‘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…’ So begins just one of the extraordinary tales gathered in Robert Graves’s landmark retelling — the most complete and authoritative edition of the Greek myths ever assembled. From the labours of Hercules and the voyage of the Argonauts, to Theseus and the minotaur, Midas and his golden touch, the Trojan War and Odysseus’s long journey home, these stories form the very bedrock of Western literature, woven here into a single, sweeping narrative that reads with the momentum of an epic novel. New readers will find themselves carried effortlessly from one myth to the next, while scholars and enthusiasts are equally well served by the full commentaries and comprehensive index of names that make this edition an indispensable reference. A masterwork of literature in its own right as much as a treasury of ancient storytelling, The Greek Myths is a classic among classics — unforgettable, essential, and unlike anything else on the shelf.
ISBN 13: 9780241982358
Author: Robert Graves
