Description
| Product ID: | 9780241399200 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony |
| Authors: | Author: Roberto Calasso |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Myth & legend told as fiction, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology), Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Folklore, myths & legends, Ancient Greece |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self-consciousness' Simon SchamaThe marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was the last time the gods of Olympus feasted alongside mortals. What happened in the distant ages preceding it, and in the generations that followed, form the timeless tales of ancient Greek mythology. In this masterful retelling of the myths we think we know, Roberto Calasso illuminates the deepest questions of our existence. 'The kind of book one comes across only once or twice in one's lifetime' Joseph Brodsky'A perfect work like no other' Gore Vidal ''It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self-consciousness'' Simon Schama |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-07-25 |