Anyone who is seriously interested in Greek mythology - and a lot of other people - should read The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony by Roberto Calasso, an Italian intellectual who is the best writer about myth I have ever read. This is because he is the only writer about myth I have read who treats mythology as a mentality rather than an object of distant study, and who appreciates that myth- systems are not consistent and do not have to be, and who takes as a starting point that people living 2500 years ago are (or might be) as intelligent and incredulous as us. Anthony, honestly, if you've never read it, go and buy it tomorrow. When you've finished it go and get Ka, his equally enchanting depiction of Hindu mythology.
OTM - from everything I've read about it Ka is supposed to be fantastic
― Vichitravirya_XI, Saturday, 11 October 2008 10:23 (fifteen years ago) link
do we not have a thread for hung yet?
― saddam hoosteen did ✈ ▌▌ (cozwn), Friday, 17 July 2009 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
do we need one?
― ☆, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 12:35 (fourteen years ago) link