The Greek Myths 2

Few modern writers are better qualified than Robert Graves to retell the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience.

In the two volumes of The Greek Myths, with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge, he provides a complete mythology’ to replace Smith’s Dictionary of Classical Mythology of the nineteenth century. Graves’s work covers, in nearly two hundred sections, the creation myths, the legends of the birth and lives of the great Olympians, the Theseus, Oedipus and Heracles cycles, the Argonaut voyage, the tale of Troy, and much else.

All the scattered elements of each myth have been assembled into a harmonious narrative, and many variants are recorded which may help to determine its ritual or historical meaning. Full references to the classical sources, and copious indexes, make the book as valuable to the scholar as to the general reader; and a full commentary on each myth explains and interprets the classical version in the light of today’s archaeological and anthropological knowledge.