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World mythology : an anthology of the great myths and epics

xxii, 613 pages : 24 cm This new edition of World Mythology offers 59 of the world's great myths from Greece and Rome, the Middle East, Northern Europe, the British Isles, the Far East and Pacific Islands, Africa, and the Americas Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-571) and index Purpose of myths -- Matriarchal society -- Academic perspectives on myths -- Greece and Rome: Greece: Creation of the Titans and the gods -- Ages of man -- Demeter and Persephone -- Flood cycle: Lycaon: Cause -- Flood: Punishment -- Deucalion and Pyrrha: Rebirth -- Labors and death of Heracles -- Iliad -- …