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Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 430 times as myth)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,348,295 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as myth)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,986,365 ratings — published 2011
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as myth)
avg rating 4.10 — 343,209 ratings — published 2017
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 259 times as myth)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,438,107 ratings — published 2005
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as myth)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,193,015 ratings — published -800
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 185 times as myth)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,367,028 ratings — published 2006
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as myth)
avg rating 3.93 — 509,766 ratings — published -800
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 176 times as myth)
avg rating 4.26 — 162,506 ratings — published 2017
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 172 times as myth)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,216,420 ratings — published 2007
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 167 times as myth)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,218,141 ratings — published 2008
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 163 times as myth)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,148,059 ratings — published 2009
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as myth)
avg rating 3.78 — 146,309 ratings — published 2021
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as myth)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,783 ratings — published 1988
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 147 times as myth)
avg rating 4.10 — 990,902 ratings — published 2001
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as myth)
avg rating 4.13 — 45,049 ratings — published 1949
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as myth)
avg rating 3.71 — 87,033 ratings — published 2005
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as myth)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,072 ratings — published -2000
Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as myth)
avg rating 4.04 — 59,974 ratings — published 1942
The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 129 times as myth)
avg rating 4.29 — 940,787 ratings — published 2010
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as myth)
avg rating 4.05 — 90,066 ratings — published 2019
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 121 times as myth)
avg rating 3.89 — 112,232 ratings — published 2018
The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus, #2)
by (shelved 112 times as myth)
avg rating 4.40 — 667,845 ratings — published 2011
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as myth)
avg rating 3.50 — 346,702 ratings — published 1000
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as myth)
avg rating 3.78 — 76,858 ratings — published 2022
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as myth)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,337 ratings — published 8
The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus, #3)
by (shelved 103 times as myth)
avg rating 4.47 — 674,445 ratings — published 2012
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 103 times as myth)
avg rating 3.87 — 143,477 ratings — published -19
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 94 times as myth)
avg rating 3.93 — 123,601 ratings — published 2013
Clytemnestra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as myth)
avg rating 4.22 — 57,722 ratings — published 2023
The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, #4)
by (shelved 89 times as myth)
avg rating 4.57 — 483,297 ratings — published 2013
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as myth)
avg rating 4.20 — 80,324 ratings — published 1956
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
by (shelved 87 times as myth)
avg rating 4.31 — 59,998 ratings — published 2018
The Witch's Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as myth)
avg rating 4.04 — 61,922 ratings — published 2021
The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as myth)
avg rating 4.10 — 426,093 ratings — published 2010
Atalanta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as myth)
avg rating 3.74 — 35,109 ratings — published 2023
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as myth)
avg rating 4.22 — 26,586 ratings — published 2020
The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)
by (shelved 70 times as myth)
avg rating 4.43 — 391,084 ratings — published 2014
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as myth)
avg rating 4.11 — 95,987 ratings — published 1992
Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
by (shelved 67 times as myth)
avg rating 4.35 — 42,819 ratings — published 2020
The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as myth)
avg rating 4.23 — 240,551 ratings — published 2015
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as myth)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,750 ratings — published 1220
The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as myth)
avg rating 4.13 — 231,429 ratings — published 2016
The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as myth)
avg rating 4.18 — 228,430 ratings — published 2011
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as myth)
avg rating 3.88 — 77,423 ratings — published 2019
The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 53 times as myth)
avg rating 4.27 — 181,149 ratings — published 2012
The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
by (shelved 51 times as myth)
avg rating 3.83 — 28,902 ratings — published 2021
Neon Gods (Dark Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as myth)
avg rating 3.68 — 308,407 ratings — published 2021
Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as myth)
avg rating 3.69 — 14,197 ratings — published 2022
“Josh tasted the decaying leaves of autumn in the cold mountain air.”
― Down in the Valley
― Down in the Valley
“This century will be called Darwin's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. Write the name of Charles Darwin on the one hand and the name of every theologian who ever lived on the other, and from that name has come more light to the world than from all of those. His doctrine of evolution, his doctrine of the survival of the fittest, his doctrine of the origin of species, has removed in every thinking mind the last vestige of orthodox Christianity. He has not only stated, but he has demonstrated, that the inspired writer knew nothing of this world, nothing of the origin of man, nothing of geology, nothing of astronomy, nothing of nature; that the Bible is a book written by ignorance--at the instigation of fear. Think of the men who replied to him. Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin, and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task. He was held up to the ridicule, the scorn and contempt of the Christian world, and yet when he died, England was proud to put his dust with that of her noblest and her grandest. Charles Darwin conquered the intellectual world, and his doctrines are now accepted facts. His light has broken in on some of the clergy, and the greatest man who to-day occupies the pulpit of one of the orthodox churches, Henry Ward Beecher, is a believer in the theories of Charles Darwin--a man of more genius than all the clergy of that entire church put together.
...The church teaches that man was created perfect, and that for six thousand years he has degenerated. Darwin demonstrated the falsity of this dogma. He shows that man has for thousands of ages steadily advanced; that the Garden of Eden is an ignorant myth; that the doctrine of original sin has no foundation in fact; that the atonement is an absurdity; that the serpent did not tempt, and that man did not 'fall.'
Charles Darwin destroyed the foundation of orthodox Christianity. There is nothing left but faith in what we know could not and did not happen. Religion and science are enemies. One is a superstition; the other is a fact. One rests upon the false, the other upon the true. One is the result of fear and faith, the other of investigation and reason.”
― Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters On the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--Etc. Etc. Etc, Volume 2
...The church teaches that man was created perfect, and that for six thousand years he has degenerated. Darwin demonstrated the falsity of this dogma. He shows that man has for thousands of ages steadily advanced; that the Garden of Eden is an ignorant myth; that the doctrine of original sin has no foundation in fact; that the atonement is an absurdity; that the serpent did not tempt, and that man did not 'fall.'
Charles Darwin destroyed the foundation of orthodox Christianity. There is nothing left but faith in what we know could not and did not happen. Religion and science are enemies. One is a superstition; the other is a fact. One rests upon the false, the other upon the true. One is the result of fear and faith, the other of investigation and reason.”
― Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters On the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--Etc. Etc. Etc, Volume 2













