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World mythology : an anthology of the great myths and epics

"Third edition"--Cover 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 -- Odyssey -- Rome: Romulus and Remus -- Aeneid. Middle East: Babylonia: Enuma elish -- Egypt: Osiris, Isis, and Horus -- Hittite: Telepinu -- Sumer/Babylonia: Gilgamesh. Northern Europe: Creation, death, and rebi…