Lore Olympus, Volume Four (R.) Smythe, Pp. 416, b/w & colour ills. London: Del Rey, 2023. Cased, £22. ISBN: 978-1-5299-0988-3
Year: 2025
Type: book-review
Abstract: books: in her pictorial work, she places these sacred tales alongside the myths of numerous other powerful women for the reader to contrast and compare (and, of course, to delight in); while her two macrominature works give us quite an extraordinary glimpse into the mindset of mythographers who were at the forefront of reviving the Greek world from its long period of somnolence in the English-speaking (and reading) world, with profound implications for how this revival would shape the contemporary and future West.Omnia in omnibus, Menzies has made a healthy contribution to the contemporary pleasure we still extract from the myths of the Greeksand of those even more exoticwhether that reader should be youthful or one simply wishing to enjoy those eras when the fine art of storytelling was still in its youth.
Author: Elliot Elstob
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4406252591