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Greek Gods in Love
Timeless love tales –
lively, witty, entertaining
by Barbara Stacy
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ISBN 978-0-9773703-1-3
Paperback, 175 pages, 8.5"x11" |
The glittering mythology resonates with Eros, love in all its astounding variety –
devotional, perfidious, sunny, dark, frenzied, serene, lusty, uncanny, earthy,
twisty, and sometimes hilarious. We relish these tales in all their splendor
and antic humor, and offer an inspired storyteller’s fresh version of the old, old mythical magic.
Above them all reigned Zeus. The ancients enjoyed his constant adultery, launched after a
300-year honeymoon with his sister-wife Hera. His affairs were often weird and fanciful,
an equal opportunity seducer among goddesses, nymphs and mortals.
Lavishly illustrated with 190 designs drawn from ancient Greek art.
Visual delights abound. Divinely priced at $15.95
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Preface
ZEUS
Most Glorious, Most Great
Zeus and Hera
Rulers of Mount Olympus, in hearts abiding
The Olympic Games of Zeus
The Olympic Games of Hera
Zeus and Mnemosyne
From Memory, the gift of language
Of the Muses we sing
Zeus and Io
Now you see her, now you don’t
Love shook my heart
Zeus and Europa
A flower-scented bull, crooning low
Sacred bulls
Zeus and Semele
Fatal wish, fatal promise
Zeus and Leto
A rocky road to glorious motherhood
Leto begs Delos for welcome
Zeus and Callisto
Two bears flung skyward
Zeus and Ganymede
Soaring on eagle’s wings, a Trojan prince
Curse of the cricket
Ganymede, handsomest of mortals
Come to me here from Crete
Zeus and Leda
From feathery violence, great events
Leda and the Swan
Don’t believe freaky stories, Helen advises
Zeus and Danaë
All that glitters
Labor pains a splitting headache
GODS, DEMIGODS, NATURE SPIRITS
Eros and Psyche
Passion and Soul, happiest of unions
Ruthless Eros
Eros, fairest among the deathless gods
Whoever judges not Eros to be mighty
Aphrodite and Adonis
Death and rebirth, myrrh and wind flowers
Sex for sale
Glittering-minded deathless Aphrodite
Hephaestus and Aphrodite
The odd couple
Gifts for gods and mortals
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Apollo and Daphne
Wings of love, wings of fear
Apollo and Cassandra
Believe me! Believe me!
The triumph of Achilles
Hades and Persephone and Demeter
The eternal return
Kleis
Poseidon and Amphitrite
Nuptials among the dolphins
Gemini twins rescue mariners
Poseidon and Lovers
Oddities abounding
Ancient ecologists
Orpheus and Eurydice
In the realm of silence and uncreated things
Music, feelings of happiness
Dionysus and the Maenads
The wine god and wild, wild women
From wanton to virgin, a pretty good trick
Selene and Endymion
Moon madness
Winged spirits of the clouds
Hermaphroditus and Salmacis
One body, two genders
Mischief
Ceyx and Halcyone
Love that calms the winds
Fair wind, ill wind
Echo and Narcissus
She loved him and he loved him
The quest of the golden girl
Titania and Oberon
O, woe, episode with an ass
A born thief
Scylla and Glaucus
Half man, half fish; half woman, half dogs
Circe’s torment
Leap for love?
IMMORTAL LOVE STORIES
Pygmalion and Galatea
Strange bedfellows
There is no great genius
Escapees from the golden box
Baucis and Philemon
Abiding love
Some say horsemen
We shall meet
GREEK GODS, ROMAN COUNTERPARTS
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