ABSTRACT
EVERY spot in Greece and in the Greek colonies had its local legend. Of these, many became so famous that they have been already considered, without regard to geographical order; but there remain many more, less well known because no great writer had handled them, or because the notable works in which they were treated have perished, or unimportant to the mythologist because they give no more than the genealogy of the local families, or the name of some imaginary hero supposed to have stood godfather to a neighbouring town. In dealing with the rest, I begin with the extreme north of the Greek world and pass southwards, afterwards sketching the mythology of the colonies.
