Men and Gods
  • Published: 15 January 2008
  • ISBN: 9781590172636
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $45.00

Men and Gods

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS

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This outstanding collection brings together the novelist and scholar Rex Warner’s knack for spellbinding storytelling with Edward Gorey’s inimitable talent as an illustrator in a memorable modern recounting of the most beloved myths of ancient Greece.

Writing in a relaxed and winning colloquial style, Warner vividly recreates the classic stories of Jason and the Argonauts and Theseus and the Minotaur, among many others, while Gorey’s quirky pen-and-ink sketches offer a visual interpretation of these great myths in the understated but brilliantly suggestive style that has gained him admirers throughout the world. These tales cover the range of Greek mythology, including the creation story of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the heroic adventures of Perseus, the fall of Icarus, Cupid and Psyche’s tale of love, and the tragic history of Oedipus and Thebes. Men and Gods is an essential and delightful book with which to discover some of the key stories of world literature.
  • Published: 15 January 2008
  • ISBN: 9781590172636
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Rex Warner

Rex Warner was born on 9 March 1905. He was educated in Harpenden and at Wadham College, Oxford where he studied Classics and English and wrote poetry.His first collection was published in 1937. He went on to write several novels including The Aerodrome (1941), The Wild Goose Chase (1936) and The Professor (1938). After the war we went to Athens as Director of the British Institute. He later became a Classics professor and was also a celebrated translator of Greek classic writers including Xeonophon, Thucydides, Aeschylus and Euripides. He died on 24 June 1986.

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Praise for Men and Gods

  • "Shakespeare, Shelley, Tennyson and many others got their knowledge of Greek mythology from the often ironical--and always sophisticated--narratives of Ovid...Detail after detail fixes these myths in the memory...The Golden Age of Greece is dim today, but in Men and Gods the golden apples still shine upon the bough." --The New York Times
  • "The British critic V. S. Pritchett once described Mr. Warner as 'the only outstanding novelist of ideas whom the decade of ideas produced.'" --The New York Times