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An edition of Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes (1940)

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There has long been a need for the stories of ancient mythology written to appeal to the twentieth-century mind. Edith Hamilton's orderly and lucid presentation of Greek, Roman and Norse mythology promises the casual reader and the avid student a sound, modern and adult key to the foundation stones of world literature. Her years of study of classical literature have already produced notable books and the charm of her writing is well established by THE GREEK WAY and THE ROMAN WAY. She has not been content to be merely a reteller of tales. She has blended and organized the sometimes conflicting myths of the early storytellers, molding them with vivid clarity.
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Little, Brown and Company
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497

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Manuel, Mythologie, Mythologie classique, creation myths, Golden Fleece, Trojan War, reference, Mythology, Classical Mythology, Folklore, Greek Mythology, Norse Mythology, Roman Mythology, Študije, Mitologija, Norse legends, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Mythology, juvenile literature, Mythology, classical, Mythology, greek

People

Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hades, Pallas Athena, Phoebus Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hermes, Ares, Hephaestus, Earth, Heaven, Titans, Cronus, Prometheus, Dionysus, Demeter, Persephone, Eros, Furies, Fates, Odysseus, Hercules, Theseus, Jason, Perseus, Oedipus, Orestes, Paris, Helen, Hector, Aeneas, Agamemnon, Achilles, Pandora, Orpheus, Oracle at Delphi, Ariadne, Medea, Iphigenia, Medusa, Minotaur, Sphinx, Cyclopes, Polyphemus, Cerberus, Odin, Hela, Valkyries, Signy, Sigurd, Brynhild, Atreus, Cecrops, Procne, Procris, Orithyia, Creusa, Midas, Aesculapius, Danaids, Glaucus, Erysichthon, Pomona, Vertumnus, Scylla, Ion, Boreas, Cephalus, Philomela, Tantalus, Cadmus, Antigone, Niobe, Ceres, Bacchus, Io, Europa, Narcissus, Hyacinth, Adonis, Cupid, Psyche, Pyramus, Ceyx, Alcyone, Eurydice, Pygmalion, Endymion, Daphne, Alpheus, Phaethon, Pegasus, Otus, Daedalus, Atalanta, Ephialtes, Bellerophon, Arethusa, Baucis, Philemon, Galatea, Thisbe

Places

Europe, Greece, Rome, Troy, Italy, Athens, Thebes, Olympus

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La Mythologie: Ses dieu, ses héros, ses légendes
May 31, 2003, Marabout
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Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
1999 08, Warner Books
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La mythologie: ses dieux, ses heros, ses legendes
1995 01, Marabout
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Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
1989 03, Meridian
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Mythology
1969, Mentor
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Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
1969, New American Library
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Mythology
1961 01, New American Library
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Mythology: timeless tales of Gods and heroes
1942, Penguin Group
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Mythology
1942, Little, Brown and Company
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Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1942.
Includes index.

Published in
Boston, USA
Copyright Date
1942

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
292.1/3
Library of Congress
BL311 .H345 1998, BL310 .H3 1942, J292 H

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 497 p. :
Number of pages
497

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Open Library
OL392509M
Internet Archive
mythologytimeles00hami_1
ISBN 10
0316341142
ISBN 13
9780316341141
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98067177, 42012948
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9780316341141
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0316341142
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2296662
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836577

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There has long been a need for the stories of ancient mythology written to appeal to the twentieth-century mind. Edith Hamilton's orderly and lucid presentation of Greek, Roman and Norse mythology promises the casual reader and the avid student a sound, modern and adult key to the foundation stones of world literature. Her years of study of classical literature have already produced notable books and the charm of her writing is well established by THE GREEK WAY and THE ROMAN WAY. She has not been content to be merely a reteller of tales. She has blended and organized the sometimes conflicting myths of the early storytellers, molding them with vivid clarity.

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Greek and Roman mythology is quite generally suposed to show us the way the human reace thought and felt untold ages ago.
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