This third book in the successful Brush Up series is a fun and informative review of classical mythology.
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Michael Macrone is the author of nine entertain-ing guides to literary and intellectual history. His specialties include the Shakespeare canon, classical writings, mythology, the Bible, and great ideas. He lives in San Francisco, California.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It's the Best!,
This review is from: By Jove! Brush Up Your Mythology (Paperback)
If you are looking for a quick review or a quick look into Mythology, this is the perfect book for you. It gives quick, concise accounts of mythology, from the beginning, Chaos which was the source of the first proper beings, to Pandora's box, the Muses, and Pegasus. This book helped my out so much better than any textbook that I've read. It's a wonderful reference book that every bookshelf should have!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Depends on what you were looking for...,
This review is from: By Jove! Brush Up Your Mythology (Paperback)
Not being familiar with Michael MacRone's(the author) work, I thought that this book would be your basic book of the ancient tales that the Romans would have spun. However, when I flipped through the pages of this book upon its arrival, I was sorely mistaken. This book does not have to do so much with the stories surrounding Zeus and the other Roman deities, but how ther culture has influence ours and the sayings and words derived from their language. If you look from it as a purely fun read though, it is filled with interesting facts but often it leaves you with more questions; Michael MacRone spends too much time trying to explain the myths in a logical way when it is quite obvious that with such a 'titanic'(thanks to MacRone) body of information and the different way that Romans looked upon life just cannot be explained fully and should just be cherished as they are. His 'witty' add-ins are quite off-putting to me, but you might enjoy them, his remarks are more like the ones of an extremely world-tired, snide, snickering person. All in all, it did not seem like he had much respect for what he was writing about, that is not a good launching off point to get others interested, sadly for MacRone. I would have given this 2 stars because of his inept way of trying to make a mountain into a molehole(I know it sounds strange), but between the snide comments and fallible explanations, there were some glimmers of the fabulous work from countless of Romans before our time.
5.0 out of 5 stars
very informative,
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This review is from: By Jove! Brush Up Your Mythology (Paperback)
It is a big help to everyones memory who had latin and or greek in his schooldays a long time ago and more. Especially in the last section THE PANTHEON has given me a clearer idea of the relationship among the gods.
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According to the poet Hesiod, a leading expert on such matters, the first "power" in the universe was a vast, dark void known in Greek as Chaos (from chaino, "to gape, yawn"). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fortunate Isles, Trojan War, Golden Age, Mount Olympus, Mount Parnassus, Black Sea, Homer's Iliad, John Milton, West Wind New!
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According to the poet Hesiod, a leading expert on such matters, the first "power" in the universe was a vast, dark void known in Greek as Chaos (from chaino, "to gape, yawn"). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fortunate Isles, Trojan War, Golden Age, Mount Olympus, Mount Parnassus, Black Sea, Homer's Iliad, John Milton, West Wind New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humor (Ben Jonson Series: No. 5) by Ben Jonson on page 188
- Thomas Hobbes: Critical Assessments (Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers) by Preston King on page 4
- The Trojan War (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Ancient World) by Craig C. Conant on page 93
- The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics) by Apuleius on page 49
- The Greek Myths: Complete Edition by Robert Graves in Front Matter
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- Literature Lover's Book Of Lists : Serious Trivia for the Bibliophile by Judie L. H. Strouf on page 277
- The Literature Teacher's Book Of Lists (J-B Ed: Book of Lists) by Judie L. H. Strouf on page 266
- Brush Up Your Mythology! by Michael Macrone in Back Flap
- Homeschooling: The Middle Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 8- to 12-Year-Old Child (Prima Home Learning Library) by Shari Henry on page 210
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