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The radiant retelling of the central Greek common myths by acclaimed novelist John Spurling, writer of The Ten 1000 Things, victor of the 2015 Walter Scott Reward for Historical Fiction. The traditional Greek intellectual tradition pervades nearly every part in our modern American civilization. Our reasoning and science, our philosophy, politics, literature, structures, and art are all indebted to the traditional inhabitants of the tiny mountainous Mediterranean country. Plus the powerful common myths of the Greeks, refined by Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, and the great Greek dramatists, still resonate at the central in our culture. Taking as his starting point lots of the famous vacationer sites in the Peloponnese, where in fact the stories are establish, John Spurling freshly imagines key narratives from the Greek canon, including stories of the doomed house of Atreus (notably Agamemnon, head of the Greeks at Troy, murdered by his wife in his palace bathroom) and of the god Apollo; the goddess Athene; Theseus, scourge of the Minotaur; the Twelve Labors of Heracles; and Perseus, rescuer of Andromeda. With this vibrant, gripping, and often grisly retelling of the Greek common myths, reviews of murder, power, revenge, love, and traumatic family relationships are created new again for our time with wit and relish with a gifted creator. Spurling has added arena, dialogue, and context while always remaining true to the heart of the initial myth.
