Robert Graves, classicist, poet and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience. He demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek mythology is 'no more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons'. All the scattered elements of each myth are assembled into a harmonious narrative, and many variants are recorded which may help to determine its ritual or historical meaning. Full indexes and references to the classical sources make the book as valuable to the scholar as the general reader. And a full commentary on each myth interprets the classical version in the light of contemporary archaeological and anthropological knowledge.
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LAIUS, son of Labdacus, married Iocaste, and ruled over Thebes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sepulchral island, sixteen matrons, brazen urn, chariot crash, sacred king, lion pelt, funeral games, ocean stream Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Diodorus Siculus, Apollonius Rhodius, Virgil's Aeneid, Dictys Cretensis, Black Sea, Homer's Iliad, Asia Minor, Olympian Odes, Delphic Oracle, Trojan War, Nemean Odes, Natural History, Valerius Flaccus, Ptolemy Hephaestionos, Euripides's Orestes, Great Ajax, Homer's Odyssey, Little Ajax, New Year, Pythian Odes, White Goddess, Isthmian Odes, Mount Ida, Trachinian Women, Mother Earth New!
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LAIUS, son of Labdacus, married Iocaste, and ruled over Thebes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sepulchral island, sixteen matrons, brazen urn, chariot crash, sacred king, lion pelt, funeral games, ocean stream Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Diodorus Siculus, Apollonius Rhodius, Virgil's Aeneid, Dictys Cretensis, Black Sea, Homer's Iliad, Asia Minor, Olympian Odes, Delphic Oracle, Trojan War, Nemean Odes, Natural History, Valerius Flaccus, Ptolemy Hephaestionos, Euripides's Orestes, Great Ajax, Homer's Odyssey, Little Ajax, New Year, Pythian Odes, White Goddess, Isthmian Odes, Mount Ida, Trachinian Women, Mother Earth New!
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- The Nature of the Gods (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Tullius Cicero on 5 pages
- The Trojan Women (Plays for Performance Series) by Nicholas Rudall on 4 pages
- The Phoenician Women (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Euripides on page 4, page 11, and page 257
- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on page 11, and page 110
- Prometheus Bound (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Aeschylus on page 133, and page 142
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- Pagan Every Day: Finding the Extraordinary in Our Ordinary Lives by Barbara Ardinger on 4 pages
- On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life by Dennis J. Schmidt in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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