GREEK MYTHOLOGY

Παρουσίαση

Intellect is the gift of the human race, the greatest and most enduring of all time. This is the means by which it perceives, exists, creates and evolves. No matter how extensive' knowledge is, it has its limits. Intellect thirsts for fulfilment, to ceaselessly push these limits outward. Thus, people in that far-off period wanted to learn for they felt powerless and vulnerable in a world without bounds. They were deeply concerned with the beginning and the end and all the supernatural forces that could not be mastered. Through intellect, humanity came to fashion its view of the world. Utilizing the raw information from its immediate surroundings, it cultivated knowledge and experience, while imagination filled in the rest. Mankind had need of "myth" because that was his own personal, truth. His faith in this increased his certitude about the world he had created around himself. This is how we have come to accept the myth in its conventional sense, that is, a narration that informs us about an older order of the world and explains it. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

THE CREATION OF THE GODS
The birth of the gods - The first gods - The Titans -The battle of the Titans - The battle of the Giants - The human race
THE GODS OF OLYMPUS
The twelve Gods of Olympus - The lesser gods -Other inferior gods - The oracles
ΟΙ ΗΡΩΕΣ
Heracles - Theseus - The voyage of the Argonauts - Perseus - Bellerophon - Daedalus and Icarus - Orpheus - Phaethon - The royal house of the Labdacids - The royal house of the Pelopids
THE TROJAN WAR
Its causes - The Achaean Campaign Against Troy - The Fall of Troy
THE ODYSSEY
The wanderings of Odysseus - The return to Ithaca