CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I IN THE BEGINNING

Chapter One PARENTS AND CHILDREN

Thetis and Achilles Hera and Hephaistos Orion and Oenopion Theseus and Hippolytus Osiris, Isis and Horus The Story of Poia

Chapter Two SIBLINGS

Cain and Abel Ares and Hephaistos Romulus and Remus Antigone

Chapter Three THE FAMILY INHERITANCE

The Children of the Wind The House of Thebes The House of Atreus

PART II BECOMING AN INDIVIDUAL

Chapter One LEAVING HOME

Adam and Eve The Buddha's Departure Peredur the Son of Evrawc

Chapter Two FIGHTING FOR AUTONOMY

Siegfried The Fair Unknown Gilgamesh and the Tree of Life

Chapter Three THE QUEST FOR MEANING

Vainamoinen and the Talisman Parsifal and the Grail Perseus

PART III LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS

Chapter One PASSION AND REJECTION

Echo and Narcissus Cybele and Attis Samson and Delilah The Enchantment of Merlin

Chapter Two THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE

The Marriage of Zeus and Hera Arthur and Guinevere

Chapter Three MARRIAGE

Gerda and Frey Nyneve's Transformation Alcestis and Admetus Odysseus and Penelope

PART IV POSITION AND POWER

Chapter One FINDING A VOCATION

Lugh A Myth of Two Brothers Phaëthon and the Sun-chariot

Chapter Two GREED AND AMBITION

Arachne The Ring of Polycrates King Midas The Corruption of Andvari

Chapter Three RESPONSIBILITY

King Minos and the Bull King Arthur's Peacetime Army The Judgement of Solomon

PART V RITES OF PASSAGE

Chapter One SEPARATION, LOSS AND SUFFERING

Job's Trials Orpheus and Eurydice Chiron the Centaur

Chapter Two THE SPIRITUAL QUEST

The Fortunes of Dr Faustus The Buddha's Enlightenment Parsifal

Chapter Three THE FINAL JOURNEY

Maui and the Death Goddess Er Among the Dead Indra and the Parade of Ants

Bibliography and Further Reading Index Acknowledgements