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

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

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

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My copy of Odyssey (translated by Samuel Butler) does use archaic language and I can live with that. I know most of my real life friends read this in the 10th grade, but my class read The Odyssey only and I've always meant to get to this book but didn't until now.

This is not the fault of the book, it’s just the way these myths are, where there are loads of them that are not connected to a myth that is part of bigger story, for example one of the families like the House of Thebes.Thus, I've tried to evaluate each book on its own particular merits, and also give some idea of how it stacks up relative to the others. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. This is a summary, a boiling-down, a sugar-coating of a topic that frankly could have been presented in a much more academic, dry manner. From the extracts the textual content seems the same but where it seems to differ are the illustrations and the position of the Contents in the book. Well, the first few stories were a bit tedious but it was a foundation that helped me understand the other tales so it wasn’t much of a big deal to me.

And it all came across a little bit like personality types in the decades before Meyers-Briggs and Enneagram would take the kids of the 80s by storm. Both a reference text for scholars of all ages and a book to simply enjoy, Mythology is a classic not to be missed. What's more (displaying my ignorance here) I was confused over the title of the play, and some of the main protagonists of the play, the Furies.More often than not she shares with us the particular poet’s version she has taken inspiration from in her retelling and any others she has borrowed from as supplementation. 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. As she has said herself in some interviews, her passion was for the Greeks which definitely shows in this book and is my main criticism. Hamilton, while not indulging in graphic details, does not shy away from some of the harsher aspects of these stories and I found myself making faces while listening. One could add many more but overall in this book one can see clearly the basis of a civilisation that was destined to become great and provide Europe with its mind and soul.

While I was pleased to see that Hamilton had included the Volsunga saga in the chapter about Norse mythology (in many books it is replaced by the Nibelungenlied which was penned much later), she dismissed the saga by saying that the story is so well-known thanks to the Nibelungenlied that the original can be told briefly and THAT is an absolute no-go for me. Nevertheless, none of the Olympians could be considered Angels and they’ve all got blood on their hands by the closing of this book.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. Her father began teaching her Latin when she was seven years old and soon added Greek, French and German to her curriculum. I know this is an unfair comparison, but earlier in the month I had been reading Oscar Wilde's stories for children, as well as some of Kipling's poetry, and I kept waiting for Hamilton to dazzle me, even just a little bit.

Of those two, Hamilton is better at identifying the mainly Greek sources she relied on - it's worth reading her Introduction as to why she preferred gifted Greeks who believed in their gods, heroes and myths to the poetic Romans who rehashed them for "literary" purposes. In the island where I grew up, there was a boy named Apollo who was naked the whole day that I could see his wang dangling while we played and he oftentimes cried when he lost in our games and I thought that, while reading this book, he did not even have a slight semblance of the Greek god he was named after. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Edith Hamilton (1868-1963) was born of American parents in Dresden, Germany, and grew up in Indiana. Although the myths remain unchanged, the way that we think about them has evolved considerably over the last 150 years.It's at once a primer on world mythology and a pretty exhausting compendium of pretty much any myth or godlike figure you'd want to know about (with an emphasis on western mythologies, which is a bit of a shame; I would have liked to see what Hamilton would have had to say about eastern myths, or African ones). I'm not qualified to give a scholarly opinion on the book, but I would liked to have read more on the Norse Gods. This book can be considered the best reference material for those interested in knowing more about mythology.



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