# A handy dictionary of mythology

Author: Preston, Thomas

Genre: Mythology -- Dictionaries

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74485

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+handy+dictionary+of+mythology+Preston&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Besides confronting us at every turn in the museums and picture galleries, these deities and heroes are constantly mentioned by poets and portrayed by painters and sculptors, and they are used for the purpose of illustration in the literature of the day. Nothing is more common than to find the comic newspapers resorting to Mythology for subjects for their pictures; and quite recently _Punch_ has given us some delightful cartoons by Tenniel, which, apart from the admirable drawing, are intensely amusing to people who know enough of Mythology to see the drift of the artist. For example, there is a cartoon representing Æacus, Minos, and Rhadamanthus sitting in judgment on the unlucky electio...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-handy-dictionary-of-mythology-74485/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-handy-dictionary-of-mythology-74485/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-handy-dictionary-of-mythology-74485/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-handy-dictionary-of-mythology-74485/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-handy-dictionary-of-mythology-74485/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-handy-dictionary-of-mythology-74485/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-handy-dictionary-of-mythology-74485/chapters/7/index.md)