Though the authors were true intellectuals, they were considered mavericks by the mainstream academy. This is a useful companion to Graves' The Greek Myths, as it puts forth the thesis that the Hebrews, unlike the Greeks, used myth to sermonize on national history and destiny. Thus, the mythological component underlying the theological component is revealed.

Authorized biblical texts are interpreted against the grain to expose folk tales, apocryphal texts, midrashes, and other little-known documents that the Old Testament and the Torah exclude. The Golden Fleece, 1944, Robert Graves, Historical Novel, Trojan Women, Euripides, Ancient Greek Music, Great Books, Homer's Odyssey, Pyrrhus Of Epirus, Polybius, Tacitus, Livy, Homer, Gibbon, Crete, Alexander the Great, Brutus, Hesiod, 10 Commandments, Croesus, I Claudius, lesbos, Livy, Caesar, BBC, Iliad, Caligula, Trajan, Zoroaster, Hadrian. etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español (es) Français (fr) Hrvatski. But soon the attacking armies of Vandals, Goths and Persians grow to fear and respect the name of one man, Belisarius: horseman, archer, swordsman and military commander of genius.

Myths are reconceived as dramatic stories that form a sacred charter either authorizing the continuance or the alteration of religious beliefs. The Golden Fleece and Seven Days in New Crete by Robert Graves, October 1, 2004, Carcanet Press Ltd. The sixth-century Roman Empire is a dangerous place, threatened on all frontiers by invaders. Graves and Patai, renowned scholars of Greco-Roman and Hebrew mythology, transcend the Christian biblical and Judaic versions of these narratives, in order to redefine myth.

A scholarly approach to sixty-one stories from the book of Genesis, following in the lucid format of Graves' canonical The Greek MythsĪn exhaustive study of sixty-one stories from the Old Testament and the Torah, as well as pre-biblical texts censored for centuries, that nuance, extend, and complete the book of Genesis.

The Golden Fleece by Robert Graves