Name: Mythology
Author: Edith Hamilton
ISBN: 9780316438537

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FL-0129E.V.

HAMILTON, Edith

Mythology

1942

1. Poetry and Myth

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Edith Hamilton Mythology Overview Mythology is the book through which a great many English-speaking readers have met the Greek myths, and it is far more argumentative than its reputation as a school reference suggests. Hamilton is not assembling a compendium. She is contending, against what she calls “nearly every writer who touches upon classical mythology, above all… the poets”, that Greek mythology tells us almost nothing about primitive man and almost everything about the early Greeks — and that the way to show this is to refuse to blend the…

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Accession:FL-0129

ISBN-13:9780316438537

Published:1942

Language:en

Shelved under:Poetry and Myth

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