Don't Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned
A Abandoned, Nonfiction, History book. how the innate and insatiable curiosity young children have about the...
What is an Egyptian pyramid doing on the U. S. dollar bill? Did a pharaoh inspire Moses to worship one God? What’s a Canaanite demoness doing at a rock concert?Since the beginning of time, people have been insatiably curious. They’ve asked questions about where we come from, why the stars shine and the seasons change, and what constitutes evil. The imaginative answers crafted by our ancestors have served as religion, science, philosophy, and popular literature. In this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Don’t Know Much About® series, Kenneth C. Davis introduces and explains the great myths of the world using his engaging and delightfully irreverent question-and-answer style. He tackles the epic of Gilgamesh; Achilles and the Trojan War; Stonehenge and the Druids; Odin, Thor, and the entire Norse pantheon; Native American myths, and much more, including the dramatic life and times of the man who would be Buddha. From Mount Olympus to Machu Picchu, here is an insightful, lively look at the greatest stories ever...
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how the innate and insatiable curiosity young children have about the world gets absolutely killed by the tedium of school. Kenneth C. Davis, Don't Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned // Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. Kenneth C. Davis, Don't Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned // Dont Know Much About Mythology takes a slightly different tack. It sets out to examine all the fascinating myths created by these ancient cultures and relate them to their histories and achievements. Kenneth C. Davis, Don't Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned //
This book helped me a lot through one of my courses in school but not really something to just sit down and read. Very instructive book, though not what I was expecting. I thought it would be a collection of world-wide myths but instead found it to be a history of myths - the author gives the textbook history of a specific group of people or region, the history of the discovery of the myths, and then sprinkles in some of the stories, and finally... I listened to the abridged audio CD. I'm grateful it was abridged. I had a hard time sticking with this book. I can't imagine reading all 560 pages. At times, the book was repetitive, boring, and full of sexual themes. The author loved to quote Freud and refer to any mythic imagery relating to sex or fertility. The title is misleading....
