Book 1 on Superphysics

Birth of Zeus

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THE LIBRARY CONTENTS BOOK 1

Theogony: Birth of Zeus
Theogony: War of the Titans
Theogony: Olympian Gods
Apollo & Artemis
Demeter & Persephone
War of the Giants, Typhon
Prometheus, Deucalion, Daughters of Aeolus
Oeneus, Meleager, Tydeus
Sons of Aeolus, Melampus, Admetus, Pelias, Argonauts

BOOK 2

The Titans [Igigi]

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[1.4.1] Of the daughters of Coeus, Asteria in the likeness of a quail flung herself into the sea in order to escape the amorous advances of Zeus, and a city was formerly called after her Asteria, but afterwards it was named Delos.56 But Latona for her intrigue with Zeus was hunted by Hera over the whole earth, till she came to Delos and brought forth first Artemis, by the help of whose midwifery she afterwards gave birth to Apollo.57

After the Great Flood

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[1.7.1] Prometheus moulded men out of water and earth and gave them also fire, which, unknown to Zeus, he had hidden in a stalk of fennel.

But when Zeus learned of it, he ordered Hephaestus to nail his body to Mount Caucasus, which is a Scythian mountain.

Althaea

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[1.8.1] Reigning over Calydon, Oeneus was the first who received a vine-plant from Dionysus.

He married Althaea, daughter of Thestius, and begat Toxeus, whom he slew with his own hand because he leaped over the ditch.

Jason

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[1.9.1]Of the sons of Aeolus, Athamas ruled over Boeotia and begat a son Phrixus and a daughter Helle by Nephele.142 And he married a second wife, Ino, by whom he had Learchus and Melicertes. But Ino plotted against the children of Nephele and persuaded the women to parch the wheat; and having got the wheat they did so without the knowledge of the men. But the earth, being sown with parched wheat, did not yield its annual crops; so Athamas sent to Delphi to inquire how he might be delivered from the dearth. Now Ino persuaded the messengers to say it was foretold that the infertility would cease if Phrixus were sacrificed to Zeus.