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JEWELS FROM THE WESTERN CIVILIZATIONGEORGE GROTE'SHISTORY OF GREECE FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE CLOSE OF THE GENERATION CONTEMPORARY WITH ALEXANDER THE GREATVOLUME ILEGENDARY GREECE.FROM THE GODS AND HEROES TO THE FUNDATIONS OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES (776 BC)1. LEGENDS RESPECTING THE GODS2. LEGENDS RELATING TO HEROES AND MEN3. LEGEND OF THE IAPETIDS4. HEROIC LEGENDS. GENEALOGY OF ARGOS 5. DEUCALION, HELLEN, AND SONS OF HELLEN 6. THE AEOLIDS, OR SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF AEOLUS7. THE PELOPIDS8. LACONIAN AND MESSENIAN GENEALOGIES9. ARCADIAN GENEALOGY10. EACUS AND HIS DESCENDANTS: AEGINA, SALAMIS, AND PITHIA11. ATTIC LEGENDS AND GENEALOGIES12. CRETAN LEGENDS. MINOS AND HIS FAMILY 13. ARGONAUTIC EXPEDITION14. LEGENDS OF THEBES15. LEGEND OF TROY16. GREEK MYTHS AS UNDERSTOOD, FELT AND INTERPRETED BY THE GREEKS THEMSELVES17. PRE-GRECIAN MYTHICAL VEIN COMPARED WITH THAT OF MODERN EUROPE 18. PERIOD OF INTERMEDIATE DARKNESS BEFORE THE DAWN OF HISTORICAL GREECE 19. APPLICATION OF CHRONOLOGY TO GRECIAN LEGEND20. STATE OF SOCIETY AND MANNERS AS EXHIBITED IN GRECIAN LEGEND21. GRECIAN EPIC. HOMERIC POEMS