Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

By Edith Hamilton

Categories: Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality

Classicist Edith Hamilton's 1942 retelling of the Greek, Roman and Norse myths is drawn directly from ancient sources such as Homer, Hesiod, Ovid and the Greek tragedians. She opens with the origins of the cosmos and the Olympian gods. Hamilton moves through the great stories of love and adventure, including Cupid and Psyche, Perseus, Theseus, Hercules and Jason, to the Trojan War, the wanderings of Odysseus and the Norse gods. Brief notes identify the poets behind each tale.

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