Simon and Schuster Book of Greek Gods and Heroes

Alice Low is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches, a book that has been adapted into a musical and a short animated film. She has also edited several anthologies and written many children's books and poems. Alice Low lives in Briarcliff Manor, New York.

Contents Foreward MOTHER EARTH AND HER CHILDREN THE GODS AND GODDESSES OF MOUNT OLYMPUS ZEUS AND THE CREATION OF MANKIND Prometheus and His Gift to Man Pandora Deucalion and Pyrrha and the Great Flood TRIUMPHS OF THE GODS Io and Europa Persephone Arachne Niobe Pygmalion Echo Narcissus Phaëthon Orpheus Oedipus Bellerophon Atalanta THE HEROES Perseus The Prophecy Medusa Heracles The Crime The Labors Jason The Argonauts The Golden Fleece The Return Home Theseus The Banquet The Minotaur Daedalus Odysseus The Trojan War The Voyage of Odysseus THE CONSTELLATIONS Orion Cassiopeia Castor and Pollux Afterword Index