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Description
A new trade paperback edition of Edith Hamilton's world-renowned classic--a book that has enthralled and delighted generations of readers with its timeless tales of gods and heroes. 50 line drawings.
Cast of Characters/Important People
Memorable Quotes
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“Look at your Apollo, the sun-bright Lord of the Lyre, the pure God of Truth”
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“That was not a Hebrew idea, it was Greek”
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“The sculptor watched the athletes contending in the games and he felt that nothing he could imagine would be as beautiful as those strong young bodies”
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“Mankind's chief hope of escaping the wrath of whatever divinities were then abroad lay in some magical rite, senseless but powerful, or in some offering made at the cost of pain and grief”
First Sentence
GREEK and Roman mythology is quite generally supposed to show us the way the human race thought and felt untold ages ago.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Edith Hamilton (Author)
- Steele Savage
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