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I believe, deep in my heart, that everyone who has attended high school in the past twenty to thirty years or so (in the United States, at least) owned a ratty, most likely used copy of this work at one time or another. You’ll walk away from reading Hamilton’s ‘Mythology’ with a stronger appreciation for the term ‘Greek Tragedy’. I found this helpful to help me continue to get a handle on how this vast subject is connected to Ancient History and Human History; as I was listening to it I had so many moments where small scraps made a few more things a little bit clearer for me. 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.
This story, along with a few others, got me wondering why no one has created any horror adaptations of the Greek Myths. I'm not qualified to give a scholarly opinion on the book, but I would liked to have read more on the Norse Gods.Greek, Roman and Norse mythologies are so old because they have been in existence thousands and thousands of years even before Christ was born. Among many other things, she was partly responsible for the Fall of Troy and wholly responsible for sending Hercules insane, resulting in the murder of his wife and children. 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. What I did, was read Fry’s retelling first (containing more in-depth retellings of stories in the first half of this novel), this novel and I will eventually read the primary texts. I was enjoying this so much that sometimes I wished more was explained on why different versions of the same myth exist, but liked how Edith Hamilton is not shy of making it clear which versions she prefers.
Her celebrated and bestselling books include Mythology, The Greek Way, The Roman Way, and The Echo of Greece. Her father had begun teaching her Latin, then French, German, and Greek when she was only 7 years old which probably was a factor in her interests later and her great scholarly success. 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. This 75th anniversary edition of a classic bestseller is stunningly illustrated and designed to enchant fans of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology at all ages. Some of the tales have a really insidious tone that I think could make for some chilling cinematics.Hamilton's brilliant writing, the cover, the layout, the printing, the illustrations, and everything else are done in an excellent manner. Only, it's also one of those books that really works better as a reference than as a book you sit down and read from cover to cover. May I dream a most splendid dream in which my lips meet those of the blessed Aphrodite herself, only to awaken and find, in horror, that I am merely tongue-wrestling the three heads of Cerberus!
Como los demás, el mío también llego con un poco de daño en la portada, tiene unas pocas manchas, y las orillas están un poco dañadas, pero nada que opaque la portada o que haya llegado al interior de las páginas.
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. There is a lot of information which I preferred to read a little at a time which took almost a year to finish.
She regarded as the high point of her life a 1957 ceremony in which King Paul of Greece named her an honorary citizen of Athens.She never completed her doctoral degree but she did become an "inspiring and respected head of the school for twenty six years" (bringing new ideas to an old system).
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