The Greek Myths (2 Vols)

S$92.00

The Greek Myths (2 Vols)

S$92.00

Title: The Greek Myths – Complete two volume set
Author: Robert Graves, Grahame Baker (illus), Denys Baker (illus), Kenneth McLeish (intro)
ISBN: –
Publisher: The Folio Society, 1996
Condition: Hardcover, with slipcase. In very good condition: slipcase has minor scuffs, books have very minor rubbing. 9.4″ x 6″, 700 pages.

Set in Eberhardt with Lithos display. Printed by Grafos, S.A., Barcelona, on Caxton Wove paper and bound by them in quarter buckram with paper sides with a design by Grahame Baker. Interior illustrations by Grahame Baker. Maps by Denys Baker. Slipcased.

Classicist and poet Robert Graves’ superb two-volume retelling of the Greek myths for a modern audience has been regarded for over fifty years as the definitive version. Drawing on the entire canon of ancient literature, Graves weaves together all the elements of every myth into a single harmonious narrative. Ideal for the first time reader, it is also accompanied by commentaries, cross-references, variants and explanations that make it equally valuable as a work of scholarly reference. The result is a dazzling and comprehensive account of the gods and monsters, the heroic feats and appalling tragedies of ancient Greece, many of them among the greatest stories ever told. Included in this first volume are the great creation myths, the heroic tales of Perseus and Theseus, the tragedies of Orpheus and Icarus, the stories of the gods Aphrodite, Hermes, Apollo and Dionysus, as well as many, many others.

ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985) was an English poet, translator, and novelist, one of the leading English men of letters in the twentieth century. He fought in World War I and won international acclaim in 1929 with the publication of his memoir of the First World War, Good-bye to All That. After the war, he was granted a classical scholarship at Oxford and subsequently went to Egypt as the first professor of English at the University of Cairo. He is most noted for his series of novels about the Roman emperor Claudius and his works on mythology, such as The White Goddess.