Legends of love and beauty among the Greeks

First edition 1965 this book that is in our hands now is an indispensable guide, and a key to understanding the roots of Greek mythology, as it presents to us the origin of the gods, their relationships, their genealogy, their types, and more, with the aim of providing the reader with the appropriate background when engaging with ancient Greek literature, or reading texts inspired by works of Schiller, Shakespeare, and other pioneers of Western literature. So this book is a necessary lamp to enjoy Homer's paradise, and the gardens of the great poets who came after him, who built upon that edifice the structure of that literature.. and the light emitted by this lamp is capable of dispelling the darkness of that ancient intellectual heritage created for us by our sister in memories of the past.. glorious Helas.