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The Greek Generals Talk (1986) The Trojan Generals Talk (1988) Richard Powell, Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1970) Laura Riding, A Trojan Ending (1937) S.P. Somtow, The Shattered Horse (1986) S. M. Stirling. Against the Tide of Years (1999) On the Oceans of Eternity (2000) Rex Stout, The Great Legend (1916) Henry Treece, The Windswept City (1967)
Ares – The Greek god of war [4] [5] and member of the Olympians. New Gods – Fictional race appearing in the New Gods comic book series Darkseid – Apokoliptian god of evil [6] [7] Lords of Chaos and Order – Opposed groups of divine energy beings locked in eternal struggle [8] [9] The Presence – Comic book character
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)
[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.
Greek mythology has had an extensive influence on the culture, arts, and literature of Western civilization and remains part of Western heritage and language. Poets and artists from ancient times to the present have derived inspiration from Greek mythology and have discovered contemporary significance and relevance in the themes. [4]: 43
Seaborne floating islands have been found in literature since Homer's Odyssey, written near the end of the 8th century BCE, described the island of Aeolia. [1] They reappear in Pliny the Elder's Natural History of the 1st century CE. Richard Head‘s 1673 novel The Floating Island describes a fictional island named Scotia Moria.
A mythical underworld plain in Irish mythology, achievable only through death or glory. Meaning 'plains of joy', Mag Mell was a hedonistic and pleasurable paradise, usually associated with the sea. Rocabarraigh: A phantom island in Scottish Gaelic mythology. Tech Duinn: A mythological island to the west of Ireland where souls go after death ...
Symbolism from classical mythology is enormously influential on Western culture, but it was not until the 19th century that it was used in the context of literary fantasy. Richard Garnett ( The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales , 1888, revised 1903) and John Kendrick Bangs ( Olympian Nights , 1902) used the Greek myths for satirical purposes.
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