Mythology
Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition
$29.98
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2013
Summary
Edith Hamilton’s MYTHOLOGY succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture - the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present.
We meet the Greek gods on Olympus and Norse gods in Valhalla. We follow the drama of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus. We hear the tales of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Cupid and Psyche, and King Midas. W…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316223331 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316223336 |
| Author: | Edith Hamilton, Jim Tierney |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Back Bay Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 75th |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2013 |
| Weight: | 418g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 142mm x 34mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“Edith Hamilton retells the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths with a sure taste and scholarship that help to restore their quality as perennial and refreshing fables about human nature, including our own.”–The New Yorker
“No one in modern times has shown us more vividly than Edith Hamilton ‘the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.’ Filtering the golden essence from the mass of classical literature, she proved how applicable to our daily lives are the humor and wisdom of more than 2,000 years ago.”–New York Times
About The Author
Edith Hamilton
Edith Hamilton (1868-1963) was born of American parents in Dresden, Germany, and grew up in Indiana. Through the first quarter of the twentieth century she was the headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. Upon retiring, she began to write about the civilizations of the ancient world and soon gained world renown as a classicist. Her celebrated and bestselling books include Mythology, The Greek Way, The Roman Way, and The Echo of Greece. 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.
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