Greek Myths

The Greek Myths" is the definitive and comprehensive edition of Robert Graves' classic imaginative and poetic retelling of the Greek myths. 'Icarus disobeyed his father's instructions and began soaring towards the sun rejoiced by the lift of his great sweeping wings. Presently when Daedalus looked over his shoulder he could no longer see Icarus; but scattered feathers floated on the waves below...' Including many of the 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' journey home - Robert Graves' superb and comprehensive retelling of the Greek myths for a modern audience has been regarded for over fifty years as the definitive version. With a novelist's skill and a poet's eye
Graves draws on the entire canon of ancient literature bringing together all the elements of every myth into one epic and unforgettable story. Ideal for the first time reader it can be read as a single continuous narrative while full commentaries with cross-references interpretations variants and explanations as well as a comprehensive index of names make it equally valuable as a work of scholarly reference for anyone seeking an authoritative and detailed account of the gods heroes and extraordinary events that provide the bedrock of Western literature. The result is a classic among classics a treasure trove of extraordinary tales and a masterful work of literature in its own right. "Among the most generous self-willed unseemly and brilliant writers of our century". ("New York Times").
Robert Graves (1895 - 1985) was a novelist poet historian critic and translator author of some 140 books and one of the greatest figures of 20th century British literature. Alongside "The Greek Myths" his most famous works include the historical novels "I Claudius and Claudius the God" and his First World War memoir "Goodbye to All That". His friendship with fellow war poet Siegfried Sassoon was the subject of Pat Barker's novel "Regeneration"."