Greek and Roman Mythology - World's Best Collection

Greek and Roman Mythology - World's Best Collection

by HesiodHomer Apulieus and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 19/07/2018

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The Ultimate Greek and Roman Mythology Collection


This is the world’s best Greek and Roman Mythology collection available, including the most complete set of all the ancient Greek and Roman writer’s works plus many extra free bonus materials.


The Most Complete Mythology Collection Available


In this irresistible, must-have collection you get All the Legendary Ancient Writers, such as Homer, Virgil and many more - All their plays, All their books, All their works and rarities all in one place. Plus Free Bonus Material.


Multiple Translations And Explanations Of Works


In addition, you will also get 2 other important benefits:


- Multiple translations of many of the works, covering their translation into Rhyming Verse, Blank Verse and Prose.


- In-Depth Footnotes, Introductions and Explanations.


Included Works:


Works Of Homer:

The Iliad

Alexander Pope Translation - Verse

Samuel Butler Translation - Prose

Earl Of Derby Translation - Verse

Lang, Leaf, Myers Translation - Prose

William Cowper Translation - Blank Verse


The Odyssey

Alexander Pope Translation - Verse

Samuel Butler Translation - Prose

Lang, Butcher Translation - Prose

William Cowper Translation - Blank Verse


Works Of Ovid:

Heorides

Ars Amorica, Amores (The Love Poems)

Metamorphoses


Works Of Sophocles:

The Oedipus Trilogy:

Antigone

King Oedipus

Oedipus At Colonos

Aias

Electra

The Trachinian Maidens

Philoctetes


Works Of Virgil:

The Aeneid - Prose

The Aeneid - Verse

Ecologues

Georgics


Works Of Apollonius:

Argonautica (Jason And The Argonauts,The Golden Fleece)


Works Of Quintus:

Posthomerica


Works Of Hesiod:

Work And Days

Theogony

Homerica And Hymns

(including many rarities such as ‘Contest between Hesiod and Homer’ and ‘the Small Iliad’)


Works Of Euripides:

Andromache

Rhesus

Hecuba

Ion

Heracles

Heracliedae

Helen

Electra

Cyclops

Alcestis

Orestes

Phoenissae

Medea

Hippolytus

Bacchae

Iphigenia In Aulide

Iphigenia In Tauris

Trojan Women


Works Of Apuleius:

The Golden Ass

Apologia (A Discourse In Magic)


Works Of Apollodorus:

Library


Works Of Aesop:

Complete Fables


Works Of Aeschylus:

Persians

Prometheus Bound

Seven Against Thebes

Suppliants

Agamemnon

Libation Bearers

Eumenides

Choepori


Works Of Aristophanes:

The Eleven Comedies


Plus:

Biographies of each of the Writers - Details of their colorful histories, intriguing personal lives and remarkable adventures in the ancient world.


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This is the best Greek and Roman Mythology collection you can get, so get it now and start enjoying and being inspired by the world of Heroes and Legends like never before!

ISBN:
9781928457237
9781928457237
Category:
Myth & legend told as fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
19-07-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Imagination Books
Hesiod

Hesiod, a contemporary of Homer, probably lived in the eighth century BC in the backwater of Askra, a hamlet in Boeotia, on the Greek mainland.

As the probable author of both the Theogony and Works and Days, he is the first self-styled poet in Western literature, the first to tell us his own name and the first to advertise himself as a prize-winning poet.

Homer

We know very little about the author of The Odyssey and its companion tale, The Iliad. Most scholars agree that Homer was Greek; those who try to identify his origin on the basis of dialect forms in the poems tend to choose as his homeland either Smyrna, now the Turkish city known as Izmir, or Chios, an island in the eastern Aegean Sea. According to legend, Homer was blind, though scholarly evidence can neither confirm nor contradict the point.

The ongoing debate about who Homer was, when he lived, and even if he wrote The Odyssey and The Iliad is known as the "Homeric question." Classicists do agree that these tales of the fall of the city of Troy (Ilium) in the Trojan War (The Iliad) and the aftermath of that ten-year battle (The Odyssey) coincide with the ending of the Mycenaean period around 1200 BCE (a date that corresponds with the end of the Bronze Age throughout the Eastern Mediterranean). The Mycenaeans were a society of warriors and traders; beginning around 1600 BCE, they became a major power in the Mediterranean. Brilliant potters and architects, they also developed a system of writing known as Linear B, based on a syllabary, writing in which each symbol stands for a syllable.

Scholars disagree on when Homer lived or when he might have written The Odyssey. Some have placed Homer in the late-Mycenaean period, which means he would have written about the Trojan War as recent history. Close study of the texts, however, reveals aspects of political, material, religious, and military life of the Bronze Age and of the so-called Dark Age, as the period of domination by the less-advanced Dorian invaders who usurped the Mycenaeans is known. But how, other scholars argue, could Homer have created works of such magnitude in the Dark Age, when there was no system of writing? Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian, placed Homer sometime around the ninth century BCE, at the beginning of the Archaic period, in which the Greeks adopted a system of writing from the Phoenicians and widely colonized the Mediterranean. And modern scholarship shows that the most recent details in the poems are datable to the period between 750 and 700 BCE.

No one, however, disputes the fact that The Odyssey (and The Iliad as well) arose from oral tradition. Stock phrases, types of episodes, and repeated phrases such as "early, rose-fingered dawn" bear the mark of epic storytelling. Scholars agree, too, that this tale of the Greek hero Odysseus's journey and adventures as he returned home from Troy to Ithaca is a work of the greatest historical significance and, indeed, one of the foundations of Western literature.

Euripides

Euripides (c.485-07 BC) was an Athenian born into a family of considerable rank. Disdaining the public duties expected of him, Euripides spent a life of quiet introspection, spending much of his life in a cave on Salamis.

Late in life he voluntarily exiled himself to the court of Archelaus, King of Macedon, where he wrote The Bacchae, regarded by many as his greatest work. Euripides is thought to have written 92 plays, only 18 of which survive.

Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro – or Virgil – was born near Mantua in 70 BC and was brought up there, although he attended schools in Cremona and Rome. Virgil’s rural upbringing and his affinity with the countryside are evident in his earliest work, The Eclogues, a collection of ten pastoral poems.

As an adult Virgil lived mostly in Naples, although he spent time in Rome and belonged to the circle of influential poets that included Horace. He also had connections to leading men within the senatorial class and to the Emperor Augustus himself. Following The Eclogues, Virgil wrote The Georgics, a didactic poem, and thereafter began his longest and most ambitious work, The Aeneid. He died in Brindisi in 19 BC.

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