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The Greek Myths by Robert Graves

“Not for over a century, since Smith’s Dictionary of Classical Mythology first appeared, has the attempt been made to provide for the English reader a complete ‘mythology’, in the sense of a retelling in modern terms of the Greek tales of Gods and heroes. In the two volumes of this book Robert Graves, whose combination of classical scholarship and anthropological competence has already been so brilliantly demonstrated in The White Goddess and Hercules, My Shipmate, and the other novels, supplies the need. In nearly two hundred sections, it covers the Creation myths, the legends of the birth and lives of the great Olympians, the Theseus, Oedipus, and Heracles cycles, the Argonaut voyage, the tale of Troy, and much else. All the scattered elements of each myth have been assembled into a harmonious narrative, and many variants are recorded which may help to determine its ritual or historical meaning. Full references to the classical sources, and copious indices, make the book as valuable to the scholar as to the general reader; and a full commentary to each myth explains and interprets the classical version in the light of today’s archaeological and anthropological knowledge.”

The text of this edition follows that of the 1960 edition except for the deletion of Graves’ source notes.

Features;

• Folio Society Ninth Printing No. 924
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2001
• Quarter Brown Buckram with Printed Paper Sides Hardback, 700 pp
• B/w Illustrations by Grahame Baker Endpaper maps of the Ancient Mediterranean and Ancient Greece.
• Size 230 x 150mm, 1.9kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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