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“Extraordinary … learned but also daring … brilliant, dazzling to read, a labyrinth lit by a fire. The whole of Greek mythology is simultaneously present from Homer to the very end of pagan antiquity.”
—The New York Review of Books
THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY
But how did it all begin? No better answer to that question exists than in the Greek myths that are retold and refracted to breathtaking effect in The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony. With vast erudition and irresistible verve, Roberto Calasso tells the stories of Zeus and Europa, Theseus and Ariadne, of the birth of Athens and the fall of Troy, tracing them back along the branches of a single myth-bearing tree. In doing so, he rediscovers the origins of desire and strife, virginity and rape, of tragedy and of the “mysteries” of life.
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VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL
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