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Author: Robert Graves
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Greek Gods and Heroes Description
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 292.13
EAN: 9780440932215
ISBN: 0440932211
Label: Laurel Leaf
Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 160
Publication Date: 1965-10-15
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Reading Level: Young Adult
Product Release Date: 1965-10-15
Studio: Laurel Leaf
Dewey Decimal Number: 292.13
EAN: 9780440932215
ISBN: 0440932211
Label: Laurel Leaf
Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 160
Publication Date: 1965-10-15
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Reading Level: Young Adult
Product Release Date: 1965-10-15
Studio: Laurel Leaf
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Customer Reviews of Greek Gods and Heroes
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Review Summary: Thrones of the Gods!
Review: This book is unique among books about Greek mythology because Robert Graves describes the gods' thrones! I find that information fascinating.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Excellent Learning Tool
Review: This is an excellent book to encourage your kids curiosity without them realizing that it is actually teaching Greek Mythology. I picked this up for my stepson after we read the first "Percy Jackson and the Olympians", so that we would both have a better understanding of Greek Mythology.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Bone-up on the Greek Gods and Heroes
Review: I was getting ready for a trip to Italy Greece and Turkey. Since my plans called for visiting a lot of temples and other historical sites I decided to take a refresher course on the revelant Gods and heroes. Since I'll read anything by Robert Graves this is the book I chose. It's a small, easy to carry/pack book but it contained enough info that I appeared a genius to my companions. In addition the stories are fun to read as Graves is a wonderful writer. The only reason I only give it 4 stars it that it's a very short book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The Greek divinities and the role of the hero!
Review: In Greece, the birth of the religion sinks in the prehistory and precedes by far, in many centuries to philosophy's appearance. So it looks so weird to us in the actual times to understand wholly the concepts of epiphany, cosmogony or primordial conscious.
When Plato talks about Lethes designing it the forgetfulness' river, he appeals to a visual metaphor, because somehow the innate capacity to incorporate the cosmogonist concepts simply are missed. The religion is conceived as the first pattern of the philosophy and not as a syncretism' product and the final crossroads of so many thinking mainstreams.
This fact is extremely important because far from enriching the religious principles, weakens them and denotes with all the inhospitable nakedness, the linguistic roots of religion: re-link and that presupposes the ineludible evidence that something missed along the journey.
I mean the mythic breath is the most powerful bound of the men to the cosmos. And God is not an isolated and far concept, beyond the human understanding, but it possesses human form according Blake's idea.
You can realize how Zeus's meaning is progressively increasing in power and supreme deity at the same speed that the Greeks get close to the Golden Age, the reason's moment and those epic achievements are confined to vibrant storytellers that evoke as Homer the ancient feats, unforgettable triumphs and monumental achievements as final designs of the inner will, conceived as the outer projection of the intimate Greek Gods desires, but never considered as inscrutable or imposed orders. The man emulates the Gods and consequently improves himself .
In fact you can realize that in the beginning the men and Gods had a same origin. And beware you are just original if you go to the origin ; that' s an interesting concept and not merely a pretty game of words.
The last meaning of energy, enthusiasm, the invisible force that makes to guard the weapon to Achilles, the fame according to Hesiod, the essential significance of the enthusiasm or the rapture state of the artist; in which the ecstasy is omnipresent: writing a poem, composing a musical score or painting on the top of the Sistine Chapel.
That explains the fact the river, the mountain, the wind or the tree are not unanimated things: they are living beings, animated by a mysterious spirit. The animism is universal in the Greeks' vital vision. According Hesiod the Gods have the same temperament, virtues and defects than the mortals, they only differentiate from the human beings in the fact they are Immortals.
In this sense I conceive the existence of the man in the Earth, still he knew his presence is brief and temporal in the world, he must overpass himself, leaving a trace and betting to improve himself day after day . It' s the Greek meaning of the term "Moira" , a destiny prefixed by the own will of every one of us and not imposed by an Ex Machine divinity.
The Greek Gods - in their most- vaguely intervened in the world but did not rule it.
That' s why the religion imposes through the years , the sense of the tragedy vanishes: the religious paradigm and the rationalism simply have flattened it.
The cathartic experience has dead. Long live to the cathartic experience.!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Entertaining, educational, and well-written
Review: A retelling of the classic Greek myths targeted at young adults.This book is very true to the original texts, with no effort made to spare the reader from the bloody details (and rightly so). When I was a child, the stories in this book were every bit as exciting to me as more modern tales, and I now realize that there's an educational component to them as well. It begins with a description of each of the major gods and goddesses, and goes chronologically through some of the history of their reign over earth. Graves has handled the ending with an imaginative and strangely touching account of how the gods fell from power:
"As soon as the Emporor Julian of Constantinople, the last of the Roman emporers to worship the Olympians, had been killed fighting the Persians in A.D. 363, Zeus was told by the Three Fates that his reign had ended-he and his friends must leave Olympus.
"Zeus angrily destroyed the palace with a thunderbolt, and they all went off to live among humble country people, hoping for better times. But christian missionaries chased them out with the sign of the Cross, and turned their temples into churches, which they divided among the leading saints. Mortals were now allowed to reckon by weeks again, as Prometheus the Titan had once taught them. The Olympians were forced to live in woods and caves, and have not been seen for centuries...".
If you're a parent choosing books for your child, you must include this book or something like it.
Review Summary: Thrones of the Gods!
Review: This book is unique among books about Greek mythology because Robert Graves describes the gods' thrones! I find that information fascinating.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Excellent Learning Tool
Review: This is an excellent book to encourage your kids curiosity without them realizing that it is actually teaching Greek Mythology. I picked this up for my stepson after we read the first "Percy Jackson and the Olympians", so that we would both have a better understanding of Greek Mythology.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Bone-up on the Greek Gods and Heroes
Review: I was getting ready for a trip to Italy Greece and Turkey. Since my plans called for visiting a lot of temples and other historical sites I decided to take a refresher course on the revelant Gods and heroes. Since I'll read anything by Robert Graves this is the book I chose. It's a small, easy to carry/pack book but it contained enough info that I appeared a genius to my companions. In addition the stories are fun to read as Graves is a wonderful writer. The only reason I only give it 4 stars it that it's a very short book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The Greek divinities and the role of the hero!
Review: In Greece, the birth of the religion sinks in the prehistory and precedes by far, in many centuries to philosophy's appearance. So it looks so weird to us in the actual times to understand wholly the concepts of epiphany, cosmogony or primordial conscious.
When Plato talks about Lethes designing it the forgetfulness' river, he appeals to a visual metaphor, because somehow the innate capacity to incorporate the cosmogonist concepts simply are missed. The religion is conceived as the first pattern of the philosophy and not as a syncretism' product and the final crossroads of so many thinking mainstreams.
This fact is extremely important because far from enriching the religious principles, weakens them and denotes with all the inhospitable nakedness, the linguistic roots of religion: re-link and that presupposes the ineludible evidence that something missed along the journey.
I mean the mythic breath is the most powerful bound of the men to the cosmos. And God is not an isolated and far concept, beyond the human understanding, but it possesses human form according Blake's idea.
You can realize how Zeus's meaning is progressively increasing in power and supreme deity at the same speed that the Greeks get close to the Golden Age, the reason's moment and those epic achievements are confined to vibrant storytellers that evoke as Homer the ancient feats, unforgettable triumphs and monumental achievements as final designs of the inner will, conceived as the outer projection of the intimate Greek Gods desires, but never considered as inscrutable or imposed orders. The man emulates the Gods and consequently improves himself .
In fact you can realize that in the beginning the men and Gods had a same origin. And beware you are just original if you go to the origin ; that' s an interesting concept and not merely a pretty game of words.
The last meaning of energy, enthusiasm, the invisible force that makes to guard the weapon to Achilles, the fame according to Hesiod, the essential significance of the enthusiasm or the rapture state of the artist; in which the ecstasy is omnipresent: writing a poem, composing a musical score or painting on the top of the Sistine Chapel.
That explains the fact the river, the mountain, the wind or the tree are not unanimated things: they are living beings, animated by a mysterious spirit. The animism is universal in the Greeks' vital vision. According Hesiod the Gods have the same temperament, virtues and defects than the mortals, they only differentiate from the human beings in the fact they are Immortals.
In this sense I conceive the existence of the man in the Earth, still he knew his presence is brief and temporal in the world, he must overpass himself, leaving a trace and betting to improve himself day after day . It' s the Greek meaning of the term "Moira" , a destiny prefixed by the own will of every one of us and not imposed by an Ex Machine divinity.
The Greek Gods - in their most- vaguely intervened in the world but did not rule it.
That' s why the religion imposes through the years , the sense of the tragedy vanishes: the religious paradigm and the rationalism simply have flattened it.
The cathartic experience has dead. Long live to the cathartic experience.!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Entertaining, educational, and well-written
Review: A retelling of the classic Greek myths targeted at young adults.This book is very true to the original texts, with no effort made to spare the reader from the bloody details (and rightly so). When I was a child, the stories in this book were every bit as exciting to me as more modern tales, and I now realize that there's an educational component to them as well. It begins with a description of each of the major gods and goddesses, and goes chronologically through some of the history of their reign over earth. Graves has handled the ending with an imaginative and strangely touching account of how the gods fell from power:
"As soon as the Emporor Julian of Constantinople, the last of the Roman emporers to worship the Olympians, had been killed fighting the Persians in A.D. 363, Zeus was told by the Three Fates that his reign had ended-he and his friends must leave Olympus.
"Zeus angrily destroyed the palace with a thunderbolt, and they all went off to live among humble country people, hoping for better times. But christian missionaries chased them out with the sign of the Cross, and turned their temples into churches, which they divided among the leading saints. Mortals were now allowed to reckon by weeks again, as Prometheus the Titan had once taught them. The Olympians were forced to live in woods and caves, and have not been seen for centuries...".
If you're a parent choosing books for your child, you must include this book or something like it.