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Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition
Edith Hamilton
3.97 AVERAGE
986 reviews for:
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition
Edith Hamilton
3.97 AVERAGE
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Hamilton offers a broad overview of Greek and Roman Mythology, editing different versions of the tales into emotional and imaginative stories that feel both their age and a bracing modern engagement. Unfortunately, she also adds on a bare chapter at the end that attempts to address Norse tales, but does so in such a sparing manner as to be wasteful of those rich tales. What's more, she adds on editorial notes indicating she has no love for these stories and declares them a clear subordinate to the Greco-Roman variety. Given her lack of interest and lack of pages given to these stories, the book would actually feel richer and more complete if these final chapters were simply cut out.
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This book took me months and month to read, mainly because it was such slow going, combined with small moments that were both trivial but also maddening, that I kept setting it aside. I feel sorry for any students who were forced to read this for school, as the back cover proclaims has happened.
The moments were fleeting, but they wove together as an attempt to inject some commentary into the stories. At best they were distracting, but often they either completely derailed the narrative or were just so insipid or pretentious sounding that I had to finish that particular myth and then set the book aside. I kept reading, though, firstly because I really don't like to leave books unfinished, and secondly because I found value in at least becoming more familiar with all the names in these stories.
The moments were fleeting, but they wove together as an attempt to inject some commentary into the stories. At best they were distracting, but often they either completely derailed the narrative or were just so insipid or pretentious sounding that I had to finish that particular myth and then set the book aside. I kept reading, though, firstly because I really don't like to leave books unfinished, and secondly because I found value in at least becoming more familiar with all the names in these stories.
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