003e 64.         Endymion            \u003cbr\u003e 65.         Pygmalion and Galatea  \u003cbr\u003e 66.         Aeacus  \u003cbr\u003e 67.         Sisyphus               \u003cbr\u003e 68.         Salmoneus and Tyro       \u003cbr\u003e 69.         Alcestis \u003cbr\u003e 70.         Athamas              \u003cbr\u003e 71.         The Mares of Glaucus     \u003cbr\u003e 72.         Melampus           \u003cbr\u003e 73.         Perseus \u003cbr\u003e 74.         The Rival Twins  \u003cbr\u003e 75.         Bellerophon\u003cbr\u003e 76.         Antiope \u003cbr\u003e 77.         Niobe    \u003cbr\u003e 78.         Caenis and Caeneus        \u003cbr\u003e 79.         Erigone \u003cbr\u003e 80.         The Calydonian Boar       \u003cbr\u003e 81.         Telamon and Peleus        \u003cbr\u003e 82.         Aristaeus             \u003cbr\u003e 83.         Midas    \u003cbr\u003e 84.         Cleobis and Biton             \u003cbr\u003e 85.         Narcissus             \u003cbr\u003e 86.         Phyllis and Carya              \u003cbr\u003e 87.         Arion     \u003cbr\u003e 88.         Minos and His Brothers  \u003cbr\u003e 89.         The Loves of Minos         \u003cbr\u003e 90.         The Children of Pasiphaë              \u003cbr\u003e 91.         Scylla and Nisus \u003cbr\u003e 92.         Daedalus and Talos         \u003cbr\u003e 93.         Catreus and Althaemenes             \u003cbr\u003e 94.         The Sons of Pandion        \u003cbr\u003e 95.         The Birth of Theseus       \u003cbr\u003e 96.         The Labours of Theseus  \u003cbr\u003e 97.         Theseus and Medea        \u003cbr\u003e 98.         Theseus in Crete              \u003cbr\u003e 99.         The Federalization of Attica         \u003cbr\u003e 100.       Theseus and the Amazons            \u003cbr\u003e 101.       Phaedra and Hippolytus \u003cbr\u003e 102.       Lapiths and Centaurs      \u003cbr\u003e 103.       Theseus in Tartarus         \u003cbr\u003e 104.       The Death of Theseus     \u003cbr\u003e 105.       Oedipus               \u003cbr\u003e 106.       The Seven Against Thebes            \u003cbr\u003e 107.       The Epigoni         \u003cbr\u003e 108.       Tantalus               \u003cbr\u003e 109.       Pelops and Oenomaus    \u003cbr\u003e 110.       The Children of Pelops    \u003cbr\u003e 111.       Atreus and Thyestes        \u003cbr\u003e 112.       Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra                \u003cbr\u003e 113.       The Vengeance of Orestes            \u003cbr\u003e 114.       The Trial of Orestes         \u003cbr\u003e 115.       The Pacification of the Erinnyes  \u003cbr\u003e 116.       Iphigeneia Among the Taurians  \u003cbr\u003e 117.       The Reign of Orestes       \u003cbr\u003e 118.       The Birth of Heracles      \u003cbr\u003e 119.       The Youth of Heracles    \u003cbr\u003e 120.       The Daughters of Thespius           \u003cbr\u003e 121.       Erginus  \u003cbr\u003e 122.       The Madness of Heracles              \u003cbr\u003e 123.       The First Labour: The Nemean Lion          \u003cbr\u003e 124.       The Second Labour: The Lernaean Hydra               \u003cbr\u003e 125.       The Third Labour: The Ceryneian Hind     \u003cbr\u003e 126.       The Fourth Labour: The Erymanthian Boar            \u003cbr\u003e 127.       The Fifth Labour: The Stables of Augeias \u003cbr\u003e 128.       The Sixth Labour: The Stymphalian Birds \u003cbr\u003e 129.       The Seventh Labour: The Cretan Bull\u003cbr\u003e 130.       The Eighth Labour: The Mares of Diomedes          \u003cbr\u003e 131.       The Ninth Labour: Hippolyte’s Girdle        \u003cbr\u003e 132.       The Tenth Labour: The Cattle of Geryon  \u003cbr\u003e 133.       The Eleventh Labour: The Apples of the Hesperides           \u003cbr\u003e 134.       The Twelfth Labour: The Capture of Cerberus\u003cbr\u003e 135.       The Murder of Iphitus     \u003cbr\u003e 136.       Omphale              \u003cbr\u003e 137.       Hesione               \u003cbr\u003e 138.       The Conquest of Elis        \u003cbr\u003e 139.       The Capture of Pylus       \u003cbr\u003e 140.       The Sons of Hippocoön   \u003cbr\u003e 141.       Auge      \u003cbr\u003e 142.       Deianeira             \u003cbr\u003e 143.       Heracles in Trachis           \u003cbr\u003e 144.       Iole        \u003cbr\u003e 145.       The Apotheosis of Heracles          \u003cbr\u003e 146.       The Children of Heracles               \u003cbr\u003e 147.       Linus      \u003cbr\u003e 148.       The Argonauts Assemble               \u003cbr\u003e 149.       The Lemnian Women and King Cyzicus    \u003cbr\u003e 150.       Hylas, Amycus, and Phineus         \u003cbr\u003e 151.       From the Symplegades to Colchis             \u003cbr\u003e 152.       The Seizure of the Fleece              \u003cbr\u003e 153.       The Murder of Apsyrtus \u003cbr\u003e 154.       The Argo Returns to Greece\u003cbr\u003e 155.       The Death of Pelias         \u003cbr\u003e 156.       Medea at Ephyra              \u003cbr\u003e 157.       Medea in Exile   \u003cbr\u003e 158.       The Foundation of Troy  \u003cbr\u003e 159.       Paris and Helen \u003cbr\u003e 160.       The First Gathering at Aulis          \u003cbr\u003e 161.       The Second Gathering at Aulis     \u003cbr\u003e 162.       Nine Years of War            \u003cbr\u003e 163.       The Wrath of Achilles      \u003cbr\u003e 164.       The Death of Achilles      \u003cbr\u003e 165.       The Madness of Ajax       \u003cbr\u003e 166.       The Oracles of Troy         \u003cbr\u003e 167.       The Wooden Horse         \u003cbr\u003e 168.       The Sack of Troy               \u003cbr\u003e 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