{"product_id":"classics-greek-mythology-edith-hamilton","title":"Classics: \"Greek Mythology,\" Edith Hamilton","description":"\u003cp\u003eMythology:Published 1942; 515 pages;\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLesson Plans: Dialectic Journal: 336 pages, 3926 words, many visuals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the basis of Western Civilization, the Greeks were pioneers.\u0026amp;nbsp; With the tradition of oral storytelling, writers like Homer hand Herodotus, dramatists like Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles, comedians like Aristophanes, the Roman writers Virgil, poet Ovid took the oral stories and made them attract thousands to the Theaters that educated the populace.\u0026amp;nbsp; The Renaissance revived this Classic Tradition, translating the Greek and Latin text into their vernaculars and led to the New \"epics: that were traditions in one country to another.\u0026amp;nbsp; Italy offered up Dante's Inferno; Spain El Cid and Cervantes' Don Quixote France the Chanson de Rolande,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe culture and storytelling allowed the painters and the artists to bring the masses into the Church, Michelangelo worked for the Pope, Donatello worked for the French nobles, Rafael for the DiMedicis. Leonardo became the inventor artist with sculpture, inventions, paintings, and biological studies of man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd Shakespeare became the playwright in England to interpret Mythology iin \"much Do About Nothing.\" \"Midsummer's Night Dream,\" Romeo and Juliet,\" and \"King Lear.\"\u0026amp;nbsp; The Modern era saw Joseph Campbell invesigate the period again, Sir James Frasier, Nietzshe in Germany, Freud and Jung throughout Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd in America, George Lucas capitalized on the Geek myths in his StarWars saga.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo these are the stories that have been around forever in different versions!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mr. Brovsky's Office","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50260999733464,"sku":"3.0","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8862\/2040\/files\/Hamilton_sMythology.jpg?v=1742066220","url":"https:\/\/mr-brovsky.myshopify.com\/products\/classics-greek-mythology-edith-hamilton","provider":"Mr. Brovsky's Office","version":"1.0","type":"link"}