This unique work is the first comprehensive genealogical chart of virtually all of the named figures of Greek mythology that can be shown to be related. The product of more than 35 years of research, the book includes a 72-page continuous chart that links 3,673 named figures into a single "family tree" spanning 20 generations and an 80-page index that provides a citation to an authoritative ancient source for each relationship. The genealogy begins with Chaos and--based on works by Hesiod, Homer, Aeschylus, Pindar, Bacchylides, Herodotus, Euripides, Apollodorus, Pausanias, Diodorus Siculus, and scores of other ancient poets, playwrights, and writers--continues down through the Titans, the gods, legendary kings, and such well-known figures of literature as Odysseus, Jason, Antigone, and Helen of Troy, as well as hundreds of obscure figures, including their spouses, paramours, children, and descendants. The chart shows all of the known relationships--parental, marital, and extramarital--of each figure. In addition to furnishing a citation for each relationship, the index provides brief descriptive information and indicates the quadrant and page of the continuous chart where the relationship is depicted. A two-page master chart illustrates the relationships among the principal figures.

A Genealogical Chart of Greek Mythology

Jon O. Newman

Harold Newman

Religion & Spirituality

The University of North Carolina Press

"Benched" is a memoir unlike any written by a federal judge. Now in his forty-fifth year in the federal judiciary, Judge Newman writes candidly about what a judge really does, reckoning with the difficulty of deciding close cases, without voting personal or political preferences. "Benched" also outlines twenty proposals for improvements in the American system of justice, covering such diverse topics as police misconduct lawsuits, selection of juries, citizen standing to sue government officials, reviving the independent counsel, and death penalty sentencing. Finally, Benched is an account of the unusual life the author has been fortunate to live, enlivened by fascinating vignettes from his years as a prosecutor and his experiences in state and national government. Fortuitous opportunities enabled him to see the inner workings of the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court, and to be a United States attorney for five years, a federal trial judge for seven years, and now a federal appellate judge in his thirty-eighth year on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He's encountered presidents, senators, governors, and hundreds of judges from here and abroad, and an array of personalities in and out of court, the famous and the infamous, the impressive and the bizarre. He has also had time to compile the world's first complete genealogical chart of Greek mythology and, as a devoted fan, endured the ups and downs of the Boston Red Sox.

Benched: Abortion, Terrorists, Drones, Crooks, Supreme Court, Kennedy, Nixon, Demi Moore, and Other Tales from the Life of a Federal Judge

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William S. Hein & Co., Inc.

"Inferior Courts": The History of the Existing and Former Federal Trial and Appellate Courts of the United States, 1789-2024

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