The Greek Myths (Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Graves, Robert; Riordan, Rick; MacDonald, Ross

• ISBN13: 9780143106715
• ISBN10: 0143106716
• Edition: Deluxe
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-24
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

The gold standard in Greek mythology, in a dazzling Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new introduction by the bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series From the creation of the world out of Chaos and the birth of the Olympians to the Trojan War and Odysseus's return, Robert Graves's superb retelling of the Greek myths has long been acclaimed as the definitive edition. Graves draws on sources scattered throughout ancient literature, using a novelist's skill to weave a crisp, coherent narrative of each myth and providing commentaries with cross-references, interpretations, and explanations based on solid scholarship. The result is a classic volume of many of the greatest stories ever told-stories of the gods, heroes, and extraordinary events that inspired Homer, the Greek tragedians, and so much of subsequent European literature.

Author Biography

Robert Graves (1895–1985) is the author of the historical novel I, Claudius, the classic war memoir Goodbye to All That, and more than 140 other published works, including translations of Homer and Suetonius for Penguin Classics.

Rick Riordan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. More than twenty million copies of his books are in print. Riordan lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Ross MacDonald is an illustrator, comic-book artist, and contributing editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review whose illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and Time, among other magazines. He lives in Connecticut.