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Myths: Tales of the Greek and Roman Gods Hardcover – Illustrated, September 1, 2008

by Lucia Impelluso (Author), Rosanna Giammanco (Translator)

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From the same series as Abrams’ successful Saints and Angels comes Myths: Tales of the Greek and Roman Gods, richly illustrated with representations of these celestial heralds from ancient murals and pottery to the paintings of Gustav Klimt and Odilon Redon.

Author and art historian Lucia Impelluso has drawn from a variety of sources, including the plays of Euripides and Aeschylus, the epics of Homer and Virgil, Aesop’s fables, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Petrarch’s sonnets, and the works of Pindar, Sophocles, Plutarch, Pliny the Elder, and Bocaccio.

Beginning with the stories of Earth’s creation and its early rulers, the Titans, Impelluso recounts the major episodes and figures of Greek and Roman mythology, with sections on the gods of the sky, the sea, the earth, and the underworld; the Fates and the Muses; monsters; human heroes; and the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. Here are beloved stories, retold and illustrated in a wonderful, giftable format.

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Lucia Impelluso is an architect and art historian whose previous books include Gods and Heroes in Art, Nature and Its Symbols, and Gardens in Art.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Abrams Books; Illustrated edition (September 1, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 780 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810971445
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810971448
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.5 x 2.25 x 6 inches

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sarah riegelmann

Terrific!

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2023

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There was a minor problem with the book that could only be detected by careful inspection. Para Faciem addressed it promptly and graciously. I would recommend them to any book lover!

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2013

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I LOVE this book! It tells the story of each of the Greek/Roman gods with a lot of detail, even giving us more than one version of some of the stories (some of the gods and goddesses have a slightly different story depending on the culture they are worshiped in). The author also organizes the book well by telling us which gods were related and which were married. It also has a very thorough index in the back.

The artwork is amazing! The author gives us tons of photos of beautiful paintings, sculptures, etc. that were made to depict the gods and other mythical figures. So this book is great for art lovers, too.

It would be nice if the book was a little bigger- maybe the author will come out with a bigger version. It's very thick, but small. In a way though, the small size is cute.

Overall, this is the best Greek/Roman mythology book I've ever read- and I've read a lot!!

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cghensley

love it

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2014

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great classic illustrations reflective of mythology; the size is really small, but I actually think it makes it quirky and cute (other reviewers weren't fans of the size; if you have trouble reading small print, it might be an issue). I love it!

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Sean

Amazing compilation

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2011

This book contains nearly every info on nearly every Greek and Roman in existence as well as very high quality photos of the priceless art they're depicted in. While the book is very thick, the size of the paper is about 5x7. While some may not like this (as one reviewer doesn't) since it's hard to do justice to the beautiful art, I think the size makes the book more charming and more portable. I hate giant coffee-table books that you feel like a child reading anywhere away from the couch. Also, you can still get a very good sense of all the details of the artwork. Sometimes art takes up the whole page but I think it's a worthy trade off. It's very understandable with the size they made the book as well because it would've been MUCH more expensive if the book were larger. At roughly 750 pages, with very high detailed art on glossy pages, this book is a steal. My only complaint is that I wish the book had more info and narrative on the myths each figure is portrayed in. The book doesn't go much in depth of the myths themselves. However, it still covers more than the basics and is a perfect book for anyone interested in learning Greek myth, and even for the Classics enthusiast since it's also a vast compilation of sculpture and Renaissance art of every figure in Greek and Roman myth.

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Night Owl

Publisher missed a great opportunity for a spectacular book

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2011

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I have very mixed feelings about this book. It's very seductive with its nearly 800 pages filled with reproductions of superb art illustrating so many myths and mythological figures. Every time you turn a page, there is a fantastic full-color illustration. And the book is printed on the highest quality glossy paper.

This book is like an exciting kaleidoscope of mythology. It imprints those myths in your memory through the beautiful images. I recommend this book for those reasons.

But it is also hugely annoying to me that the book is so small (the size of pages is only 4.5 inches by 6 inches). Who on earth would be so stingy and mindless to publish a gorgeous book like this in a "toy" format? This book needs to be re-published in normal size -- not a coffee table book size necessarily, but something like 8 x 10 inches at least. Or make it even a coffee table book; it's worth it. I'd rather pay twice as much, or more, but have a book that I and my family can truly cherish and revisit over the years.

I will gladly buy another copy of this book if they republish it in bigger size.

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roger g

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2016

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It's an interesting book but I was looking for a specific myth by Ovid that was barely touched

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Marcos Lopez

gorgeous pictures, awful book format

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2011

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The pictures are gorgeous; I find a kind of short the text. Sometimes I think I'm watching a picture book with footnotes. I'd like to see more narrative.

But what really needs to be fixed is the format (book size); It does not make justice to the pictures which are often split in two pages.

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Karen

Happy to have this

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2019

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So informative

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Enigma8888

Beautiful

Reviewed in Spain on September 1, 2019

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Wonderful illustration

Ashtree

Nice (but a larger version would be better!)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2013

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This little book would be equally acceptable to anyone with an interest in either art or mythology. Since I'm interested in both, it really hits the spot for me.

It's 'little' in height and width, but still quite a thick book - more than 750 pages of glossy quality paper (the actual dimensions are 11.4 x 4.8 x 15.2 cm).

As you'll see from my little video 'browse', the general format is that in each set of pages the left-hand side gives information about a mythological character or story, while the right-hand side shows the character/incident as depicted by an artist (usually an Old Master painting, though there are a few relatively modern pictures and also examples of ancient art and sculpture.)

The high-quality paper and hard cover make this a surprisingly weighty book for its size, and all in all I regard it as a real bargain at this price.

However, it's not perfect. The main problem (for me) is that the illustrations inevitably suffer by being shrunk down to such a small size. While this means they don't really show the true beauty of the artists' work, they still fulfil the function of providing pleasing and relevant illustrations for the accompanying text.

I was tempted to make this a 4-star review, but really, 'it is what it is', and for this price it's definitely worth the fifth star.

I only wish they did a full-sized coffee table version of the book. I would have happily paid several times the price for such a thing. On the other hand, you could leave this on your coffee table too, and people could pick it up without straining a muscle!

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