TY - BOOK AU - Schwab, Gustav, AU - Marx, Olga, AU - Morwitz, Ernst, TI - Gods & heroes : : myths & epics of ancient Greece SN - 0394418344 AV - CIR BL 725 S33 1946 PY - 1946///] CY - [New York] Pantheon [1946] PB - Pantheon KW - Mythology, Classical KW - Juvenile literature KW - Mythology, Greek KW - Juvenile works. N1 - At head of title: Gustav Schwab ; Translation of: Die schönsten Sagen des klassischen Altertums; "Translated from the German text and its Greek sources by Olga Marx and Ernst Morwitz. Introduction by Werner Jaeger."--Page [5]; Includes bibliographical references; Introduction / Werner Jaeger -- Prometheus -- The Ages of Man -- Pyrrha and Deucalion -- Zues and Io -- Phaethon -- Europa -- Cadmus -- Pentheus -- Perseus -- Creusa and Ion -- Daedalus and Icarus -- The Story of the Argonauts -- Meleager and the Boar -- tantalus -- Pelops -- Niobe -- Saloneus -- Heracles -- Bellerophon -- Theseus -- The Story of King Oedipus -- The Seven Against Thebes -- The Epigoni -- Alcmaeon and the Necklace -- The Heradclidae -- Tales of Troy -- Index N2 - Schwab's retellings of stories about Prometheus, Zeus, Heracles, Odysseus, and other ancient Greek gods and heroes are based on close adherence to the original sources ER -