Originally published: London, England : Michael Joseph, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- The beginning, part one: Out of chaos -- The first order -- The second order -- Gaia's revenge -- The sickle -- Night and day, light and dark -- Ouranos gelded -- Erinyes, Gigantes, and Meliae -- From the foam -- Rhea -- The children of Rhea -- The switch -- The Cretan child -- The oath of allegiance -- The Cretan boy -- The oceanid and the potion -- Rebirth of the five -- The beginning, part two: Clash of the Titans -- The proliferation -- The Muses -- Threesomes -- Spirits of air, Earth, and water -- Disposer supreme and judge of the Earth -- The third order -- Hestia -- The lottery -- Hades -- Poseidon -- Demeter -- Hera -- A new home -- The runt -- It's war -- The enchanted throne -- The lame one -- The hand of Aphrodite -- The wedding feast -- Food of the gods -- Bad Zeus -- The mother of all migraines -- Athena -- Metis within -- Seeking sanctuary -- Twins! -- Artemis -- Apollo -- The wrath of Hera -- Maia Maia -- The infant prodigy -- Half brothers -- The twelfth god -- The Olympians -- The toys of Zeus, part one: Prometheus -- Kneading and firing -- A reduced set -- A name is found -- The golden age -- The fennel stalk -- The gift of fire -- The punishments -- The gift -- The brothers -- When it's a jar -- The chest, the waters, and the bones of Gaia -- Death -- Prometheus bound -- Persephone and the chariot -- The pomegranate seeds -- Hermaphroditus and Silenus -- Cupid and Psyche -- Erotes -- Love, love, love -- Psyche -- Prophecy and abandonment -- The enchanted castle -- Voices, visions, and a visitor -- Sisters -- A drop of oil -- Alone -- The task of Aphrodite -- The union of love and soul -- The toys of Zeus, part two: Mortals -- Io -- The semen-soaked scarf -- Phaeton -- The son of the sun -- Father and sun -- Daybreak -- The drive -- The fallout -- Cadmus -- The white bull -- The quest for Europa -- The oracle speaks -- The Phocian games -- The water dragon -- The dragon's teeth -- The marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia -- Cosigned to the dust -- Twice born -- The eagle lands -- The eagle's wife -- The manifestation -- The newest god -- Thirteen at the table -- The beautiful and the damned: Angry goddesses -- Actaeon -- Erysichton -- The doctor and the crow -- The birth of medicine -- Crime and punishment -- Ixion -- Consequences -- Tantalus -- Sisyphus -- Brotherly love -- Sisyphean tasks -- The eagle -- Cheating death -- Life without death -- Burial rites -- Rolling the rock -- Hubris -- All tears -- Apollo and Marsyas: Puffed cheeks -- The competition -- Judgment -- Arachne -- The weaver -- The weave-off -- The 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 and first sight -- The boon -- Be careful what you wish for -- The grasshopper -- The bloom of youth -- Hyacinthus -- Crocus and Smilax -- Aphrodite and Adonis -- Echo and Narcissus -- Tiresias -- Narcissus -- Echo -- Echolaila -- Echo and Narcissus -- The boy in the water -- The 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 -- The monument -- Philemon and Baucis, or hospitality rewarded -- Phrygia and the Gordian knot -- Midas -- The ugly stranger -- Goldfinger --- King Midas's Ears -- Appendices: The brothers, a sidebar -- Hope -- Giant leaps -- Feet and toes -- Afterword.