by Robert Graves · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140010275
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«The Greek Myths, Volume 2» is the second volume of Robert Graves's essay on Greek mythology, published by Penguin in paperback (416 pages, in English).
The book narrates the Greek myths for a modern audience: the creation, the Olympian gods, the cycles of Theseus, Oedipus and Heracles, the expedition of the Argonauts and the Trojan War. Graves contrasts variants, cites classical sources and adds commentaries that interpret each myth with the help of archaeology and anthropology.
Second volume of the series «The Greek Myths» by Robert Graves, whose original edition dates from 1955; this Penguin paperback edition is from 1990.
Reference work for the general reader and for the student of classical mythology, with an interest in ancient history and anthropology.
Robert Ranke Graves, whose second name is sometimes given as von Ranke, was an English poet, novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celticists and students of Irish mythology.
