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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Rex WarnerPublisher: Pearson Education Limited Imprint: Heinemann Dimensions: Width: 12.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 18.80cm Weight: 0.260kg ISBN: 9780435120122ISBN 10: 0435120123 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 01 January 1968 Recommended Age: From 13 To 99 Audience: Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Secondary Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroductionCamdusActaeon Pentheus Baucis and Philemon Daedalus and Icarus Perseus Ceres and Proserpine Phaethon The Great Flood Jason - The Voyage of the Argonauts -The Golden Fleece - Jason and Medea Echo and NarcissusThe Story of Theseus- His Journey to Athens - Theseus and the Minotaur - Thesus, King of Athens Orpheus and Eurydice The Labours of Hercules The Death of Hercules Cephalus and Procris Arachne Acis and Galatea Glaucus and Scylla Bellerophon Midas Atlanta's Race Ceyx and Halcyone Oedipus The Seven Against Thebes Antigone Who's whoReviewsIn first place, the stories are beautiful and satisfying in themselves. In the second place, they have deeply affected our own literature. -Rex Warner Shakespeare, Shelley, Tennyson and many others got their knowledge of Greek mythology from the often ironical-and always sophisticated-narratives of Ovid...Detail after detail fixes these myths in the memory...The Golden Age of Greece is dim today, but in Gods and Men the golden apples still shine upon the bough. - The New York Times Rex Warner retells thirty-eight famous myths of ancient Greece that ought to be the intellectual heritage of all the young. - The New York Times The British critic V. S. Pritchett once described Mr. Warner as 'the only outstanding novelist of ideas whom the decade of ideas produced.' - The New York Times In first place, the stories are beautiful and satisfying in themselves. In the second place, they have deeply affected our own literature. -Rex Warner <br> Shakespeare, Shelley, Tennyson and many others got their knowledge of Greek mythology from the often ironical-and always sophisticated-narratives of Ovid...Detail after detail fixes these myths in the memory...The Golden Age of Greece is dim today, but in Gods and Men the golden apples still shine upon the bough. - The New York Times <br> Rex Warner retells thirty-eight famous myths of ancient Greece that ought to be the intellectual heritage of all the young. - The New York Times <br> The British critic V. S. Pritchett once described Mr. Warner as 'the only outstanding novelist of ideas whom the decade of ideas produced.' - The New York Times """ In first place, the stories are beautiful and satisfying in themselves. In the second place, they have deeply affected our own literature."" - Rex Warner "" Shakespeare, Shelley, Tennyson and many others got their knowledge of Greek mythology from the often ironical- and always sophisticated- narratives of Ovid... Detail after detail fixes these myths in the memory... The Golden Age of Greece is dim today, but in ""Gods and Men"" the golden apples still shine upon the bough."" - ""The New York Times"" "" Rex Warner retells thirty-eight famous myths of ancient Greece that ought to be the intellectual heritage of all the young."" - ""The New York Times"" "" The British critic V. S. Pritchett once described Mr. Warner as ' the only outstanding novelist of ideas whom the decade of ideas produced.' "" - ""The New York Times"" ""In first place, the stories are beautiful and satisfying in themselves. In the second place, they have deeply affected our own literature."" -Rex Warner ""Shakespeare, Shelley, Tennyson and many others got their knowledge of Greek mythology from the often ironical-and always sophisticated-narratives of Ovid...Detail after detail fixes these myths in the memory...The Golden Age of Greece is dim today, but in ""Gods and Men"" the golden apples still shine upon the bough."" -""The New York Times"" ""Rex Warner retells thirty-eight famous myths of ancient Greece that ought to be the intellectual heritage of all the young."" -""The New York Times"" ""The British critic V. S. Pritchett once described Mr. Warner as 'the only outstanding novelist of ideas whom the decade of ideas produced.'"" -""The New York Times""" Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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