Theseus’s governing style still defines how humans envision the perfect leadership qualities. Readers may see Perseus’s tale retold elsewhere centuries later as a Grimm fairy tale. Best of all Hamilton cites her sources to best home in on the core of each myth, restated from its best version, often quoting key passages verbatim. Per Hamilton, “Roman and Greek mythology is quite generally supposed to show us the way the human race thought and felt untold ages ago.” Hamilton’s work is a secondary source–she read and interpreted the works of ancient historians, writers, playwrights, and poets, and distills these stories into their core tale, all from the likes of Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Aristophanes and Apollonius of Rhodes, Apuleus, Lucian and Ovid, Apollodorus, Plutarch and Virgil. And so much of our daily lives are derived from the myths captured in this book. But what you should know if you haven’t read it yet is how completely readable, easy to understand, and enjoyable it is. With a stylized art deco look and illustrations by Jim Tierney, this is the definitive edition of this landmark work. It’s now available from publisher Black Dog and Leventhal (order it here at Amazon) as the perfect gift, one every household should own, a copper-foiled hardbound edition first published in 2017 and worthy of commemorating 75 years of educating the world about the intellectual adventure of ancient man. In 1942 after writing three other works on the ancient world, educator and classicist Edith Hamilton bundled together her research into the Greek myths to create her book, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. Yet for eight decades many have turned to one source. Even if you get a history degree in college you only touch on the Greek myths by way of the ancient historians who documented these age old stories from the oral tradition. But not everyone digs deep into the subject. Suddenly you want to know how Hercules related to Zeus and you draw Cyclops on everything. At some point early in life every kid gets the bug for Greek mythology.
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