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

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. As a preface, in the first half of the novel, I knew most of these stories, as I've read a longer account of those stories from Stephen Fry’s Mythology series which begins at the Beginning to Troy (so far). Niobe, daughter of Tantalus, disrespected the Goddess Leto by exclaiming to the people that they should worship and burn incense to her and not to the Goddess.

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.

Although the myths remain unchanged, the way that we think about them has evolved considerably over the last 150 years. They are my favourite, since they make between them almost a linear single story with cause-and-effect leading us from the creation of the world to its inevitable destruction. Well, I am just trying to be a gracious hospitable host allowing my foreigner friends happy during their visit. 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. John William Waterhouse, Echo and Narcissus, in which Echo (who can only echo what other people say) fails to save Narcissus from drowning himself while admiring his own wonderful visage.

Moreover, the one thing I expect at the very least from an encyclopedia of mythology is a good overview. The first is that Hamilton’s bias towards particular poets comes through too strongly at times and she can be quite opinionated.Praised throughout the world for its authority and lucidity, Mythology is Edith Hamilton's masterpiece--the standard by which all other books on mythology are measured. Primeiro pensei lê-lo como preparação para o curso, depois imaginei que lhe daria uso obrigatório na licenciatura, e a dada altura percebi que, até aos dias de hoje, nunca terminei um livro que fosse forçada a ler. 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. An easy to use contents page, lots of info on major and minor Greek mythology characters and even a very small section on Norse mythology at the back. I wouldn’t recommend Stephen’s Fry retelling over this, to me, it doesn’t serve as a replacement but more of a complement.

The main body of work is about the Greeks, added to by Roman mythology (which mostly is adapted Greek mythology if we're being honest).I declared August "History Month" and read, amongst various others, Bulfinch's Mythology of which I was quite disappointed. 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.