Ebook: Gods and Heroes: the Story of Greek Mythology

The travelling storyteller combined many talents: scholar, educator, linguist, poet and musician. He showed learning, curiosity and judgement, but most of all he could not resist a good story. True to their original telling and stripped of the sanitization of later centuries, these powerful tales make compelling reading. The traveller's tales are shaped by the landscape, character, tradition and weather of the stops along his journey: standing below the snow-streaked, cloud-capped massif of Olympus, he feels the awe and majesty of the gods. In the wilderness of Thessaly, menaced by bears.;Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Map; PART ONE -- THE HEAVENLY ONES; 1 The Ancient Ones; 2 The Struggle; 3 Walking the Country of the Gods; 4 The Summit; 5 The Hour of the Women; 6 Mysteries; PART TWO -- HEROES IN THE LANDS OF THE GODS; 7 Life and Death; 8 Foundations; 9 Homeland; 10 The Hero of the Gods; 11 The Voyagers; 12 The Tale of Troy; 13 Wandering Men; Index.