Review of "D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths" on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
This book is a short story collection of heroic gods and their petty feuds. Even if we don't follow Greek Mythologies actively, we are exposed to movies like "Thor", "Clash of the titans", "Wrath of the titans" through which we get to know about Greek characters.
A lot of things around the world are named after greek mythological characters.
Apollo - NASA’s space craft is named after greek god.
Amazon - are warriors in Greek mythology
Phoebe - the famous character in the sitcom F.R.I.E.N.D.S is a greek goddess as well.
From NASA’s space craft to Amazon Web Services’ s Athena.
The greeks mythology has a story for everything, from the formation of earth, mountains, volcanoes and seas to how the practise of keeping a “coin” on the dead bodies started
What surprised me the most was that, even famous stories like "The King Midas and his golden touch" had …
This book is a short story collection of heroic gods and their petty feuds. Even if we don't follow Greek Mythologies actively, we are exposed to movies like "Thor", "Clash of the titans", "Wrath of the titans" through which we get to know about Greek characters.
A lot of things around the world are named after greek mythological characters.
Apollo - NASA’s space craft is named after greek god.
Amazon - are warriors in Greek mythology
Phoebe - the famous character in the sitcom F.R.I.E.N.D.S is a greek goddess as well.
From NASA’s space craft to Amazon Web Services’ s Athena.
The greeks mythology has a story for everything, from the formation of earth, mountains, volcanoes and seas to how the practise of keeping a “coin” on the dead bodies started
What surprised me the most was that, even famous stories like "The King Midas and his golden touch" had belonged to the greek lores. And what not, I have heard this story in Tamil titled, "ராஜா காது கழுதை காது"(The king has donkey ears) during my childhood, was surprised again to find that even this story had belonged to the greek mythical lores.
This book was a delightful and amusing read.
