Description |
xxiii, 546 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Summary |
Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this follow-up to the bestselling My mother she killed me, my father he ate me. "Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind of Trojan horse--his cremains in a bullet. Here ... are your favorite mythological figures--Daedalus and Icarus, Narcissus and Echo, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion and Galatea, even Argos, Odysseus's faithful dog--alongside characters from Indian, Punjabi, Inuit, Aztec, and other traditions"--Page 4 of cover. |
Subject |
Mythology, Greek -- Fiction.
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Greece -- History -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Added Author |
Bernheimer, Kate.
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Added Title |
Orpheus : fifty new myths |
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Fifty new myths |
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50 new myths |
ISBN |
9780143122425 paperback |
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0143122428 paperback |
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