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| Preface | |
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| Out of Chaos, Vast and Dark | |
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| Tales of Creation and Destruction | |
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| Tales of Dismemberment | |
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| Marduk Slays the Serpent | |
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| Marduk: A Chronology | |
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| P'an Ku Creates the World | |
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| The Frost Giants and the Creation of the World | |
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| The Sacrifice | |
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| Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca Attack the Goddess | |
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| Ta'aroa Gets Angry | |
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| Sky Woman Falls to Earth | |
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| Izanami and Izanagi | |
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| If not Green Cheese, What? | |
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| The Mating of the Gods | |
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| An Egyptian Story: Variations on a Theme | |
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| The Greek Creation | |
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| Night | |
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| The Origin of Humanity | |
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| Earthlings | |
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| Skin, Bone and More | |
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| Sex | |
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| The Ages of Humanity | |
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| A Tale from Borneo | |
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| The Greek Version | |
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| A Hindu Scenario | |
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| The Fifth Sun and the Creation of Humanity | |
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| The Chronicle of the Plumed Serpent | |
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| Two Mayan Myths | |
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| Tales of the Flood | |
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| Enlil Can't Stand the Noise | |
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| Zeus Gets Angry | |
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| Venus Saves Wainkaura | |
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| Nu Gua, the Gourd Girl | |
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| Why the World is Such a Mess: Tricksters and Troublemakers | |
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| Inktomi | |
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| Coyote | |
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| Maui | |
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| Eshu | |
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| Loki | |
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| Death, Destruction and Apocalypse | |
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| Why We Die | |
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| A Story about Stones | |
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| Hell and the Afterlife | |
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| Ragnarok: The Final Battle | |
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| The Doom of the Gods | |
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| From the Annals of Mythology | |
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| The Life of Hesiod | |
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| Snorri Sturluson | |
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| An Abecedarium of Goddesses | |
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| Amaterasu | |
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| Bastet | |
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| Benten | |
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| Brigit | |
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| Cerridwen | |
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| Coatlicue and Coyolxuahqui | |
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| Cybele | |
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| Durga | |
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| Epona | |
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| Freyja | |
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| Frigg | |
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| Gnowee | |
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| Heng-o | |
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| Huitaca | |
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| Inanna | |
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| Isis | |
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| Jari | |
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| Kali | |
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| Kuan Yin | |
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| Lilith | |
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| Mary | |
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| Niamh (and Oto-Hime) | |
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| Oshun and Oya | |
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| Parvati | |
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| Pele | |
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| Quies | |
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| Rhiannon | |
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| Sedna | |
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| Tatsuta-Hime | |
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| Taueret | |
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| Tien-Mu | |
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| Uke Mochi | |
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| The Valkyries | |
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| White Buffalo Woman | |
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| Xochiquetzal | |
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| Yambe-Akka | |
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| The Zorya | |
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| From the Annals of Mythology | |
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| Max Muller and the Disease of Language | |
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| Sir James George Frazer and The Golden Bough | |
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| Jane E. Harrison | |
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| The Greeks | |
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| Zeus, Lord of the Dark Storm Cloud | |
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| His Childhood | |
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| The Clash of the Titans | |
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| A Threat Overcome | |
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| His Authority | |
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| Zeus Loses His Son | |
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| The Amorous History of Zeus | |
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| Love's Masquerade | |
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| Hera, Goddess of Marriage | |
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| Hera's Children | |
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| Tiresias | |
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| Poseidon, God of the Sea-Blue Mane | |
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| Poseidon Hippios, Lord of Horses (and Other Animals) | |
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| Scylla and Charybdis | |
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| From the Annals of Mythology: Homer, Lawrence of Arabia, and the Homeric Question | |
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| Demeter and Persephone | |
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| The Eleusinian Mysteries | |
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| Demeter's Son Ploutus | |
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| Hades: Lord of the Dead, Land of the Dead | |
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| Residents of Hades | |
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| Another Greek Afterlife: Plato and the Myth of Er | |
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| Hestia and the Vestal Virgins | |
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| Golden Aphrodite | |
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| Anchises | |
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| Adonis | |
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| The Judgment of Paris | |
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| The Punishments of Aphrodite | |
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| Aphrodite's Children | |
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| Apollo, God of Light | |
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| The Birth of Apollo | |
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| The Delphic Oracle | |
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| The Mouse God and His Son | |
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| Two Musical Competitions | |
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| The Loves of Apollo | |
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| The Sibyl of Cumae | |
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| Apollo and Helios, Gods of the Sun | |
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| Artemis: Wild Thing | |
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| Niobe's Children | |
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| The Death of Actaeon | |
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| The Death of Orion | |
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| The Bears of Artemis | |
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| Lunar Goddesses | |
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| Moon Gods | |
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| Atalanta and the Calydonian Boar Hunt | |
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| Atalanta Gets Married | |
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| Gray-Eyed Athena: A Motherless Child | |
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| Athena's Birth | |
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| Athena and Her City | |
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| Pallas Athene | |
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| Arachne | |
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| Erichthonius | |
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| What Athena Wore | |
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| Athena: Now and Then | |
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| Ares and Mars, Gods of War | |
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| Romulus and Remus | |
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| Hephaestus, the Crippled Smith | |
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| The Tale of a Cuckold | |
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| The Masterpieces of Hephaestus | |
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| Prometheus, Champion of Humankind | |
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| The Sacrifice | |
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| Zeus Strikes Back | |
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| Prometheus Is Punished | |
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| Hermes, Lord of Rascals, Prince of Thieves | |
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| The First Lyre | |
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| Hermes Becomes an Olympian God | |
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| Hermes, Io, and the Herms | |
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| Hermes Trismegistus | |
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| The Great God Pan | |
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| Echo and Narcissus | |
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| Wind-footed Iris, Goddess of the Rainbow | |
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| Death and the Rainbow | |
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| Dionysus, God of Joy | |
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| The Invention and Spread of Wine | |
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| The Rites of Dionysus | |
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| More Tales of Dismemberment | |
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| King Midas | |
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| Dionysus and Orpheus | |
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| Orpheus and Eurydice | |
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| From the Annals of Mythology: Ovid | |
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| Heroes | |
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| Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Hero | |
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| The Valet's Hero | |
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| Hero Worship in Antiquity | |
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| Heroines in Antiquity | |
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| Emerson's Hero | |
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| Carlyle's Hero | |
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| E. B. Tylor's Hero | |
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| Von Hahn's Hero | |
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| Raglan's Hero | |
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| Otto Rank's Hero | |
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| Sigmund Freud's Hero | |
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| The Jungian Hero | |
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| Wallace Stevens's Hero | |
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| Joseph Campbell's Hero | |
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| Gilgamesh | |
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| Gilgamesh and Enkidu | |
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| The Search for Immortality | |
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| The Woman of the Vine and the Ferryman | |
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| Utnapishtim's Test | |
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| The Old Men Are Young Again | |
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| Perseus and the Medusa: The Hero's Task | |
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| On the Medusa | |
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| Heracles | |
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| The Labors of Heracles | |
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| Heracles Helps Out: Another Round Trip to the Underworld | |
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| Jason and the Golden Fleece | |
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| Jason and Medea | |
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| A Flawed Hero | |
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| Parents Who Kill | |
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| Tales of the Cauldron | |
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| The Dagda's Cauldron | |
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| Bran's Cauldron | |
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| Theseus | |
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| Theseus in Athens | |
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| Theseus and the Minotaur | |
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| Daedalus, Icarus, and Minos | |
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| On Labyrinths | |
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| Theseus in the Underworld | |
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| Theseus and Phaedra | |
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| Krishna | |
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| Krishna's Exploits | |
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| The Last Incarnation of Vishnu, and the Next | |
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| Blue | |
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| Mwindo: Little-one-just-born-he-walked | |
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| Mwindo Meets His Aunt | |
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| Into the Underworld | |
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| Mwindo and the Dragon | |
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| Mwindo Is Purified | |
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| Nyamitondo: A Sister's Story | |
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| Cu Chulainn | |
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| The Birth of Cu Chulainn | |
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| Cu Chulainn Earns His Name | |
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| Cu Chulainn the Warrior | |
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| Macha's Curse | |
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| Cu Chulainn in Love | |
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| The Cattle Raid of Cooley | |
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| The Death of Cu Chulainn | |
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| The Heroic Lover | |
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| The Salmon of Knowledge | |
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| Finn's Pursuit of Love | |
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| Psyche | |
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| Venus Reacts | |
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| The Labors of Psyche | |
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| Glossary: A Compendium of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters, and Mortals | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |