A complete illustrated journey through the age of Greek gods.
The gods were not kind. They were not distant. They were magnificent, petty, lustful, and furious, and they made the world in their own image.
Greek Mythology: The Age of Gods is the complete mythological journey: from the void of Chaos to the reign of the Olympians, through the wars, the loves, the punishments, and the tragedies that defined an entire civilization's understanding of what it means to be alive.
Inside this book:
- The Creation: Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and the first gods who made existence possible
- The twelve Titans and the fall of Uranus: power seized, prophecy planted, and the long shadow both would cast
- The Titanomachy: the ten-year war that shook the world to its foundations and ended an age
- The Gigantomachy and Typhon: Gaia's grief made flesh, and the only battle that ever brought the gods to their knees
- Zeus, Hera, and the Olympians: the loves, the betrayals, and the furious negotiation of power that held the cosmos together
- Prometheus, Pandora, and the gift of fire: the myths that explain why we suffer, why we hope, and why we can't stop reaching
- Eros and Psyche, Orpheus and Eurydice, Narcissus, Daedalus: the stories that have never stopped being true
- Hades and the Underworld: the rivers of the dead, the judgment of souls, and what the Greeks truly believed waited on the other side of life
Written in prose that treats these stories as the living things they are. Not relics. Not footnotes. These myths were the ancient world's most honest attempt to answer the questions that have never gone away: Why do we suffer? Why does pride destroy the people it lifts highest? Why does love so often feel indistinguishable from danger?
Based on Hesiod, Homer, and the great tragedians.
Glossary of 250+ entries.
23 full-color original illustrations.
