Acquired today.
Creation myths, nature and fertility myths, the legends of heroes, heroines, monsters, gods and goddesses, myths about the founding and fall of cities, shrines and temples, nations and empires, tales of epic journeys and impossible quests. Stories told, retold, reinvented and rediscovered over millennia, retold one more time, and why not?
It's been a couple of decades, or three, since I last read Homer, Virgil, Hesiod or Ovid, et al, so now seems like a good time to revisit those stories by other means, through other voices.
I've no doubt reading these will have me delving back into the Penguin Classics versions, or possibly OUP Classics, in the weeks and months ahead.
Creation myths, nature and fertility myths, the legends of heroes, heroines, monsters, gods and goddesses, myths about the founding and fall of cities, shrines and temples, nations and empires, tales of epic journeys and impossible quests. Stories told, retold, reinvented and rediscovered over millennia, retold one more time, and why not?
It's been a couple of decades, or three, since I last read Homer, Virgil, Hesiod or Ovid, et al, so now seems like a good time to revisit those stories by other means, through other voices.
I've no doubt reading these will have me delving back into the Penguin Classics versions, or possibly OUP Classics, in the weeks and months ahead.
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