title: The Dictionary of Classical Mythology: The Indispensable Guide for All Students and Readers of Ancient and Modern Literature and Art
author: John Edward Zimmerman
description: "A knowledge of classical mythology is indispensable in understanding and appreciating much of the great literature, sculpture, and painting of both the ancients and the moderns. Unless we know the marvelous stories of the deities and heroes of the ancients, their great literature and art as much later work down to the present day will remain unintelligible. Through the centuries from Chaucer, Spencer, Shakespeare, and Milton on, not only the major writers but also hundreds of lesser writers have retold the old tales or used them as a point of departure for new interpretations in terms of contemporary problems and psychology."--From author's Introduction
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  Modern Mythology  
  
  
    
  
  
  [MODERN MYTHOLOGY](Modern_Mythology_split_003.html#filepos20103)
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [DEDICATION  
  
  
    
  [INTRODUCTION  
  
  
    
  [REGENT MYTHOLOGY
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  [Mythology in 1860-1880  
  
  
    
  [Autobiographical  
  
  
    
  [The Ugly Scars  
  
  
    
  [My Criticism of Mr. Max Müller  
  
  
    
  [Success of Anthropological Method  
  
  
    
  [Mr. Max Müller's Reply
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [THE STORY OF DAPHNE
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  [Mr. Max Müller's Method in Controversy  
  
  
    
  [Tuna and Daphne  
  
  
    
  [Criticism of Tuna and Daphne  
  
  
    
  [The Explanation  
  
  
    
  [Disease of Language and Folk-etymology  
  
  
    
  [Mannhardt on Daphne
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [THE QUESTION OF ALLIES
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  [Athanasius  
  
  
    
  [Italian Critics  
  
  
    
  [A Dutch Defender  
  
  
    
  [Reply  
  
  
    
  ['Braves Gens'  
  
  
    
  [Professor Tiele on Our Merits  
  
  
    
  [Destruction and Construction  
  
  
    
  [Allies or Not?  
  
  
    
  [Our Errors  
  
  
    
  [Uses of Philology  
  
  
    
  [Personal Controversy  
  
  
    
  [The Story of Cronos  
  
  
    
  [Professor Tiele on 