I am starting to realize that the key to a good book report is starting to write it when you start to read. If you wait until the end, all the good ideas in the beginning are forgotten. Still, the book has to be read to its completion before it can be properly reviewed.
I pulled out this collection of Greek Myths for a perusal after watching Percy Jackson and reading the second book (when Princess Pirate was finished with it!). It was a good overview of some of the best stories, and some were so primordial: the creation of man and animals, temptation, creation of the seasons, curse of the spider and the daffodil, the feats of Hercules (not Greek: in Greek it's Heracles), the golden fleece, king Midas touch, the sun chariot, and Odysseus adventures.
Some myths overlap others so familiar: In this creation story, Epimetheus creates animals, but Zeus asks his brother Prometheus to make man. He makes them out of clay, breathing on them to bring them to life. He loves them so much that he steals fire from Zeus to give to them for warmth and cooking and is punished for hundreds of years due to his immortality. The story goes that an eagle tears out his liver every day, and every night it grows back.
How can a myth so old be so right about this organ that to this day amazes with it's regeneration power? Did they know this, before surgery was even a common thing?
Pandora's box is so much like many temptation stories - the fall of Eden as an example. It's strange that anyone would keep a box that you should never open. Just don't keep it around! The end was interesting, because since the box unleashed all sorts of evil, the last thing to fall out was hope, so that in all of it, humans would never despair.
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