- WHERE IS BELLEROPHON IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY BY EDITH HAMILTON FULL
- WHERE IS BELLEROPHON IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY BY EDITH HAMILTON FREE
WHERE IS BELLEROPHON IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY BY EDITH HAMILTON FULL
For example, Hesiod is a notably simple writer and devout he is naïve, even childish, sometimes crude, always full of piety. My aim has been nothing more ambitious than to keep distinct for the reader the very different writers from whom our knowledge of the myths comes. I do not mean, of course, that a great writer’s style can be reproduced or that I should dream of attempting such a feat. That would have meant either writing “King Lear,” so to speak, down to the level of “Cinderella”-the vice versa procedure being obviously not possible-or else telling in my own way stories which were in no sense mine and had been told by great writers in ways they thought suited their subjects. In point of fact, Chaucer is more like Galsworthy and the ballads like Kipling than Homer is like Lucian or Aeschylus like Ovid.įaced with this problem, I determined at the outset to dismiss any idea of unifying the tales. The English collection would be bigger, but it would not contain more dissimilar material. Twelve hundred years separate the first writers through whom the myths have come down to us from the last, and there are stories as unlike each other as “Cinderella” and “King Lear.” To bring them all together in one volume is really somewhat comparable to doing the same for the stories of English literature from Chaucer to the ballads, through Shakespeare and Marlowe and Swift and Defoe and Dryden and Pope and so on, ending with, say, Tennyson and Browning, or even, to make the comparison truer, Kipling and Galsworthy. The death of Ymir and the creation of the worldĪ book on Mythology must draw from widely different sources. Phaethon and his chariot, all on fire, falling to earth Odysseus and his men encounter the Cyclops Part II: The Descent into the Lower World The Twelve Olympians Made Up a Divine Familyįlower-Myths: Narcissus, Hyacinth, Adonis The Titans and the Twelve Great Olympians THE GODS, THE CREATION, AND THE EARLIEST HEROES To find out more, go to or call (866) 376-6591. The Hachette Speakers Bureau provides a wide range of authors for speaking events. The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher. The Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, 1942īlack Dog & Leventhal Publishers is an imprint of Hachette Books, a division of Hachette Book Group. If you would like permission to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), please contact Thank you for your support of the author’s rights. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book without permission is a theft of the author’s intellectual property. The purpose of copyright is to encourage writers and artists to produce the creative works that enrich our culture.
WHERE IS BELLEROPHON IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY BY EDITH HAMILTON FREE
Hachette Book Group supports the right to free expression and the value of copyright. If you’ve never read mythology before, we recommend you start with one of these selections.Copyright renewed © 1969 by Dorian Fielding Reid and Doris Fielding ReidĬover copyright © 2017 by Hachette Book Group, Inc. Reading these timeless tales will stir up your imagination, while also giving you food for thought in terms of the loyalty, bravery, and wisdom that the characters do (or don’t) exhibit. Mythology is the foundation of all storytelling.
Part history, part legend, and part myth, these stories were first put on paper as early as the 8th century AD. The Irish are well-known for their storytelling prowess, and that’s no surprise: they have a rich collection of mythologies handed down from generation to generation.
0 kommentar(er)
