Myth Workbook

Posted below are readings and practice assignments from a Classical Mythology Workbook.

1. The Muses.

2. The Creation of the World and the Earliest Deities.

3. The Olympian Deities, Part 1: The Children of Cronus and Rhea.

Zeus (Jupiter), Hera (Juno), Poseidon (Neptune), Demeter (Ceres) and Persephone (Proserpina), Hades (Pluto), Hestia (Vesta).

4. The Olympian Deities, Part 2: The Children of Zeus.

Athena (Minerva), Apollo (Apollo, Phoebus Apollo) and Artemis (Diana), Aphrodite (Venus), Hermes (Mercury), Ares (Mars), Hephaestus (Vulcan), Dionysus (Bacchus, Liber).

5. Other Deities:

Asclepius (Aesculapius), Eileithyia, Eos (Aurora), Eris (Discordia), Ganymede, Hebe, Hecate, Helius, Hypnos, Janus, Nemesis, Nike, Pan, Selene.

6. The Gods in Love

7. Daring Adventures

8. Perseus

9. Heracles (Hercules)

10. Jason and the Argonauts

11. Theseus

12. Victims of Olympian Wrath

13. The House of Atreus

14. Thebes and Oedipus

15. Mortal Love and Metamorphosis

16. The House of Troy and the Trojan War

17. Odysseus

18. Aeneas

19. The Kings of Rome