The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
This episode of ReadingforWisdom focuses on the reading of mythology and why it matters. In the episode we discuss Robert Graves’ 1955 “The Greek Myths”, Jason Boyett’s 2016 “Lust Chaos War Fate: Timeless Tales from the Ancients”, and the gorgeous 2003 volume “Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies” edited by Alice Mills.
As a correction, I state in the video that Robert Graves’ mythology opus came out in the inter-war period. Oops; his seminal historical works “I, Claudius” and “Claudius the God” came out between WWI and WWII, but “The Greek Myths” came later, though built upon the local research he conducted in Greece after moving there in the late 1920s. “The Greek Myths” is available in a range of editions, some illustrated, and has never been out of print since its original publication (I feature the Pelican editions from the late 1960s in the video).
There is a wealth of Gravesean resources on the internet. The Robert Graves Foundation https://www.fundaciorobertgraves.org/en/ has lots to explore; Oxford University hosts a digital archive of his ‘war poetry’ http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/colle... where he sits alongside greats like his friends Wilfred Owen and Seigfried Sassoon; a British TV interview with the great poet is at • Poet | Robert Graves Interview |1975 ; you can find a thread to the stellar BBC production of Graves’ “I, Claudius” through • I, Claudius A Touch of Murder Ep1 ; and finally there’s an epic reading of “The Greek Myths” by Adam Hall at • Video .
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