Book · 1955 · Nonfiction

The Greek Myths

Name: The Greek Myths
Author: Robert Graves

Viking (Penguin Random House) · 784 pages

★ 5.9 editorial score

Graves retells every Greek myth, cites his ancient sources, then argues underneath that all of it encodes a matriarchal religion the Greeks overthrew. Generations of English readers got their mythology from him.

Subject

Mythology Myth Greece

Setting

Greece

Time

1955

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