The world-renowned classic that has enthralled and delighted millions of readers with its timeless tales of gods and heroes. Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. We follow the drama of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus. We hear the tales of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Cupid and Psyche, and mighty King Midas. We discover the origins of the names of the constellations. And we recognize reference points for countless works for art, literature and culture inquiry-from Freud's Oedipus complex to Wagner's Ring Cycle of operas to Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra Both a reference text for scholars of all ages and a book to simply enjoy, Mythology is a classic not to be missed.

Mythology

HAMILTON, EDITH

Reference

Back Bay Books

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Little. Brown and Company

This 75th anniversary edition of a classic bestseller is stunningly illustrated and designed to enchant fans of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology at all ages. Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a perennial bestseller. For more than seven decades readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the enchanting world of mythology -- from Odysseus's adventure-filled journey to the Norse god Odin's effort to postpone the final day of doom. This deluxe, hardcover edition is fully-illustrated throughout with all-new, specially commissioned art, making it a true collector's item.

Mythology (75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition): Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Black Dog Leventhal

[MP3CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.] [Read by Wanda McCaddon] The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece. ''What the Greeks discovered, how they brought a new world to birth out of the dark confusions of an old world that had crumbled away, is full of meaning for us today who have seen an old world swept away.''  In The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton shares the fruits of her thorough study of Greek life, literature, philosophy, and art. She interprets their meaning and brings us a realization of the refuge and strength the past can offer us in the troubled present. Hamilton's book has taken its place among the few interpretative volumes that are permanently rooted and profoundly alive in our literature.

Greek Way

History

Ancient Civilizations

Avon/Books

Drawing on the greatest writers of its civilization, Hamilton vividly depicts the life and spirit of Rome.In this informal history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts the Roman life and spirit as they are revealed in the greatest writers of the time. Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; Catullus, the quintessential poet of love; Horace, the chronicler of a cruel and materialistic Rome; and the Romantics Virgil, Livy, and Seneca. The story concludes with the stark contrast between high-minded Stoicism and the collapse of values witnessed by Tacitus and Juvenal.“No one in modern times has shown us more vividly . . . ‘the grandeur that was Rome.’ Filtering the golden essence from the mass of classical literature, she proved how applicable to our daily lives are the humor and wisdom of more than 2,000 years ago.”― New York Times

The Roman Way

The noted author and scholar presents a guide to the prophets of the Old Testament for the modern reader.

Spokesmen for God

World

W.W.Norton&Company

Fourth-century Athens has a special claim on our attention, apart from the great men it produced, for it is the prelude to the end of Greece. The kind of events that took place in the great free government of the ancient world may, by reason of unchanging human nature, be repeated in the modern world. The course that Athens followed can be to us not only a record of distant and forgotten events, but a blueprint of what may happen again.

The Echo of Greece

Americas

Essays on philosophy and literature, both ancient and modern, by the author of The Greek Way.
"A great lady with a disciplined and noble mind and an unquenchable love of good literature. In this volume, we can still hear that calm but not passionless voice explaining the grandeurs and difficulties of some of her favorite books and communicating her appreciation of them to us." ―Gilbert Highet

The Ever-Present Past (Norton Library (Paperback))

A picture of Greek thought and arts as revealed in the works of the writers of the Periclean Age

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

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Mythology

Mythology

Mythology

Mythology (75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition): Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Greek Way

The Roman Way

Spokesmen for God

The Echo of Greece

The Ever-Present Past (Norton Library (Paperback))

Greek Way