About this title: The myths told by the Greeks and Romans are as important as their history for our understanding of what they believed, thought and felt, and of what they expressed in writing and visual art. Mythology was inextricably interwoven with the entire fabric of their public and private lives. This book discusses not only the purely fictional myths, fairy-tales and folk-tales but the sagas and legends which have some historical grounding. This is not a dictionary of stories, rather a personal selection of the most important and memorable. Michael Grant re-tells these marvellous tales, and then ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: mentor books
Date Published: 1962
ISBN-13:9780297796343ISBN:0297796348
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice condition, clean tanning pages, solid binding, nice cover just minor wear. I ship daily! Your purchase is greatly appreciated, thank you, bookwolfe. xv, 488p. read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: New American Library
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good. -1st Printing--432 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The paperback cover has light signs of use. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New American Library; New English Library
Date Published: 1962
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Small tear on cover. 432p., ill., 19 cm. Originally published, World Publishing Co; (B62-18539), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Plume, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780452011625ISBN:0452011620
Description: Very Good. 0452011620 Previously read trade paperback book in very good condition, some very minor shelf wear, no rips or tears. 03334625 _ read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Plume, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780452011625ISBN:0452011620
Description: Very Good. 0452011620 Previously read trade paperback book in very good condition, some very minor shelf wear, no rips or tears. 03334626 _ read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: New American Library; New English Library
Date Published: 1965
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. cover is worn but book otherwise in very good condition. 432p., ill., 19 cm. Originally published, World Publishing Co; (B62-18539), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. read more
"not as good as Edith Hamilton's Mythology, but still well written, just not as well organized. It has some great illustrations, though, and an short story meets non-fiction style of telling the tales. It's not really a read through type of book, but serves better as a go to for information on a particular myth."
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