Robert Graves THE GREEK MYTHS Folio Society 2003
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Robert Graves THE GREEK MYTHS Folio Society 2003
Ninth folio printing slipcased hardback set of THE GREEK MYTHS by Robert Graves. Published by The Folio Society in 2001. Illustrations by Grahame Baker and Maps drawn by Denys Baker. Introduction by Kenneth McLeish. Originally published in 1955 by Penguin Books.The books are in fine condition (quarter bound in buckram with beautifully iIlustrated brown, black and white boards with gilt lettering to spines) with no significant wear, apart from a couple of tiny spots to the fore edge of Volume 1. The books are in a near fine slipcase that has a dark smudge to the spine. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
A mythography, a compendium of Greek mythology, by the poet and writer Robert Graves. In a work that has become a classic reference book for both the serious scholar and the casual inquirer.
Graves retells the adventures of the important gods and heroes worshipped by the ancient Greeks. Each entry provides a full commentary which examines problems of interpretation in both historical and anthropological terms, and in light of contemporary research. Each myth is presented in the voice of a narrator writing under the Antonines, such as Plutarch or Pausanias, with citations of the classical sources. Each myth is followed by an interpretation of its origin and significance, in the terms of Graves' other essays on mythology, such as The White Goddess.
Volume I - 342 pages; Volume II - 343 pages. Illustrated with maps on endpapers and numerous black and white drawings.
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