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Songs on Bronze

by Nigel Spivey · 2005

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Most of us would like to know the Greek myths better than we do, and in this book Cambridge academic and BBC presenter Nigel Spivey re-tells the Greek myths as the spellbinding stories they are. In exciting prose he tells of Jason and the Argonauts and the travels of Odysseus, of Oedipus's crime and Orpheus's excursion into the underworld among many more.

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mythologymythologyMore like thisLess of thismyths and folkloremyths and folkloreMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
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ancient Greeceancient GreeceMore like thisLess of thisGreeceGreeceMore like thisLess of this
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anthropologyanthropologyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult

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