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In this classic textbook, A.S. Murray, distinguished 19th century Scottish scholar and archeologist, provides a compelling summary of ancient mythologies and their key characters. Manual of Mythology gives a complete understanding of the ancient world and the stories that arose out of their cultures and beliefs. Murray describes in clear detail the major gods, goddesses, and stories of the Greek,...

THE CREATION OF THE WORLD IN thinking of the origin of the world in which they lived, the Greeks for the most part, it would appear, were satisfied with the explanation given by the poet Hesiod,—that in the beginning the world was a great shapeless mass or chaos out of which was fashioned first the spirit of love, Eros (Cupid), and the broad-chested earth, Gaea; then Erebos, darkness, and Nyx, night. From a union of the two latter sprang Æther, the clear sky, and Hemera, day. The earth, by virtue
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