The Greek Myths: Vol.2 - Brossura

Graves, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140010270 ISBN 13: 9780140010275

Casa editrice: Penguin, 1990

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.

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Book by Graves Robert

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• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140010270
• ISBN 13: 9780140010275
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 416