Contents include:
- The Gods and Heroes (including Hermes, Medusa, Ariadne, Poseidon and many others)
- Tales of the Trojan War (including Achilleus, Hector, Odysseus and others)
- Tales of Thebes (Oedipus, Antigone, Laios, etc)
- Miscellaneous Tales (Apollo, Battle of the Frogs and the Mice, etc)
About the author (from Wikipedia):
George William Cox (1827 – 1902) was a British historian. He is known for resolving the several myths of Greece and the world into idealisations of solar phenomena. The French poet Stéphane Mallarmé has translated some of his works under the title of Les Dieux antiques (1880).
