The Definitive Guide to Greek Mythology: The Gods, Heroes, Monsters, and Legends of Ancient Greece

The Greeks had a story for every eventuality, and their mythology was at the heart of it all. Woven into this staggering early flowering of human imagination were stupendous natural disasters and long periods of blood-soaked, primitive warfare—even mutually-destructive struggles within its own city-states—but from these events of long ages tumbled forth a cornucopia of gods, myths and monsters—replete with a body of epic legends of heroes and heroines.

This book includes so many of the astounding stories and myths of ancient Greece, from the creation of the universe and the earth—Chaos, Gaia and the primordial deities; Uranus, and the titans; to the gods of Olympus, the fates, and the myriad lesser beings—the Furies, nymphs and satyrs among them. It is the definitive guide to the incredible mythology of a civilization which continues to enrich us today.