*The definitive and comprehensive edition of Robert Graves's classic retell ing of the Greek myths* 'Icarus disobeyed his father's instructions and beg an soaring towards the sun, rejoiced by the lift of his great sweeping wing s. Presently, when Daedalus looked over his shoulder, he could no longer se e Icarus; but scattered feathers floated on the waves below...' These are t he greatest stories ever told - the labours of Hercules, the voyage of the Argonauts, Theseus and the minotaur, Midas and his golden touch, the Trojan War and Odysseus's journey home - brought together into one epic and ... View More...
"Let us walk in the gloom of the pyramids, in the cool shadows of ruined te mples, aye, through the tortuous labyrinth of the Egyptian mind itself, tru sting that by virtue of the light we carry we shall succeed in unravelling to some extent the age-long enigma of this mystic land." - from Chapter One . In this classic study, a noted mythologist made perhaps the first serious a ttempt to review the religious history of ancient Egypt in the light of the science of modern mythology. Instead of regarding Egyptian mythology and l egend as unique, "classic" and inviolate, as did many Egyptologists,... View More...
