Cronus (Saturn), father of Zeus, learned from Gaia and Uranus that one of his own children would overthrow him as he did his own father. The book has thick hard cover, with thick quality pages, beautiful strong colour plates and stitch binding.

and fits the fairytale mode with how Psyche finds a perfect love with Cupid but after losing him is put through a series of trials to be reunited with Cupid, and live happily ever after.When I took a folklore course at Uni, it was still considered a standard book for teaching, and I greeted it like the old friend it was. Finally, it should be noted that Hamilton's retelling of the Greek myths is based solely on her study of the classical literature - she had never been to Greece, and had no archaeological experience. This book can be considered the best reference material for those interested in knowing more about mythology.

Some of the tales have a really insidious tone that I think could make for some chilling cinematics. Easy to find online references for individual myths, often more thorough, but Hamilton and Bullfinch were the books we had kicking around the house in childhood, pulling the stories together. The following year, she and her sister Alice went to Germany and were the first women students at the universities of Munich and Leipzich. Secondly, it begins with a brief commentary talking about the sources, her views, and some interesting observations then the retelling occurs and within retelling, there will be some commentary but mostly that story, which this cycle repeats quite often. This leads to another problem with 'Mythologies' in that Hamilton refers to both Greek and Latin origins, all clearly marked in the introductions to each story, and then retells the stories in her own words.Hector’s young Son, Astyanax and Hecuba’s daughter, Polyxena are murdered after the defeat of Troy, Tantalus kills his own son and feeds him to the Gods, Atreus feeds his brother his own children… you get the point! Reading this you get to understand the culture of the Greeks, what they believed in and the values of these stories. Fry used this novel as a source (and many others) because this is such a cohesive package, sorting out the various sources and semi being chronological. I also enjoyed how the author included different versions of the tales and who originally wrote these down- for example, there are different versions of Jason on the Argo, whether Atalanta was part of the Argo or not and a different tale of Ipigneia’s demise (which I especially loved as her story was so sad! This story, along with a few others, got me wondering why no one has created any horror adaptations of the Greek Myths.