Classical and world mythology.

Coming of the immortals / by Roger Lancelyn Green -- Zeus and his family ; Hera ; Poseidon / by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire -- Demeter's lost daughter / by Robert Graves -- Hephaestus ; and, The birth of Hermes / by Bernard Evslin, Dorothy Evslin, Ned Hoopes, and Robert Graves -- Aphrodite ; Birth of the twins / by Bernard Evslin, Dorothy Evslin and Ned Hoopes -- Ares and Athena / by Michael Gibson and Thomas Bulfinch -- Spider woman / by G. M. Mullett -- Izanagi and Izanami / by Anita Ganeri -- Creation: the nine worlds / by Mary Pope Osborne -- Mythic places -- Lost at sea / by Mary Pope Osborne -- The constellations / by Alice Low -- The great flood / by Olivia E. Coolidge -- How Shiva got his blue throat / by Anita Generi -- Quetzalcoatl ; The creation of humans / by Joan C. Verniero and Robin Fitzsimmons -- The man who married a star / by Martin Elbl and J. T. Winik -- The family tree -- Demeter and Persephone / by Penelope Proddow -- Oedipus / by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire -- The ungrateful daughter / by Sally Benson -- Phaeton and the chariot of the sun / by Geraldine McCaughrean -- The birth of Pan / by Mordicai Gerstein -- Glooscap and the baby / by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz -- Aladdin: a most faithful son / by Joan C. Verniero and Robin Fitzsimmons -- Women in Mythology -- The four tasks: Cupid and Psyche / by Mary Pope Osborne -- Pygmalion: lover of beauty / by Olivia E. Coolidge -- Pyramus and Thisbe / by Sally Benson -- Echo and Narcissus / by Heather Forest -- Atalanta's race / by Geraldine McCaughrean -- Frog and his two wives / by Ashley Bryan -- The toad-bridegroom / by Zong InSob -- What does woman want? / by Barbara Stanford and Gene Stanford -- Wings / by Jane Yolen -- Midas / by Thomas Bulfinch -- Prometheus / by Mollie McLean and Ann Wiseman -- Pandora / by Bernard Evslin, Dorothy Evslin and Ned Hoopes -- The boatman ; The smuggler ; and, Looking for the key / by Heather Forest -- A wolf and Little Daughter ; and, Ol' Gally Mander / by Virginia Hamilton and Nancy Van Laan -- The Trojan War -- Hercules / by Kathryn Lasky -- The story of Theseus / by William F. Russell -- The apple of discord / by Thomas Bulfinch -- The Trojan War: Paris and Helen / by Paul Fleischman -- The Trojan War: Odysseus / by Alice Low -- The Trojan War: Aeneas / by William F. Russell -- Beowulf / by Thomas Bulfinch -- Gassire's lute / by Leo Frobenius -- How war was ended / by Heather Forest -- Jason and the Golden Fleece / by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire -- Ulysses and the Sirens / by Bernard Evslin -- Perseus slays the Gorgon / by Sally Benson -- The taming of the sun / by Donna Rosenberg -- Dream journey / by Geraldine McCaughrean -- The Calydonian boar hunt / by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire -- Pegasus / by Jane Yolen -- Typhon ; The Hydra ; and, The Empusae / by Anne Roxwell -- The two hunchbacks / by Italo Calvino -- Gods, mortals, and monsters -- Zeus, Metis, and Athena / by Roger Lancelyn Green -- Arachne the spinner / by Geraldine McCaughrean -- The orders of Cagn / by Joan C. Verniero and Robin Fitzsimmons -- The children of the sun / by Donna Rosenberg -- Cu Chulainn / by Yvonne Carroll -- Aeneas visits the Lower World / by William F. Russell -- Orpheus, Eurydice, and Arion / by Michael Gibson -- The end of the Olympians / by Robert Graves -- The journey of Gilgamesh / by Joan C. Verniero and Robin Fitzsimmons -- Havamal / by E. O. G. Turville-Petre.