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§ 63. Ægina....
§ 64. Antiope; Lines from Tennyson's Amphion
§ 65. Jupiter, a friend of man (Baucis and Philemon); Lines
from Swift's Baucis and Philemon..
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§ 66. Juno's Best Gift; Lines from Gosse's Sons of Cydippe....
§ 67. Myths of Minerva : The Contest with Neptune; Arachne;
Extract from Spenser's Muiopotmos.....
§ 68. Myths of Mars: Mars and Diomede; Extract from Lang,
Leaf & Myers' Iliad
§ 69. Mars and Minerva; Extract from Lang, Leaf & Myers'
Iliad
§ 70. Mars and Mortals; The Fortunes of Cadmus..
§ 71. Myths of Vulcan...
§ 72. Myths of Apollo: The Wanderings of Latona..
§ 73. Apollo, the Light Triumphant......
$74. Hyacinthus.
875. Phaëton
§ 76. The Plague sent upon the Greeks before Troy; Extract
§ 77. The Punishment of Niobe; Lines from Landor's Niobe...
$78. The Lamentation of Linus..
$79. Esculapius......
§ 80. Apollo in Exile; Lowell's Shepherd of King Admetus...
§ 81. Admetus and Alcestis; Extracts from Browning's Balaus-
tion's Adventure
§ 82. Apollo, the Musician
§ 83. Apollo, Pan, and Midas; Shelley's Hymn of Pan..
$ 84. The Loves of Apollo......
$ 85. Daphne; Lines from Lowell's Fable for Critics...
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§ 86. Clytie; Lines by Thomas Moore....
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§ 87. Myths of Diana....
§ 88. The Flight of Arethusa; Shelley's Arethusa.
142
§ 89. The Fate of Acteon...
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§ 90. The Fortunes and Death of Orion..
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891. The Pleiads
§ 92. Endymion; Lines from Keats' Endymion, Bk. III... . . .
§ 93. Myths of Venus: Adonis; Lang's Translation of Bion's
Lament....
§ 94. Cupid and Psyche; Lines from William Morris' Earthly
Paradise, and from T. K. Hervey; Keats' Ode to Psyche.
§ 95. Atalanta's Race; Lines from Landor's Hippomenes and
Atalanta
§ 96. Hero and Leander; Extracts from Marlowe's Hero and
Leander; Keats' On a Picture of Leander....................
§ 97. Pygmalion and the Statue; Extracts from Lang's New
Pygmalion, and from William Morris' Earthly Para-
dise....
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§ 98. Pyramus and Thisbe..
$99. Phaon..
§ 100. The Vengeance of Venus...
§ 101. Homer's Hymn to Mercury....
CHAPTER XI. - MYTHS OF THE GREAT DIVINITIES OF
§ 102. Myths of Bacchus: The Wanderings of Bacchus; Lines
by Longfellow..
§ 103. The Story of Acetes; Lines from Gosse's Praise of
Dionysus.....
§ 104. The Choice of King Midas....
CHAPTER XII. - FROM THE EARTH TO THE UNDER-
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WORLD.
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§ 105. Myths of Ceres, Pluto, and Proserpine: The Rape
of Proserpine.....
181
§ 106. Triptolemus and the Eleusinian Mysteries; Shelley's
Song of Proserpine
184
§ 107. Orpheus and Eurydice; Lines from Landor's Orpheus
and Eurydice, in Dry Sticks, and from Southey's Thal-
aba..
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CHAPTER XIII. - MYTHS OF NEPTUNE, RULER OF THE
WATERS..
§ 108. Neptune: Of the Sea...
§ 109. Of the Streams and Fountains
§ 110. Pelops and Hippodamia....
CHAPTER XIV. — MYTHS OF THE LESSER DIVINITIES
OF HEAVEN....
§ III. Myths of Stars and Winds
§ 112. Cephalus and Procris; Dobson's The Death of Procris
§ 113. Ceyx and Halcyone...
§ 114. Aurora and Tithonus; Lines from Tennyson's Tithonus .
§ 115. Memnon; Lines from Darwin's Botanic Garden .....
CHAPTER XV.-MYTHS OF THE LESSER DIVINITIES
OF EARTH, AND THE UNDERWORLD..
§ 116. Pan, and the Personification of Nature; Lines from
Milton's Hymn to the Nativity; and from Mrs. Brown-
ing's Dead Pan; Stedman's Pan in Wall Street......
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§ 117. Other Lesser Gods of Earth: Satyrs, etc.; Lines from
Buchanan's Satyr
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§ 118. Echo and Narcissus....
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§ 119. Echo, Pan, Lyde, and the Satyr; Lang's Translation of
Moschus, Idyl VI..
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§ 120. The Naiads; Lines from Buchanan's Naiad.
§ 121. The Dryads, or Hamadryads....
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§ 122. Dryope
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$123. Rhoecus; Extracts from Lowell's Rhoecus..
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§ 124. Pomona and Vertumnus; Lines from Thomson's Seasons.
§ 125. The Underworld: The Cranes of Ibycus....
CHAPTER XVI. — MYTHS OF THE LESSER DIVINITIES
OF THE WATERS..
§ 126. Dwellers in the Sea: Galatea and Polyphemus; Lang's
Theocritus, Idyl VI..............
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§ 127. Glaucus and Scylla; Extract from Keats' Endymion....
§ 128. Nisus and Scylla ...
§ 129. Leucothea .
§ 130. Proteus and Aristæus..
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§ 131. Dwellers in the Streams: Acheloüs; Lines from Mil-
ton's Comus.
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CHAPTER XVII. - MYTHS OF THE OLDER HEROES.... 223-243
§ 132. The Older and the Younger Heroes....
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§ 133. The Genealogy of Danaüs: The Danaïds.
$134. The Doom of King Acrisius ...
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§ 135. Perseus and Medusa; Extracts from William Morris'
Earthly Paradise; Shelley's Medusa.
§ 136. Perseus and Atlas.
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§ 137. Perseus and Andromeda; Lines from Milton's Il Pen-
serosa and Comus, Kingsley's Andromeda, and Mil-
§ 141. The Loss of Hylas; Lang's Theocritus, Idyl XIII...............
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§ 142. The Expedition against Laomedon.....
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§ 143. The Death of Hercules; Lines from Milton and from
S. G. Bulfinch's Schiller's Ideal and Life .......
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CHAPTER XVIII. -THE FAMILY OF ÆOLUS.
244-249
§ 144. The Descendants of Deucalion
244
§ 145. The Quest of the Golden Fleece; Lines from Dyer's
§ 148. The Calydonian Hunt; Extracts from Swinburne's Ata-
lanta in Calydon...
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CHAPTER XX. -THE HOUSE OF MINOS..
§ 149. Minos of Crete .....
§ 150. Dædalus and Icarus; Lines by Darwin..
CHAPTER XXI. - THE DESCENDANTS OF CECROPS AND
ERICHTHONIUS
§ 151. Cecrops and Erichthonius; Matthew Arnold's Philo-
mela
§ 152. Theseus
§ 153. Theseus and Ariadne; Hexameter translation of the
Peleus and Thetis of Catullus by C. M. Gayley ....
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§ 154. Bacchus and Ariadne; Hexameter translation of the
Peleus and Thetis (continued).
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§ 160.
Edipus, the King; Lines from Plumptre's Sophocles'
(Ed. King....
270
§ 161. Edipus at Colonus; Lines from Plumptre's Sophocles'
Ed. Colon..
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CHAPTER XXIII. — MYTHS OF THE YOUNGER HEROES 273-276
§ 162. Their Exploits....
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§ 163. The Seven against Thebes...
§ 164. Antigone; Lines from Plumptre's Sophocles' Antigone.
(a) The Epigoni...
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276
CHAPTER XXIV. — HOUSES CONCERNED IN THE TRO-
JAN WAR.
277-283
§ 165. Three Houses Concerned..
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(a) Peleus; Hexameter translation of the Peleus and
Thetis of Catullus by C. M. Gayley......