The Mythology of Greece and Rome
by Otto Seemann
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About this eBook
- Author
- Seemann, Otto, 1825-1901
- Title
- The mythology of Greece and Rome, with special reference to its use in art
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism
- Subject
- Art, Roman
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 61901
- Release Date
- April 23, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE MYTHOLOGY OF GREECE AND ROME WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS USE IN ART
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. — INTRODUCTION. — I.—SUBJECTS OF GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY. — II.—POPULAR IDEAS CONCERNING THE GODS.
- 5.PART I.—COSMOGONY AND THEOGONY.
- 6.PART II.—THE GODS. — I.—THE GODS OF OLYMPUS. — A.—SUPERIOR DEITIES. — B.—SECONDARY DEITIES. — II.—THE GODS OF THE SEA AND WATERS. — III.—THE GODS OF THE EARTH AND LOWER WORLD. — IV.—ROMAN DEITIES OF THE HOUSE AND FAMILY.
- 7.PART III.—THE HEROES. — I.—INTRODUCTORY. — II.—THE CREATION AND PRIMITIVE CONDITION OF MANKIND. — III.—PROVINCIAL HEROIC LEGENDS. — IV.—COMBINED UNDERTAKINGS OF THE LATER HEROIC AGE. — V.—MYTHIC SEERS AND BARDS.
- 8.INDEX.
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