The Heroes of the Greeks

London: Thames and Hudson. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1959). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Spine faded. Lacking the dust-jacket.; First English edition. xxiv, 439, [1 (blank)] pages + 76 illustrations on plate leaves. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, gilt publisher's emblem on front board. Page dimensions: 216 x 138mm. Text in English, translated from German by H. J. Rose. Karoly Kerenyi (1897-1973) was an Hungarian scholar of Greek mythology. Contents: List of Plates; Preface; Introduction; Book One - Kadmos and Harmonia; The Theban Dioskuroi; Danaos and his Daughters; Perseus; Tantalos; Pelops and Hippodameia; Salmoneus, Melanippe and Tyro; Sisyphos and Bellerophontes; Phixos and Helle; Oidipus; The Spartan Dioskuroi and their Cousins; Meleagros and Atalante; Book Two: Herakles: I. The Theban Tales: Stories of Herakles' Ancestry; The Hero's Birth; The Tales of his Youth; II. The Twelve Labours: The Nemean Lion; The Hyrda of Lerna; The Hind of Keryneia; The Boar of Erymanthos; The Birds of Lake Stymphalos; The Stabloe of Augeias; The Horses of the Thracian Diomedes; The Bull of Minos; The Girdle of the Queen of the Amazons; The Cattle of Geryoneus; The Apples of the Hesperides; The Hound of Hades; III. Deeds and Sufferings after the Twelve Labours: Kallinikos; The Madman; The Sinner; The Servant of Women; The Rescuer of Hera and of Deianeira; The End of Herakles' Earthly Life; Book Three: Kekrops, Erechtheus and Theseus; Jason and Medeia; Orpheus and Eurydike; Tereus, Eumolpus and Kephalos; Amphiaraos and the Heroes of the Theban War; Atreus and his Dynasty; The Prelude to the Trojan War; The Heroes of the Trojan War; Iphigeneia and her Brother and Sisters; Telephos; Protesilaos and Laodameia; Achilles and the Aftermath of the Trojan War; Genealogies; Sources; Index. .