Edith Hamilton, in her introduction to Mythology, writes that men and women who cannot explain what happens in the world, use myths to explain mother nature and human nature. Many of these myths show how incredibly intelligent ... ...

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... the Weekly Reader, written by Dorothy Heiderstadt in 1954. Reading that book gave her a lifelong interest in history. When I was a child she read to me Bullfinch's Greek Mythology written by Thomas Bullfinch, and from Edith Hamilton's Mythology. I remember thinking it was really smart of the Trojan's to make a gift of a horse to hide in and take over Troy. These stories made me want to ... absorb anything that had to do with Greek mythology, even up to today. She also read poem's like The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe, and The Yarn Of the ... ...

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... your typical, happy go lucky gods that so many of us are used to seeing in the movies. He was an "[ ] unpitying, inexorable, but just; a terrible, but not evil god." (Mythology, Edith Hamilton) But he had his reasons for it. Hades was the son of Cronus and Rhea. These two gods were some of the first in the universe and were pretty confused ... ...

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