The Mythology of the Greeks and Romans

by

Carl Theophilus Odhner

Professor of Theology and Church History, Academy of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, Pa.

Edited by William Hyde Alden and William Whitehead

The Academy Book Room, Bryn Athyn, PA. U.S.A. 1927

Copyright, 1927, by The Academy Book Room Reprinted 1975, 200 copies Reprinted 1978, 500 copies

Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
  • The Origin of Mythology and Idolatry
  • The Most Ancient Church
  • The Ancient Church
  • Polytheism
  • Idolatry
• Greek and Roman Mythology
  • Chaos
  • Ouranos
  • The Titans
  • Chronos or Saturn
  • The Chronides
  • Hestia—Vesta
  • Zeus—Jupiter
  • Hera—Juno
  • Poseidon—Neptune
  • Demeter—Ceres
  • Hades—Pluto
  • Persephone—Proserpine
  • Ares—Mars.
  • Hebe—Juventas
  • Hephaistos—Vulcan
  • Hermes—Mercury
  • Phoebus Apollo
  • Pallas Athene—Minerva
  • Aphrodite—Venus Astarte
  • Eros—Cupid
• Greek and Roman Ideas of the Life After Death
  • A Note on Prometheus and Pandora
• Bibliography of C.T. Odhner's Writings on Mythology

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