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[159]: 545 Bulfinch's Mythology, a book on Greek mythology published in 1867 and aimed at a popular audience, was described by Carl J. Richard as "one of the most popular books ever published in the United States". [164] George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion is a modern, rationalized retelling of the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion.
Goatsong: A Novel of Ancient Athens (1989) The Walled Orchard (1991) John Galen Howard, Pheidias (1929) Noel Langley, Nymph in Clover (1948) Edward Leatham, Charmione: A Tale of the Great Athenian Revolution (1859) Jon Edward Martin, Shades of Artemis (2004) Iona McGregor, The Snake and the Olive (1974) Naomi Mitchison, Cloud Cuckoo Land (1925)
Set during the Greek Heroic Age, it is an adaptation of various Greek myths, most notably the Odyssey, as told from the perspective of the witch Circe. The novel explores Circe's origin story and narrates Circe's encounters with mythological figures such as Hermes , the Minotaur , Jason , and Medea and ultimately, her romance with Odysseus and ...
The Greek Myths by Robert Graves (1955) Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece by Gustav Schwab (1837) Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece by W. H. D. Rouse (1934) Bulfinch's Mythology (originally published as three volumes) by Thomas Bulfinch (1855) Mythology by Edith Hamilton (1942) Myths of the Ancient Greeks by Richard P. Martin (2003)
The books also inspired the 2010 movie starring Logan Lerman and Alexandra Daddario. As the fandom gears up for the second season , it’s a great time to revisit the original books and dive into ...
Jean-Pierre Vernant was a historian and anthropologist specialized on ancient Greece.He was approached by the editor Maurice Olender of Éditions du Seuil, which had published two scholarly works by Vernant in its series La librairie du XXe siècle; the series was celebrating its tenth anniversary, and Olender asked Vernant to write his retellings of Greek myths and turn them into a book for ...
Ilium/Olympos is a series of two science fiction novels by Dan Simmons.The events are set in motion by beings who appear to be ancient Greek gods.Like Simmons' earlier series, the Hyperion Cantos, it is a form of "literary science fiction"; it relies heavily on intertextuality, in this case with Homer and Shakespeare as well as references to Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (or ...
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