The Gods of Old and the Story That They Tell
T. Fisher Unwin: London, 1899. Large 8vo. bound in red cloth stamped in gold with red leather spine and corner tips. Top edge gilt. 458 pp. Corners a little bumped. Some wear at top and bottom of spine. Former owner's initials on title page. A little light foxing to prelims. Overall a tight, clean copy. Item #800
Table of Contents: Theogony, Chaos to Hemera - Myths; The "Unus Vultus" of Nature; "Quisquis Fuit Ille Deorum", "Let There Be Light"; The Oneness of Our Universe; Theogony, Gaea, Uranus, their offpsring - Myths; "Without Form, and Void". In Formal Chains; Molecular Matter; Chemical Force; Great Physical Forces; The Fixed Cut-Off"; "Concordia Mundi"; Toilers of the Night; Theogony, Nox and her offspring; World Building; Theogony, Pontus, Gaea, their offspring - Myths; The Luminous Past; The Birth-Place, Birth, and Coming of the Sea; The Rivers of the Sea; Thaumaturgy;"Iri, Decus Coell": The Pirates of the Air; THe Keeper and the Keep; The Gray from BIrth; The Light that Failed"; The Missing Garment; The Winged Steed; How the Mountains Were "Lifted"; The Rock of Ages; The Heat and Darkness of Other Days; "Hydra Saevior Intus Habit Sedem"; Titanic Ties; Oceanus, the Tie of Waters; Hyperion, the Tie of Worlds; Crius, the Tie of Order; The Constant and the Dawn; . . . .(WHEW, I am running out of patience) . . . Theogony: Kronos, and his Offspring -Myths; The Curdled Spume of Ages" Theogony, Iapetus and his offspring - Myths; "Too High Born to be Property'd" The World's Wheel; The Metaphysics of Mythology; The Measure and the Foil of Mind; Wrestling with their Fate; Myths - The War of the Titans; the Battle of the Giants, The Struggle of Typhoeus; Heat versus Life; The Trap Rocks versus Life; The Volcano versus Life.
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