MythologySince its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a perennial bestseller in its various available formats: hardcover, trade paperback, and mass market paperback. Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends that are the keystone of Western culture -- the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. This new Back Bay trade paperback edition of Mythology replaces the Meridian edition formerly available from the Penguin Group. In August 1998 a new mass market paperback edition of Mythology published by Warner Books will replace the Mentor/Dutton Signet mass market edition formerly available from the Penguin Group. |
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Page 69
... evil times and their nature too has much of evil , so that they never have rest from toil and sorrow . As the generations pass , they grow worse ; sons are always inferior to their fathers . A time will come when they have grown so ...
... evil times and their nature too has much of evil , so that they never have rest from toil and sorrow . As the generations pass , they grow worse ; sons are always inferior to their fathers . A time will come when they have grown so ...
Page 70
... evil to men , with a nature to do evil . Another story about Pandora is that the source of all misfor- tune was not her wicked nature , but only her curiosity . The gods presented her with a box into which each had put some- thing ...
... evil to men , with a nature to do evil . Another story about Pandora is that the source of all misfor- tune was not her wicked nature , but only her curiosity . The gods presented her with a box into which each had put some- thing ...
Page 300
... evil is hopeless . Nevertheless , the gods will fight for it to the end . Necessarily the same is true of humanity . If the gods are finally helpless before evil , men and women must be more so . The heroes and heroines of the early ...
... evil is hopeless . Nevertheless , the gods will fight for it to the end . Necessarily the same is true of humanity . If the gods are finally helpless before evil , men and women must be more so . The heroes and heroines of the early ...
Contents
FOREWORD V | 13 |
The Lesser Gods of Earth | 40 |
THE TWO GREAT GODS OF EARTH | 47 |
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