John from the Turbine Electric City: I have had a copy of Edith for decades. Replaced worn edition.
United States on Nov 26, 2023
Fogerty 1: My Grandson is studying Mythology in school now and really enjoyed reading this book.
United States on Nov 24, 2023
Scotty and Rachel: It enchants the imagination in just the right way for young minds that could most likely use a break from being constantly plugged in. The author must have gotten something right because they made her an honorary citizen of Greece!
United States on Sep 27, 2023
G D Lever: Ok as expected.
United Kingdom on Aug 14, 2023
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Japan on Mar 07, 2023
Malissa J.: This book is not what I expected but it isn’t bad either. It’s not just a book of tales. There is a long historical introduction and that kind of ruined the excitement for me. If you like the history and reasoning more than the actual stories, this may be the book for you. It’s also not really an easy read- a lot of heavy verbiage- similar to reading Shakespeare, it’s just very artsy. I personally think there are better books out there.
Canada on Nov 15, 2022
J$B: Easy to find online references for individual myths, often more thorough, but Hamilton and Bullfinch were the books we had kicking around the house in childhood, pulling the stories together. Of those two, Hamilton is better at identifying the mainly Greek sources she relied on - it's worth reading her Introduction as to why she preferred gifted Greeks who believed in their gods, heroes and myths to the poetic Romans who rehashed them for "literary" purposes. The section on more thinly recorded Norse mythology is shorter.
Canada on Apr 17, 2022
Stephen H.: I wanted a primer on the Greek and Roman mythologies. This, by recommendation, seemed to be the best at a reasonable price.
What a disappointment though. I feel now just as ignorant of the stories of the Gods as I did at the start.
To put this in context I have recently read the Odyssey and feel I have a reasonable grasp of the story. Just flicking back through 'Mythology' I found that I had read the story here. Obviously none of the story had filtered into my brain. This is that same with any other story in this book.
I find Hamilton's style a little disturbing. Sometimes sentences are long and rambling and not well punctuated requiring them to be read several times before getting any sense of their meaning. It is not necessarily that the language is archaic because it isn't but it sometimes does not flow well.
My copy of Odyssey (translated by Samuel Butler) does use archaic language and I can live with that. The downside to Butler's translation is that it using Roman texts for the story.
This leads to another problem with 'Mythologies' in that Hamilton refers to both Greek and Latin origins, all clearly marked in the introductions to each story, and then retells...
United Kingdom on May 25, 2020
artemis 1291: The essence of myths is threefold: it is a branch of natural science, trying to explain what humans saw around them. It is also a genre of pure classical literature. Besides, mythology is religion, the deepening realization of what human beings needed in their gods and goddesses. In this light, Edith Hamilton’s Mythology breathes life into the Greek, Roman, and even Norse myths, which are the bedrock of the western civilization – the stories of gods, goddesses, and heroes that have imbued the humankind with multifarious creativity from time immemorial to present.
The aim of this book is to produce knowledge of the myths that had been recorded by ancient writers and poets. In fact, the myths as we know now are the creation of great poets, one of which is the Iliad by Homer. Unlike the Egyptian, the Greeks made their gods in their own image and breathed them with their emotions and feelings. It is uncertain how the genesis of the Greek mythology came into being; however the earliest Greek poets arrived at a new point of view which had never been dreamed of in the world before them. It was at this point that mankind regarded itself as the center of the universe, intent...
United States on Feb 27, 2018
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| Total Reviews | 73 reviews | 1 reviews | 1 reviews |
| Item Weight | 9.7 ounces | 13.4 ounces | 11.2 ounces |
| Dimensions | 4.1 x 1.25 x 7.5 inches | 5.55 x 1.13 x 8.25 inches | 5.02 x 0.77 x 7.73 inches |
| Classic Literature & Fiction | Classic Literature & Fiction | Classic Literature & Fiction | |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6/5 stars of 5,258 ratings | 4.6/5 stars of 73,754 ratings | 4.5/5 stars of 22,725 ratings |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0446574754 | 978-0316556323 | 978-0143111399 |
| ISBN-10 | 0446574759 | 0316556327 | 0143111396 |
| Publisher | Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition | Back Bay Books; Reprint edition | Penguin Books |
| Best Sellers Rank | #4 in Classic Greek Literature#33 in Folklore & Mythology Studies#581 in Classic Literature & Fiction | #29 in Folklore #47 in Classic Literature & Fiction#146 in Literary Fiction | #26 in Religious Historical Fiction #510 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction#958 in Literary Fiction |
| Mass Market Paperback | 512 pages | ||
| Language | English | English | English |
| Folklore & Mythology Studies | Folklore & Mythology Studies | ||
| Classic Greek Literature | Classic Greek Literature | ||
| Lexile measure | 1040L | HL660L |
United States on Dec 12, 2023