![]() The winged steed Pegasus, after skimming the air all day, went every night to a comfortable stable in Corinth. ![]() The exact spot where Aphrodite was born of the foam could be visited by any ancient tourist it was just offshore from the island of Cythera. ![]() Hercules, whose life was one long combat against preposterous monsters, is always said to have had his home in the city of Thebes. ![]() Anyone who reads them with attention discovers that even the most nonsensical take place in a world which is essentially rational and matter-of-fact. The world-renowned classic that has enthralled and delighted millions of readers with its timeless tales of gods and heroes.Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present.We. It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are. The terrifying incomprehensibilities which were worshiped elsewhere, and the fearsome spirits with which earth, air, and sea swarmed, were banned from Greece. “That is the miracle of Greek mythology-a humanized world, men freed from the paralyzing fear of an omnipotent Unknown. ![]()
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