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The Greek Myths: Complete Edition (1955)

by Robert Graves

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Series: The Greek Myths (1-2)

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Including many of the greatest stories ever told - the labours of Hercules, the voyage of the Argonauts, Theseus and the minotaur, Midas and his golden touch, the Trojan War and Odysseus's journey home - Robert Graves's superb and comprehensive retelling of the Greek myths for a modern audience has been regarded for over fifty years as the definitive version. With a novelist's skill and a poet's eye, Graves draws on the entire canon of ancient literature, bringing together all the elements of every myth into one epic and unforgettable story. Ideal for the first time reader, it can be read as a single, continuous narrative, while full commentaries, with cross-references, interpretations, variants and explanations, as well as a comprehensive index of names, make it equally valuable as a work of scholarly reference for anyone seeking an authoritative and detailed account of the gods, heroes and extraordinary events that provide the bedrock of Western literature. The result is a classic among classics, a treasure trove of extraordinary tales and a masterful work of literature in its own right.… (more)
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Graves interpretations are bizarre. The text itself is alright, but tries to capture too many variant myths in one place.
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  jhylton | Mar 23, 2023 |
A fancy edition that loses much of its value (to me, anyway) through the deletion of Graves' source notes.
  lidaskoteina | Feb 26, 2023 |
12/1/22
  laplantelibrary | Dec 1, 2022 |
This is a reference book more than a short story collection. If you want entertainment, look elsewhere. If you want research and philosophy on the myths this book might be up your ally. Graves writing is good, but very dry.

NOTE: This is not a comic book nor is this for kids. Yes the guy who wrote Percy Jackson did the introduction, but this is way above that reading level. This book would be perfect for a college class since he doesn't cut out the adult situations and he compares this with other myths and gives some historical background and sites everything. ( )
  Ghost_Boy | Aug 25, 2022 |
2 v. ( )
  ME_Dictionary | Mar 19, 2020 |
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Graves, Robertprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Baker, GrahameIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gómez Parro, EstherTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
García Gual, CarlosForewordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gómez Parro, EstherTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Macdonald, RossCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
McLeish, KennethIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Riordan, RickIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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The medieval emissaries of the Catholic Church brought to Great Britain, in addition to the whole corpus of sacred history, a Continental university system based on the Greek and Latin Classics. (From the Introduction)
Since revising The Greek Myths in 1958, I have had second thoughts about the drunken god Dionysus, about the Centaurs with their contradictory reputation for wisdom and misdemeanour, and about the nature of divine ambrosia and nectar. (From the Foreword)
In the beginning, Eurynome, the Goddess of All Things, rose naked from Chaos, but found nothing substantial for her feet to rest upon, and therefore divided the sea from the sky, dancing lonely upon its waves.
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Including many of the greatest stories ever told - the labours of Hercules, the voyage of the Argonauts, Theseus and the minotaur, Midas and his golden touch, the Trojan War and Odysseus's journey home - Robert Graves's superb and comprehensive retelling of the Greek myths for a modern audience has been regarded for over fifty years as the definitive version. With a novelist's skill and a poet's eye, Graves draws on the entire canon of ancient literature, bringing together all the elements of every myth into one epic and unforgettable story. Ideal for the first time reader, it can be read as a single, continuous narrative, while full commentaries, with cross-references, interpretations, variants and explanations, as well as a comprehensive index of names, make it equally valuable as a work of scholarly reference for anyone seeking an authoritative and detailed account of the gods, heroes and extraordinary events that provide the bedrock of Western literature. The result is a classic among classics, a treasure trove of extraordinary tales and a masterful work of literature in its own right.

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- Agamenón y Clitemnestra - Alcestis - Alcíone y Ceice - Antíope - Aristeo - Arión - Asclepio - Atamante - Atlante y Prometeo - Atreo y Tiestes - Auge - Belerofonte - Belo y las Danaides - Bóreas - Cadmo y Harmonía - Catreo y Altémenes - Cleobis y Bitón - Cénide y Ceneo - Desde las Simplégadas hasta Cólquide - Deyanira - Dédalo y Talos - Edipo - El Argo vuelve a Grecia - El Diluvio de Deucalión - El alfabeto - El asesinato de Apsirto - El asesinato de Ífito - El caballo de madera - El destronamiento de Crono - El jabalí de Calidón - El mito olímpico de la creación - El mito pelasgo de la creación - El nacimiento de Afrodita - El nacimiento de Atenea - El nacimiento de Eros - El nacimiento de Heracles - El nacimiento de Hermes, Apolo, Ártwmis y Dioniso - El nacimiento de Teseo - El regreso de Odiseo a su hogar - El reinado de Orestes - El saqueo de Troya - Endimión - Eos - Erecteo y Eumolpo - Ergino - Erígone - Escila y Niso - Europa y Cadmo - Fedra y Hipólito - Foroneo - Fílide y Caria - Ganimedes - Helio - Hera y sus hijos - Heracles en Traquis - Hesíone - Hilas, Ámico y Fineo - Ifigenia en Táuride - Ixión - Ión - La asamblea de los argonautas - La castración de Urano - La conquista de Élide - La federalización del Ática - La fundación de Troya - La ira de Aquiles - La locura de Heracles - La locura de Áyax - La muerte de Aquiles - La muerte de Pelias - La muerte de Teseo - La pacificación de las Erinias - La primera reunión en Áulide - La rebelión de los gigantes - La segunda reunión en Áulide - La toma de Pilos - La toma del vellocino - La venganza de los Orestes - Lamia - Las Empusas - Las Parcas - Las cinco edades del hombre - Las hijas de Tespio - Las mujeres lemnias y el rey Cícico - Las yeguas de Glauco - Leda - Lino - Los Alóadas - Los Dáctilos - Los Epígonos - Los Telquines - Los amores de Minos - Los dioses del mundo subterráneo - Los hijos de Equidna - Los hijos de Heleno - Los hijos de Hipocoonte - Los hijos de Pandión - Los hijos de Pasífae - Los hijos de Penélope - Los hijos del mar - Los mellizos rivales - Los mitos homérick y órfico de la creación - Los oráculos - Los oráculos de Troya - Los regresos - Los siete contra Tebas - Los trabajos de Teseo - Los viajes de Odiseo - Lápidas y Centauros - Medea en el desierto - Medea en Éfira - Melampo - Midas - Minos y sus hermanos - Narciso - Naturaleza y hechos de Afrodita - Naturaleza y hechos de Apolo - Naturaleza y hechos de Ares - Naturaleza y hechos de Atebea - Naturaleza y hechos de Deméter - Naturaleza y hechos de Dioniso - Naturaleza y hechos de Hefesto - Naturaleza y hechos de Hermes - Naturaleza y hechos de Hestia - Naturaleza y hechos de Pan - Naturaleza y hechos de Poseidón - Naturaleza y hechos de Ártemis - Nueves años de Guerra - Níobe - Orfeo - Orión - Paris y helena - Penélope y Enónano - Perseo - Pigmalión y Galatea - Salmoneo y Tiro - Sísifo - Telamón y Peleo - Tereo - Teseo en Creta - Teseo en el Tártaro - Teseo y Medea - Teseo y las Amazonas - Tifón - Tique y Némesis - Tántalo - Zagreo - Zeus y Hera - Zeus y Metis - Álope - Éaco - Ío - Ónfale - Primer trabajo: el león de Nemea - Segundo trabajo: la hidra de Lerna - Tercer trabajo: la cierva de Cerinia - Cuarto trabajo: el jabalí de Erimanto - Quinto trabajo: los establos de Augías - Sexto trabajo: las aves estinfálidas - Séptimo trabajo: el toro de Creta - Octavo trabajo: las yeguas de Diomedes - Noveno trabajo: el cinturón de Hipólita - Décimo trabajo: los bueyes de Geríones - Undécimo trabajo: las manzanas de Hespérides - Duodécimo trabajo: la captura de Cerbero
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