**A "profound and provocative" reimagining of the Greek legend by the *New York Times*βbestselling author of *Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal*? (*Daily Mail*).** With wit and verve, Whitbread Awardβwinning novelist Jeanette Winterson brings the mythical figure of Atlas into the space age
Weight- The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
β Scribed by Winterson, Jeanette
- Book ID
- 107108425
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 42 KB
- Series
- Canongate The Myths 3
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781847676504
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βWhen I was asked to choose a myth to write about, I realized I had chosen already. The story of Atlas holding up the world was in my mind before the telephone call had ended. If the call had not come, perhaps I would never have written the story, but when the call did come, that story was waiting t
Creation and the birth of Zeus -- Prometheus's fire and Pandora's box -- Phaethon and the chariot of the sun -- Hades, Persephone, and the story of the seasons -- Eurydice and Orpheus -- Athena and Poseidon's contest for Athens -- Arachne's web -- Perseus's quest -- Perseus and Medusa -- Perseus and