Foreword -- Beginning, part one: Out of chaos -- First order -- Second order -- Gaia's revenge -- Sickle -- Night and day, light and dark -- Ouranos gelded -- Erinyes, Gigantes, and Meliae -- From the foam -- Rhea -- Children of Rhea -- Switch -- Cretan child -- Oath of allegiance -- Cretan boy -- Oceanid and the potion -- Rebirth of the five -- Beginning, part two: Clash of the Titans -- Proliferation -- Muses -- Threesomes -- Spirits of air, Earth, and water -- Disposer supreme and judge of the Earth -- Third order -- Hestia -- Lottery -- Hades -- Poseidon -- Demeter -- Hera -- A new home -- Runt -- It's war -- Enchanted throne -- Lame one -- Hand of Aphrodite -- Wedding feast -- Food of the gods -- Bad Zeus -- Mother of all migraines -- Athena -- Metis within -- Seeking sanctuary -- Twins! -- Artemis -- Apollo -- Wrath of Hera -- Maia Maia -- Infant prodigy -- Apollo reads the signs -- Half brothers -- Twelfth god -- Olympians -- Toys of Zeus, part one: Prometheus -- Kneading and firing -- A reduced set -- A name is found -- Golden age -- Fennel stalk -- Gift of fire -- Punishments -- Gift -- Brothers -- When it's a jar -- Chest, the waters, and the bones of Gaia -- Death -- Prometheus bound -- Persephone and the chariot -- Pomegranate seeds -- Hermaphroditus and Silenus -- Cupid and Psyche -- Erotes -- Love, love, love -- Psyche -- Prophecy and abandonment -- Enchanted castle -- Voices, visions, and a visitor -- Sisters -- A drop of oil -- Alone -- Task of Aphrodite -- Union of love and soul -- Toys of Zeus, part two: Mortals -- Io -- Semen-soaked scarf -- Phaeton -- Son of the sun -- Father and sun -- Daybreak -- Drive -- Fallout -- Cadmus -- White bull -- Quest for Europa -- Oracle speaks -- Phocian games -- Water dragon -- Dragon's teeth -- Marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia -- Consigned to the dust -- Twice born -- Eagle lands -- Eagle's wife -- Manifestation -- Newest god -- Thirteen at table -- Beautiful and the damned: Angry goddesses -- Actaeon -- Erysichton -- Doctor and the crow -- Birth of medicine -- Crime and punishment -- Ixion -- Consequences -- Tantalus -- Sisyphus -- Brotherly love -- Sisyphean tasks -- Eagle -- Cheating death -- Life without death -- Burial rites -- Rolling the rock -- Hubris -- All tears -- Apollo and Marsyas: Puffed cheeks -- Competition -- Judgment -- Arachne -- Weaver -- Weave-off -- Reward -- More metamorphoses -- Nisus and Scylla -- Callisto -- Procne and Philomela -- Ganymede and the eagle -- Moon lovers -- Lailaps and Alopex Teumesios -- Endymion -- Eos and Tithonus -- Love at first sight -- Boon -- Be careful what you wish for -- Grasshopper -- Bloom of youth -- Hyacinthus -- Crocus and Smilax -- Aphrodite and Adonis -- Echo and Narcissus -- Tiresias -- Narcissus -- Echo -- Echolalia -- Echo and Narcissus -- Boy in the water -- Gods take pity -- Lovers -- Pyramus and Thisbe -- Galateas -- Acis and Galatea -- Galatea II -- Leucippos II, Daphne, and Apollo -- Galatea III and Pygmalion too -- Hero and Leander -- Arion and the dolphin -- Overboard -- Monument -- Philemon and Baucis, or hospitality rewarded -- Phrygia and the Gordian knot -- Midas -- Ugly stranger -- Goldfinger --- King Midas's Ears -- Appendices: The brothers, a sidebar -- Hope -- Giant leaps -- Feet and toes -- Afterword: Myth v. legend v. religion -- Greeks -- Location, location -- Sources ancient -- Sources modern -- Spelling the names -- Saying the names.