greigroselli's review
5.0
I recommend this text for high school and college students exploring myths. It's superior to other Greek myth compilations because Graves includes a rich sourced retelling of the myth, but (and here's the kicker), he includes an explanatory section for each myth and a historical-anthropological reading of the myth — including a list of ancient sources. I feel like Graves is the antithesis to Joseph Campbell — because Graves doesn't use the archetype method to explain myths as part of a collective unconscious; instead, he relies on archaeological and evidence-based research to traces the origin of these tales.
fililipa's review
5.0
Finally!!
Honestly this was pretty great, exactly what I was looking for. Took a bit longer than what I expected reading considering it's not a narrative but a sort of encyclopedia format, I feel like it had everything and it was long time coming to finally have a book with information about the whole of greek mythology without being distorted a little bit like it happens with retellings.
Just need to figure out what to do with all this information that is now in my brain.
P.s. there was literally no decent guy in the whole of this book, heroes? lol serious anger issues, rape, cruelty, incest, i can't, absolutely devastated with hercules/heracles
Honestly this was pretty great, exactly what I was looking for. Took a bit longer than what I expected reading considering it's not a narrative but a sort of encyclopedia format, I feel like it had everything and it was long time coming to finally have a book with information about the whole of greek mythology without being distorted a little bit like it happens with retellings.
Just need to figure out what to do with all this information that is now in my brain.
P.s. there was literally no decent guy in the whole of this book, heroes? lol serious anger issues, rape, cruelty, incest, i can't, absolutely devastated with hercules/heracles
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