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Greek Mythology: A Concise Guide to Ancient Gods, Heroes, Beliefs and Myths of Greek Mythology (Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Celtic Mythology) Kindle Edition

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Greek Mythology is an enormous field of study and a brief guide is a daunting task for any writer. The myths have a way of entwining one with another, and it is difficult to present a coherent story line without feeling one has omitted the best part of the story.

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✓ What Is A Myth?
✓ The Sources Of Greek Mythology
✓ The Creation Of The Universe And The Gods
✓ What Of Man? What Of Woman?
✓ The Greek Pantheon
✓ The Trojan War
✓ The Influence Of Greek Drama
✓ Two Greek Mortal Heroes In Mythological Tales

This guide succeeds in presenting an overall sketch of the creation of the world and the battles that follow, resulting in Zeus taking his place as the supreme god and ruling the earth from Mount Olympus. It covers the creation of man, it seems, as a bit of an afterthought for the amusement of the Olympians and some of the most famous stories that have come down to us via the writings of the great dramatists of the Classical Age. There are concise biographies of the twelve gods that make up the Olympians as well as of the heroes of the Trojan War.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hourly History (July 3, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 3, 2016
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richard p duquesne
5.0 out of 5 stars History of mythology
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2023
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Very consise bud well Written
I enjoyed learned all about Greek God's and goddesses and how they interacted with mortal men.
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Jung "Young" Dalton Parkims
4.0 out of 5 stars All-in-all it’s fairly a nice work, fun to read and easy to understand, ex-cept/ -sauf/ -save...
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(Kindle Ed. p. 1)
"Man: a being in search of meaning." -Plato; a philosopher c428-348BCE

Greek myth, or Greek philosophy and history? Or Greek mind? Anyway it tells how advanced their ancient philosophy on Human nature and psychology already was.

With its good introduction and conclusion all-in-all it’s fairly a nice work, fun to read and easy to understand, except those last lines of each chapter as I always point out after reading the mythology books by Mr. Robert CARLSON.

In the introduction the author tells what a myth really is, which cannot be separated from the history and philosophy (natural science and the society’s understanding of the world order in their mind’/ ment’ality back in days).

(Kindle Ed. pp. 1-2)
If you look back on the events of your day today, I am prepared to guess that you referenced Greek mythology at least twice, if not three times. Perhaps you are laughing, but think back: did you look at your horoscope under your sign of the Zodiac? Did you work like a Spartan to catch up on some work? Was your PC at work attacked by a Trojan virus? Did you order something via Amazon.com? Did you buy some household shopping at lunch time and pick up a bottle of Ajax? Perhaps you found a second-hand copy of "The Tanglewood Tales" by Nigel Hawthorne for your niece's birthday while you were out booking tickets to go to "Orpheus in the Underworld" on Saturday. Afterwards you might have wondered what it would be like to be "as rich as Croesus"! Television news channels today are discussing whether China and the United States are going to fall into the Thucydides' Trap - Thucydides being a famous Greek military leader who wrote about "the likelihood of conflict between a rising power and a currently dominant one." ...We know a great deal about it mostly through ancient pottery of all things; the ancient Egyptians may have inscribed their beliefs on the interior walls of their incredible burial sites. But the customs of the Greeks survived best on bits of decorated pottery in the form of vases, urns and pots that have defied the ravages of eons. Pottery survived, sometimes even intact, better than built structures and paintings, and these objects were decorated with abstract designs as well as realistic depictions of everyday life. The best-known style was the silhouetted, black figures in action, for example a vase by the potter Exekias depicting Achilles killing the Amazon Penthesilia dated 540 BCE.

True: Despite the fact that Amazon and Troy were different entities like Scythia in Greek hi-story, it was the Greeks, who left the records about all these, and that's why the “car” case from my previous review (read my bookreview on Celtic Mythology) with Latin alphabets, which was the official "common" letters for any ur'/ wr'iting until Renaissance: FYI, the New Test’ament had first been written in Greek and translated later to be spread in Latin for a thousand years, so the West has been calling the country, called Hellas by its own people who call themselves the Hellenes, "Greece (Gr-i’s)" of the "Greek (Gr-i’c)" people, meaning the "letter-one" or the "writing-one." Gr meant and still means alpha-bet[a] in some Scytho-tongues, and it was the power and author’ity (written rules based on the ancient authorities’ kn’owledge they believed was true lol), so our English words like grow, grand, great and Christ all got the same in them.

(Kindle Ed. pp. 2-4)
...The fact that so much Greek custom and culture was subsumed in the wave of Roman influence as the Roman Empire advanced across the ancient world has had the odd effect of highlighting many aspects of Grecian life instead of obliterating it. One just has to remember the Roman aristocrat Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BCE-17 CE) to appreciate this. He is better remembered as Ovid, the poet who based his work on Greek and Roman mythology. His Metamorphosis would become one of Shakespeare's most fruitful story sources. This brief guide will cover the rise of Greece and biographies of selected gods from its colourful pantheon. I will touch on the ways Greek mythology is different from other popular mythologies and recount some key aspects of their beliefs. The adventures, triumphs and sorrows of their heroes and heroines are told in dramatic plays that still grip modern audiences today. This is as a result of one of the most interesting gods of all times; Dionysus, twice-born son of the great Zeus.

Seriously this is probably the best introduction ever among those the same author has written so far.

(Kindle Ed. p. 5)
...it is a mistake to equate a myth with a "lie" or an untruth. Remember that we look back on ancient times and think about myths as stories or beliefs, but in the time of our ancestors the "myth" was their reality. So why were they constructed? The general consensus is that we created myths to explain our environment to ourselves and to make sense of our experiences, to answer the question about where we came from, who we are and how we can be happy. One can think of mythology as the forerunner of what we came to call philosophy, which is why myths are so entangled with religion and existentialism - and why they are so important. Myths are also how we recall historical events. It is incredible to think of all the history of the ancient world held in so fragile a vessel as the human mind!

Gen’i-us, it's a homerun! I just want to throw one question here: Is our Christian belief any different? Without Hope, any god is useless.

(Kindle Ed. p. 11)
...Socrates' greatest pupil, Plato (429-347 BCE) was openly scathing of Homer and Hesiod: "These, methinks, composed false stories which they told and still tell to mankind." Aristotle (384-322 BCE) too was fairly dismissive of the school of Hesiod, saying "about those who have invented clever mythologies it is not worthwhile to take a serious book." It is therefore somewhat confusing to find that he wrote an entire book on the subject called "Metaphysics," in which he expressed appreciation for the fact that great myths would often form the basis of philosophical formulations about the nature of being...

Yeah, so I'm just talking about the same thing to the faith of my society where I belong just like they did to theirs.

(Kindle Ed. pp. 16-17)
“How the gods must have chuckled when they added Hope to the evils
with which they filled Pandora’s box, for they knew very well
that this was the cruelest evil of them all, since it is
Hope that lures mankind to endure its misery to the end.”
—W. Somerset Maugham; British author 1874–1965

Great lines, but how are these relevant to the chapter to be the ending lines of it? The author does that all the time in all his mythology books and that's why he always loses one star. The author should know that a book is for both its writer “and” its readers who don’t get to see the connection and relevance of these without any explanation like the author does, and that’s why they choose to read the author’s works to learn, so explain them ye shall.

(Kindle Ed. p. 29)
Achilles speaking to the seer Calchas.
Prophet of evil, when have you ever said good things to me?
You love to foretell the worst, always the worst!
You never show good news.
—Homer; Iliad. Book I

Again, what are these lines here for? A prelude to Trojan War of the following chapter? He should have put these lines as the introduction for that chapter then. It’s a wrong form’a[c]ting causing con-fus'ion among readers to lose a star.

(Kindle Ed. pp. 34-35)
Electra receives the urn containing her brother’s ashes. “But now, an exile from home and fatherland, thou hast perished miserably, far from thy sister; woe is me, these loving hands have not washed or decked thy corpse, nor taken up, as was meet, their sad burden from the flaming pyre. No! at the hands of strangers, hapless one, thou hast had those rites, and so art come to us, a little dust in a narrow urn… Ah me, ah me! O piteous dust! Alas, thou dear one, sent on a dire journey, how hast undone me,- undone me indeed, O brother mine!” — Sophocles; Electra.

Does an-y of y’all readers know what these lines are about? That's how you will feel reading these lines in the book as a matter of fact, 'cause there's no prior explanation of the story before these lines here. It needs to be explained beforehand; not all the readers know about the princess and her revenge for her father Agamemnon’s murder. Told ya many times: Feels like the author always plays a bit cocky at the end of every chapter.

(Kindle Ed. pp. 37-38)
“...Agamemnon” won first prize in 458 BCE and tells the story of his return to his wife Clytemnestra after the Trojan Wars. Clytemnestra kills him and Cassandra, the mistress he brings back with him, with her own hands, in revenge for his sacrifice of Iphigenia...Electra was Agamemnon’s daughter and Iphigenia’s sister. She had sent her beloved brother into hiding soon after Agamemnon departed for the Trojan Wars, when she suspected he might be in danger from her mother’s lover, Aegisthus. The play “Electra” deals with the revenge she takes on her mother and Aegisthus when they kill Agamemnon on his return from Troy. The extract above occurs when she is told her brother has been killed and she receives his ashes and realizes that she alone must exact the revenge.

See? These lines are supposed to be placed before the lines on pp. 34-35: A wrong format.

The following is the on[e]-ly typo I found: However is used twice.

(Kindle Ed. p. 12)
However, the most important source of information about the nature and place of Greek myths is however the work of the great dramatists of the Classical Age...

And the book ends with the best conclusion ever, so completion-wise it’s fairly a good work for a first edition.

(Kindle Ed. pp. 43-44)
It is a mistake to think that the Romans simply took over Greek mythology, though most of the Greek gods do have a Roman counterpart. The Roman gods had a very different kind of persona and the syncretization of the two beliefs involved a complex and sometimes conflicted process. Still, in 145 BCE Greece became part of the Roman Empire. I wonder what Zeus had to say about that?
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Karen
3.0 out of 5 stars Good starter
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2022
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Very factual yet brief. Someone who isn't looking for an in-depth look at Greek mythology should start here. Good starting point.
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OOG
5.0 out of 5 stars More than sufficient for overview on Greek Mythology
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2017
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I am in the middle of wring a message to poets about psychoanalysis. I have picked up books on Greek mythology many times but failed to continue because all of them are too voluminous and tedious. I have decided to make my own short good summary.Then I found this succinct, clear and well organized book on the subject with everything I need to quote on my writing. I don't know why always Greek mythology is only for the famous writers and has to be complicated. This book is sufficient and.even if one need to go in details this is wonderful guide or index to begin with. I would recommend to anyone to learn about Greek mythology before you pick up any thick volume.
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Debbii
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Journey into the Past!!
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2019
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I loved the authers Full depiction of Greek Mythology. I enjoyed the fascinating stories and in depth character's. I looking forward to reading his egyptian Mythology as well. I am studying all of his mythology books and my son is reading them next. I for all the history you get the price of the digital book is unbelievable, I will be getting the regular books as well. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a full history of the pagan religions and deitys. I Excellent for those who are studying for the Wicca.
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BooBear
4.0 out of 5 stars The book it's self.
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2024
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As someone who's knowledge of Greek mythology could be viewed in a Disney film. I found this book very helpful in having a better understanding of what we know about Greek mythology. I will definitely listen again as I found may points very interesting.
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430booklover
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book on ancient Greece.
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2023
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Interesting book covering Greek history, plays, philosophers, history and mythology.
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Bevan
3.0 out of 5 stars Broad cover
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2019
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This Hourly History gives a 'broad cover' look at Greek mythology.
Odd that humans always seems to have had a compulsion to have a 'God' (or multiple 'gods') to explain their being and circumstances.
I guess one can appreciate the depth of research to compile even this brief overview - but it all became too far-fetched nonsense and I reverted to skimming a greater proportion.
The author interjects with first-person asides, which seemed out of place.
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Dan
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice
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Stephen
5.0 out of 5 stars V3ry good
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Good but now I need more comprehensive version, liked it as a kid, now at 68 have time to indulge myself.
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Gabriel
5.0 out of 5 stars Bom demais
Reviewed in Brazil on May 2, 2019
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Apesar de ser todo em inglês, o livro traz uma leitura bem simples, e mesmo caso haja dúvidas o próprio Kindle te auxilia dependendo do seu nível de conhecimento. Leitura rápida mas bem detalhada e abrangente
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nice
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente titulo
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Lectura muy recomendada , en mi caso lo descarge para practicar mi inglés, agradezco ya que lo adquirí gratis .
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