The Complete World of Greek Mythology Hardcover – Illustrated, June 28, 2004

I recieved my copy of this book today and spent several hours reading and taking in its beautiful pictures. This book is absolutely marvelous!!!Granted it may not be the perfect study text to Greek Mythology but it is very informative and provided me with the history and pictorial information I was looking for. This book has family trees, maps, beautiful artwork, many artifacts and great insight to the Greek mythical world. Some of the chapters I was completely enthral with were myths origin, heroic exploits and family sagas. All in all it is well laid out and very easy to understand. I highly recommend this book.

Very interesting in depth

Nice book, lot's of details, good information, well presented and easy to follow but not simple. My only complaint is the size of the text, its small and light. I have bad eyes so this might not bother others. The text is smaller than what you find in novels. I had to use both reading glasses (which is normal for me) AND a magnifying glass, which is not normal for me. But, even so, I enjoyed this book and will go back to it time and time again to refresh on a particular God or myth. Nice pictures of relics and art works to support the text. Filled with fun facts. Its so much fun to acquaint those crazy Gods with modern terminology. The Gods never really died or faded away. Just think how Chaos is with us today, alive and well.

Was purchased as a gift and the recipient reported he loves the book

Seeing the recent movie "Troy" (twice) sparked my reading Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey" (Lombardo's translation). But Homer left gaps, assuming his audience was familiar with the mythology. Buxton's book very nicely, comprehensively and entertainingly fills in those gaps. It's fun to read or just peruse by itself, or as a reference.Even so I'm struck by the early Greeks' absolute belief in the gods, in the gods' presence, and in their power over men and events. Given those Greeks' knowledge of their world back then, I suppose such beliefs were to be expected. But we've come a long way in the intervening three millennia - still many today profess belief in God, the angels and saints. Based on what's known today about our world, in my book, "Concepts: A ProtoTheist Quest for Science-Minded Skeptics", I propose an alternative to such beliefs.

I bought this as a gift for a 17 year old who is really into Greek mythology. When I first saw it I thought it too much of a textbook for that age. When she opened the gift she got so happy. I've been told she is devouring the book so guess I have a bit to learn. I must say I was very impressed with the quality of the information presented, and the illustrations/ photos are also high quality. I would recommend this book if you're looking for more than just reading the myths themselves. This book appears to thoroughly research history and origins of how they evolved.

Took Greek mythology 40 years ago in college and still confused. Bought this book to help me organize a new study of mythology. It is helping, with easy to read text intermingled with ancient art illustrating the myths in the text. Very helpful to see the overall subject of Greek myths in a simplified organized context. A beautiful helpful reference for my 65 year old mind. Well worth the price I paid on Amazon.

Oi have no complains against this book. Is awesome well written, illustrated and explained. Good book to have