Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition

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Though her first book wasn't published until she was in her sixties, her work achieved great popular success. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. For more than seven decades readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the enchanting world of mythology -- from Odysseus's adventure-filled journey to the Norse god Odin's effort to postpone the final day of doom. I wouldn’t recommend Stephen’s Fry retelling over this, to me, it doesn’t serve as a replacement but more of a complement.

Não li nada que já não soubesse, mas li-o pela mão de uma verdadeira apaixonada, de uma comunicadora excelsa, de uma fantástica perita que abriu caminho a muitas outras mulheres no campo dos Estudos Clássicos. Dig it out of the boxes in your basement sometime, under the term paper from freshman comp, and have a look over it. A little naive maybe, however, given this and the irrevocably atrocious acts of each and every member of the Greek Pantheon, I suggest that there are, in fact, no Gods in Greek Mythology, only reflections of vastly more powerful versions of ourselves, unmasking and exposing all of our most unfavourable attributes. Bought for a present for my son who is really into Greek Mythology at the moment and, though perhaps aimed at older people than he, I'm sure that he will love the look of and information within this book! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Aside from that, we get a very superficial mention of the Norse myths that takes up maybe the last 5% of the book. In fact, I’ll just come out and say it, if you read the dull little paperback version, you’re an inferior human being, it is what it is. This book can be considered the best reference material for those interested in knowing more about mythology. I mean this in the sense that whatever your subjective idea of beauty is, that is the form in which the Gods should appear to you. There are Heracles 12 labours which were so super condensed (akin to a summary), portions of the Aeneid I felt it (mainly second half) and aspects of the Iliad section.

Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a perennial bestseller in its various available formats: hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, and e-book. You end up second-guessing yourself - maybe the classic status is causing you to be unduly deferential.

Her father began teaching her Latin when she was seven years old and soon added Greek, French and German to her curriculum.