Heroes (Stephen Fry’s Great Mythology Volume 2
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There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Stephen Fry's glorious retelling of their...
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The Silence of the Girls
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The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which...
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The Ancient Greek World - People and Places: How the Ancient Greeks Lived - An Authoritative and Highly Accessible Exploration of Society, Art and Architecture, Theatre, Sport and the Games
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Split into two parts, the book first traces the origin of the artistic achievements of Greece,...
David McK (3185 KP) rated Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures in Books
Jun 24, 2020
I say 'more or less' as the setting of these tales are in constant flux, with characters popping up all over the place long before (or after) they otherwise should! That's not a criticism of the retelling: just a statement of fact.
This volume thus covers the likes of Bellerephon and Pegasus, Oedipus (yes, that Oedipus!), Heracles - who the Romans renamed Hercules - and his Twelve Labours, Jason and the Argonauts, Theseus and the Minotaur and many (many) others!
Worth it for the educational value alone!
Now, hurry up and release part 3 (Troy) ...
Medusa: The Girl Behind The Myth
Jessie Burton and Olivia Lomenech Gill (illustrator)
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A dazzling, feminist retelling of Greek myth from the internationally bestselling author of The...
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The Gorgon (1964)
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Mid-period Hammer horror movie with a slightly atypical early-20th-century setting. A spate of...
Immortals (2011)
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Fantasy action movie based on Greek mythology (really quite loosely based). When an evil warlord...
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
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When Lenny (Woody Allen) and his wife, Amanda (Helena Bonham Carter), adopt a baby, Lenny realizes...
The Sea in the Greek Imagination
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The sea is omnipresent in Greek life. Visible from nearly everywhere, the sea represents the life...
Approaches to Greek Myth
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Since the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek...