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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 The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was the last time the gods of Olympus feasted alongside mortals. '
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.
In this masterful retelling of the myths we think we know, Roberto Calasso illuminates the deepest questions of our existence.
What happened in the distant ages preceding it, and in the generations that followed, form the timeless tales of ancient Greek mythology. '
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 The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was the last time the gods of Olympus feasted alongside mortals
