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020			_a9780143106715
082			_a292.13 _bGRA
100			_aGraves, Robert
245			_aThe greek myths
260			_bPenguin Books, _c2012. _aNew York :
300			_axxxvi, 792 p. ; _c22 cm.
365			_b1099.00 _c₹ _d01
490			_aPenguin Classics
504			_aIncludes index.
520			_aRobert Graves, classicist, poet, and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience And, in the two volumes of The Greek Myths, he demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek Mythology is "no more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons." His work covers, in nearly two hundred sections, the creation myths; the legends of the births and lives of the great Olympians; the Theseus, Oedipus, and Heracles cycles; the Argonaut voyage; the tale of Troy, and much more. 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.
650			_aMythology
650			_aSocial Science
700			_aRiordan, Rick
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