CHAPTER III. THE GODS OF EARTH 42 Conception of the World. Ceres (Demeter). Gæa (Ge). Bacchus (Dionysus). The Lesser Divinities of Earth. CHAPTER IV. THE GODS OF THE UNDERWORLD 47 The Underworld. Tartarus and the Elysian Fields. The Islands of the Blest. Pluto (Hades). Proserpina (Persephone). The Lesser Divinities of the Underworld. CHAPTER V. THE GODS OF THE WATERS 55 The Older Dynasty. The Younger Dynasty. The Lesser Divinities of the Waters. CHAPTER VI. THE ROMAN DIVINITIES 59 Gods Common to Greece and Italy. Italian Gods. CHAPTER VII. MYTHS OF THE GREAT DIVINITIES OF HEAVEN 64 Myths of Jupiter and Juno. Love Affairs of Jupiter. Io. Callisto. Europa. Semele. Ægina. Antiope. Jupiter, a Friend of Man. Juno's Best Gift. Myths of Minerva. Arachne. Myths of Mars. Mars and Diomede. Mars and Minerva. The Fortunes of Cadmus. Myths of Vulcan. Myths of Apollo. The Wanderings of Latona. Apollo, the Light Triumphant. Hyacinthus. Phaëthon. The Plague sent upon the Greeks before Troy. The Punishment of Niobe. The Lamentation for Linus. Æsculapius. Apollo in Exile. Lowell's Shepherd of King Admetus. Admetus and Alcestis. Apollo, the Musician. Apollo, Pan, and Midas. Shelley's Hymn of Pan. Marsyas. The Loves of Apollo. Daphne. Marpessa. Clytie. Myths of Diana. The Flight of Arethusa. Shelley's Arethusa. The Fate of Actæon. The Fortunes and Death of Orion. The Pleiads. Endymion. Myths of Venus. Adonis. Cupid and Psyche. Keats' Ode to Psyche. Atalanta's Race. Hero and Leander. Pygmalion and the Statue. Pyramus and Thisbe. Phaon. The Vengeance of Venus. Myths of Mercury. CHAPTER VIII. MYTHS OF THE GREAT DIVINITIES OF EARTH 152 Myths of Bacchus. The Wanderings of Bacchus. The Story of Acetes. The Choice of King Midas. CHAPTER IX. FROM THE EARTH TO THE UNDERWORLD 159 Myths of Ceres, Pluto, and Proserpine. The Rape of Proserpine. The Wanderings of Ceres. Triptolemus and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Orpheus and Eurydice. CHAPTER X. MYTHS OF NEPTUNE, RULER OF THE WATERS 169 Lord of the Sea. Lord of Streams and Fountains. Pelops and Hippodamia. CHAPTER XI. MYTHS OF THE LESSER DIVINITIES OF HEAVEN 172 Myths of Stars and Winds. Cephalus and Procris. Dobson's The Death of Procris. Ceyx and Halcyone. Aurora and Tithonus. Tennyson's Tithonus. Memnon. CHAPTER XII. MYTHS OF THE LESSER DIVINITIES OF EARTH, ETC. 181 Pan, and the Personification of Nature. Stedman's Pan in Wall Street. Other Lesser Gods of Earth. Echo and Narcissus. Echo, Pan, Lyde, and the Satyr. The Naiads. The Dryads, or Hamadryads. Erysichthon. Dryope. Rh[oe]cus. Pomona and Vertumnus. The Cranes of Ibycus.