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The Macmillan Collection of Greek Myths: A luxurious and beautiful gift edition
A beautifully read audio treasury featuring an array of incredible stories, this is the ultimate collection of Greek Myths for mythology lovers of all ages.
Orpheus and Eurydice, Persephone, Theseus and the Minotaur, The Golden Fleece, Perseus and Arachne . . . All the best-known Greek Myths are here, alongside extracts from The Iliad and The Odyssey.
The companion book to The Macmillan Fairy Tales Collection and The Macmillan Collection of Myths and Legends.
Orpheus and Eurydice, Persephone, Theseus and the Minotaur, The Golden Fleece, Perseus and Arachne . . . All the best-known Greek Myths are here, alongside extracts from The Iliad and The Odyssey.
The companion book to The Macmillan Fairy Tales Collection and The Macmillan Collection of Myths and Legends.
352 pages, Hardcover
Published February 11, 2025
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December 6, 2023
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Macmillan's collections - Fairy Tales and Myths and Legends - have become one of the highlights of the winter season. Greek Myths stands tall with these fabulous books. Our colour theme this year is bronze and silver, with gold on the spredges and a bronze coloured ribbon. (For comparison, Myths was blue and silver in basically every aspect, and Fairy Tales was gold.)
A few of the stories from Myths show up again here, expanded and lengthened - Thesus' adventure in particular is much longer than the last version. Since these are explicitly Greek, there's no place name with each story, but we do have a map at the start of the book which features most of the places named in the stories. The forward by Joseph Coelho points out how these stories remain relevant and how there are echoes of them in a lot of modern tales as well.
One of my favourite things about these volumes is that they use illustrations from across the history of Macmillan, so the same story might have two or three images in different styles - reading that back, you would think they'd clash, but actually they work beautifully together.
This is an amazing addition to the collection; I can't imagine how Macmillan will better it next year, but I look forward to spending many hours with this one and its' sisters. This should definitely be on your Christmas lists.
Macmillan's collections - Fairy Tales and Myths and Legends - have become one of the highlights of the winter season. Greek Myths stands tall with these fabulous books. Our colour theme this year is bronze and silver, with gold on the spredges and a bronze coloured ribbon. (For comparison, Myths was blue and silver in basically every aspect, and Fairy Tales was gold.)
A few of the stories from Myths show up again here, expanded and lengthened - Thesus' adventure in particular is much longer than the last version. Since these are explicitly Greek, there's no place name with each story, but we do have a map at the start of the book which features most of the places named in the stories. The forward by Joseph Coelho points out how these stories remain relevant and how there are echoes of them in a lot of modern tales as well.
One of my favourite things about these volumes is that they use illustrations from across the history of Macmillan, so the same story might have two or three images in different styles - reading that back, you would think they'd clash, but actually they work beautifully together.
This is an amazing addition to the collection; I can't imagine how Macmillan will better it next year, but I look forward to spending many hours with this one and its' sisters. This should definitely be on your Christmas lists.
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