Far be it for me to criticise Robert Graves, but this book is impenetrable. Secondly, the Editor’s Introduction is interesting, and serves to whet one’s appetite for the joys to come. A luscious cover, high-quality pages, a two-volume set in its own box. First, it’s a beautiful edition, as you’d expect from Folio. And that rather long-winded tale explains why I finally opened The Greek Myths about a week ago.
She is listening to Mythos, and is finding it both enjoyable and informative. Predictably, given all the other reading and writing and working that I’ve been doing, I forgot. That reminded me that I already had Robert Graves’ book, so I determined to read that instead. He recommended reading Stephen Fry’s books, Mythos and Heroes. The tutor spent a day showing us slides of paintings, and pointing out the references to the Greek Myths embedded within them. In 2019 I attended a one day course entitled “Icons and Iconography” at the Bishopsgate Institute in London. I put it in on my book shelves, where it languished for years, until recently. And yet another was that I’d very foolishly joined a mail order book club, and I had to select something from the catalogue before I had the so-called (and hugely expensive) “book of the Month” foisted upon me.
Another reason was that I felt I needed to be more knowledgable about such things. One was that I enjoyed a pilot episode of I, Claudius, so I assumed that the writing on which it was based must have been pretty good. Many moons ago I bought myself a copy of The Greek Myths, by Robert Graves.
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