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APOLLO BELVEDERE.
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MANUAL
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MYTHOLOGY
GREEK AND ROMAN, NORSE AND OLD GERMAN,
HINDOO AND EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY
BY
ALEXANDER S. MURRAY
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, BRITISH MUSEUM
REVISED AND CORRECTED ON THE BASIS OF
THE TWENTIETH EDITION OF PETISCUS
WITH TWELVE FULL-PAGE PLATES AND ONE HUNDRED
ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT
PHILADELPHIA:
DAVID McKAY, PUBLISHER,
604-8 SOUTH WASHINGTON SQUAKE,
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Copyright, 189S,
BY DAVID MeKAY.
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THIS EDITIO N
IS DEDICATED TO
J. K. NI.
BY THE EDITOR
Philadelphia, Pa.,
June, 1895.
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The intelligible forms of ancient poets,
The fair humanities of old religion,
The Power, the Beauty and the Majesty
That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain,
Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring,
Or chasms and watery depths,—all these have vanished
They live no longer in the faith of reason,
But still the heart doth need a language ; still
Doth the old instinct bring back the old names
Spirits or gods that used to share this earth
With man as with their friend ; and at this day
'Tis Jupiter who brings whate'er is great
And Venus who brings everything that's fair.
Coleridge.
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PREFACE.
A KNOWLEDGE of Classical Mythology is essential to an
appreciative understanding of many of the masterpieces of
English literature, from Chaucer's time to our own.
Edmund Burke has well said : " The Grecian mythology
is so intimately connected with the work of the greatest
poets that it will continue to be interesting as long as
classical poetry exists, and must form an indispensable
part of the education of the man of literature and of the
gentleman."
This book, designed as a help in acquiring that education,
is a revised and corrected edition of Murray's Manual of
Mythology, a most popular English work based upon the
German works of Preller, Welcker, and Petiscus. The last-
named author's Der Olyinp has passed through more than
twenty editions, the most recent of which have been con-
stantly consulted by the editor.
Ten full-page engravings, taken from photographs of
antique works of art, have been added, and all the cuts of
the old edition of Murray have been carefully examined,
some of them rejected as representing only modern ideas
of the mythological subjects, and many others replaced by
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lO PREFACE.
engravings made from photographs of the originals of early
Greek art recently discovered, while numerous entirely new
figures of the same authentic character have been added,
thus contributing greatly to the value of this edition. For
greater convenience in reference the figures have been in-
serted in the text, in close connection with the description
of the subjects which they represent.
As another aid to the reader, a few genealogical tables,
showing the relationship of the gods and goddesses, have
been inserted.
References to the works of the poets who have made use
of the old myths have been added, and, occasionally, ex-
tracts from their poems illustrating some particular point
have been placed in the text. In this part of his work the
editor has been greatly aided by Mr. E. C. Guild's Greek
Mythology in English Poetry : A Bibliographical Cotitri-
bution.
It has been thought best to abandon the attempt made in
the English edition to introduce the Greek method of spell-
ing the proper names, which led to many inconsistencies and
much confusion, and the editor has restored the commonly
accepted English orthography.
L. M. R.
CONTENTS.
PAGB
Introduction 17
Greek and Roman Mythoi^ogy—
The Creation of the World 37
Deities of the Highest Order 41
Inferior Deities . '. 160
Demigods or Heroes . . . <. 243
Norsk and Old German Mythoi^ogy 353
Mythology and Religion of the Hindoos—
The Vedic Gods 368
The Brahmanic Gods 377
Mythology and Religion of Egypt 381
Index 393
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