Greek Myths Tales: Epic Tales by Flame Tree Studio

Greek Myths Tales: Epic Tales Reviews

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  Riley

  Wasn't a fan. Authors were pretty biased and seem pretty against most of the Greek beliefs if not all. I could basically feel the dismay on the subject through the writing.
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  Tiago Faleiro

  I love mythology so I was looking for a book to read about it, and Greek mythology seems one of the richest and relevant for Western culture. The first thing that stands out in the book is its beautiful design. The cover is amazing, and the book as a whole is very well built. It's definitely one of my favorites in my collection.
  
  Regarding the actual content, it starts with the beginning of Greek mythology, such as the egg myth, titans, and birth of Zeus, and then later it covers the major Gods in Olympus. I liked this part the best, probably because it was easy to digest and I was fairly familiar with it.
  
  But then the book goes on to other divinities, and several adventures and minor stories within Greek culture. They are well written, but I was somewhat disappointed reading them. They are often grouped together by theme, for example, myths of love or tales of troy, and this was very helpful. But it wasn't enough to make the whole thing feel like a coherent narrative. The stories felt too disjointed to me. And they're often too many details and too many variations for me to be able to keep track.
  
  I would often start reading the book and try to ask myself what I had remembered from the last time I read it, and the answer was often nothing. Because of how much there is into it, it made it difficult to assimilate.
  
  I think in large part this is due to Greek mythology as a whole, and not specific to this book. For example regarding myth variations, there isn't much you can do about it. And regarding how extensive some stories are, that's part of the legacy itself. We are blessed that there is so much material about it, which is not always the case. But nevertheless, it did ruin the reading experience a bit for me.
  
  It's not a bad book, but I was hoping to be more enjoyable. And the book is incredibly long, it took me forever to read it. It deceptively looks like normal length, but the text is rather small and the pages are big. Out of curiosity, I looked up the number of words, and it's 283k, which is a lot. Reading at an average speed of 200 words per minute that will take you 23 hours.
  
  If you like Greek mythology, there is plenty in this book, and I found it well written. I did enjoy many tales, and I liked learning new aspects of the pantheon that I never heard of, or just refreshing stories that I had forgotten. And Greek mythology is both fascinating on its own right and also incredibly important to how the West developed.
  
  However, from my experience, the book is overkill and doesn't feel as cohesive as I hoped. Make sure that your interest in Greek Mythology is worth a book of this scope, rather than a very short introduction or some youtube videos.
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  Rachel

  1 star. DNF by page 50.
  Had me at first but the overwhelming obviousness that this was written from a Christian lens by several different people is just too much. There’s continuity errors everywhere AND some things are just wrong. “Heaven” is mentioned more than Olympus and the blatant bias (especially in Hera’s chapter) is so disgustingly disrespectful that I cannot continue. Tell me you don’t respect a culture and beliefs and religion that is literally still practiced without actually telling me.
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  Kendall Jasper

  I love Greek mythology and collect books to find new little details I didn’t know before. But with that being said some details are widely known amongst Greek mythos aficionados. The book says Hades is the younger brother of Zeus and Poseidon, when it’s known that Zeus was the youngest, a small mistake but regardless has me question the validity of the content the book has to offer.
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  Elizabeth Bailey

  Still currently reading this book the author is outstandingly intriguing can't wait to finish it and his other books .
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  Jasper Wijnhoven

  1/5 book with a 5/5 cover. Sentences are terribly cluttered as if even the editor didn't bother, they use some of the Latinized names instead of the original Greek ones and there are some very disrespectful sentences like "The Greeks, for instance, lacking the definite knowledge which we obtain from the Scriptures, and still anxious to know everything, were forced to construct, in part, their own theory."
  
  I learned some new things from this book but given everything else I'm starting to doubt some of them are true. There are only 4 sources given, all of which are more than a hundred years old.