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mars_loves_books's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Animal death, Death, Incest, Kidnapping, War, Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Rape, Blood, Sexual assault, Violence, Sexual violence, Child death, Murder, and Sexism
katerina_l's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Child death, Grief, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Blood, Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Child abuse, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Rape
tamarant4's review against another edition
4.0
[Erysichthon, cursed by Demeter] eats the racehorses, a warhorse and an ailouros – the animal they keep for catching vermin. This word was usually translated as ‘cat’ when I was a student, but some archaeozoologists now think domestic cats were quite late arrivals in Greece, so an ailouros might actually be a weasel or a pine marten. Whatever it is, Erysichthon eats it. [loc. 2795]
of all the goddesses in this book, the Furies – not in their role of vengeance-goddesses but in the sense of collective, societal shame that they also personify, shame at breaking your word or behaving cruelly and dishonestly – might be the ones I would most like to see restored to a modern pantheon. [loc. 4040]
Minor: Child death, War, Violence, Rape, Animal death, and Animal cruelty