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

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Agamemnon murders his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease Artemis who, in turn, provides “good winds to sail to Troy”. Dig it out of the boxes in your basement sometime, under the term paper from freshman comp, and have a look over it. Like many of the other people who have reviewed this book, I first read Hamilton's book on mythology when I was quite young. Zeus defeating Cronos was told super briefly, compared to what experience Fry’s account so much detail is missing. 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.

To sum up the points in its favor: Hamilton does well on the three basic criteria (accessibility, credibility, extent of coverage) the writing is clear, she is commendably rigorous about sourcing, and there are no glaring gaps in the extent of coverage. It looks really cool and considering the other reviews my book wasn’t damaged at all and arrived it excellent shape! Her celebrated and bestselling books include Mythology, The Greek Way, The Roman Way, and The Echo of Greece. Cronus (Saturn), father of Zeus, learned from Gaia and Uranus that one of his own children would overthrow him as he did his own father.Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends that are the keystone of Western culture - the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. Hamilton traveled to Greece in 1957 to be made an honorary citizen of Athens and to see a performance in front of the Acropolis of one of her translations of Greek plays. I would like to give this book five stars for its really complete and fairly narrated Greek mythos, but since it leaves out the whole rest of the world (except as above), I can only give two stars at most.

May Poseidon thrust upon me an irrational desire to undertake coital alignment with a bovine beauty (a horny heifer/arousable angus/titillated toro, if you'd be so kind)! Reading this you get to understand the culture of the Greeks, what they believed in and the values of these stories.Seria apenas em 1923, após se retirar do cargo de diretora da Bryn Mawr School, e desafiada a escrever sobre os seus adorados clássicos, que Hamilton viria a ser reconhecida como uma das grandes classicistas. Yet it would be unfair not to consider it perfect for what it does, which explains that it continues to sell 80 years after its first publication: how many books can boast such an achievement? Her father began teaching her Latin when she was seven years old and soon added Greek, French, and German to her curriculum.

There are reasons for the re-invention of the Sigurd story that are not entirely pleasant, and the re-invention of that story as the Wagnerian Ring Saga in opera. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. We have two copies of Mythology in our house—one from high school and one that I picked up along the way from a relative who was downsizing. The truth is, she could’ve excluded the final 20 pages and sold this solely as ‘Greek Mythology’ and I may have given it 5 stars.Don't get me wrong though, I really enjoyed the book as a whole - especially the stunning artwork, as I'm a sucker for pretty pictures - but not gonna lie, I got confused by all the names and incest and relationships a lot. And I am one of those people who will flip back to the family tree or index pages to refresh my memory - which is probably one of the many reasons why it took me so long to read this.

Doutora honoris causa de várias universidades e devota dos ideais clássicos, Hamilton tornou-se, aos noventa anos de idade, cidadã honorária da cidade de Atenas. A great introduction to greek and roman mythology with reasoning behind why she decided to include (or not include) every section and story. Vívida nas descrições que faz, deixa perpassar a paixão que sente em cada linha que escreve, tormando a leitura dos seus livros dinâmica e entusiasmante. The second is that Hamilton shows an absolute lack of respect for the Norse Myths, offering up a paltry 20 pages that were carelessly tacked onto the rear end of this work as though she’d squeezed out all of her best Greek Myths and the Norse tales were just the left-over dregs, like the dags on an oxes ass!It is precisely the original stories I want to be told about or at least I want a thorough comparison!