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Title	:	Οι γάμοι του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας
Author	:	Roberto Calasso
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	October 2005 by Καστανιώτης (first published 1988)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Mythology. Fiction. Philosophy. Literature. European Literature. Italian Literature. Classics

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Στους γάμους του Κάδμου και της Αρμονίας ήταν η τελευταία φορά όπου, με την ευκαιρία εκείνης της γιορτής, οι θεοί του Ολύμπου κάθισαν στο ίδιο τραπέζι με τους θνητούς. Όσα συνέβησαν πριν, στη διάρκεια πολλών αιώνων, και μετά, στη διάρκεια λίγων γενεών, διαμορφώνουν το τεράστιο και πολύφυλλο δέντρο της ελληνικής μυθολογίας, με εκείνες τις εκπληκτικές ιστορίες «που δεν συνέβησαν ποτέ, αλλά ανέκαθεν υπήρχαν». Κι επειδή ο καλύτερος τρόπος για να αναλογιστεί κανείς τους μύθους είναι να τους διηγηθεί, ο Ρομπέρτο Καλάσο, σ' αυτό το βιβλίο του που έχει μεταφραστεί σε όλο τον κόσμο, αφηγείται τις αρχαιοελληνικές ιστορίες από την αρχή, με τον δικό του τρόπο. Και βάζει τα ερωτήματά του: Γιατί οι θεοί του Ολύμπου πήραν ανθρώπινη μορφή και γιατί τη συγκεκριμένη μορφή; Γιατί οι ιστορίες τους είναι τόσο σκανδαλώδεις και τόσο σαγηνευτικές; Γιατί η εποχή των ηρώων ήταν τόσο σύντομη, ταραχώδης και ανεπανάληπτη; Και γιατί μας μαγεύουν ακόμη;

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Original Title:	Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia ISBN13 9789600340785
Edition Language:	Greek, Modern (1453-)
Characters:	Artemis (Goddess), Jason (Argonaut), Demeter (Goddess), Theseus (mythology), Odysseus, Helen of Troy, Achilles (Greek hero), Orestes, Zeus (God), Dionysus (mythology), Athena (Greek goddess), Persephone (Goddess), Hades, Ariadne of Crete, Cadmus (mythology), Harmonia, Apollo (Greek god), Europa
Setting:	Ancient Greece(Greece)
Literary Awards:	Prix européen de l’essai Charles Veillon (1991)

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I have long observed that the reason why every effort to adapt The Iliad to film fails so spectacularly is because the godsso integral to Homers epicare somehow excluded from the big screen. It was not entirely his fault that beefcake Brad Pitt looked so ridiculous trying to channel Achilles in Oliver Stones 2004 dreadful attempt: Homers Achilles is himself half-divine, spawn of the sea nymph Thetis and the mortal Peleus, and it is the intervention of the Olympian gods to palliate the rage of

Calasso's famous book gives us a new telling of the old Greek myths. It's the familiar couched in a new language so stirring it becomes poetry. Such exquisite language is needed to capture the essence of those moments when the gods are at once themselves and yet are everywhere and everything.In other writings Calasso has flirted with the idea that the gods were once as real as you and I but that they went away. A lovely idea as romantic as the myths themselves. The marriage of Cadmus and

Rather than present a distanced and readily understandable survey of Greek mythology, Calasso instead goes into and behind the myths to create a verbal environment that to my mind comes as close as possible to reenacting in the mind of the reader the intellectual feel of living in a living mythology, from both the perspective of the gods and the perspective of mortals, and from both the experience of living life itself and living through reading. The book is an overlapping series of thematic

Recommended to me by Eloise at a friend's Christmas party. The author, Robert Calasso, wrote the earlier The Ruin of Kasch in 1983, a book admired by Italo Calvino. Dedicated to the French statesman Talleyrand, it was followed in 1988 by The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, in which the tale of Cadmus and his wife Harmonia becomes a pretext for re-telling the great tales of Greek mythology and reflecting on the reception of Greek culture for a contemporary readership. Another world civilization

Robert Calassos book is a marvel. It is beautifully written, moving and insightful. I strongly recommend it to anyone who enjoys ancient Greece and Greek Mythology. While there are significant portions that went beyond by understanding, I never tired of his word, sentence and paragraph assembly. Even the simplest assembly of words was somehow poignant. Take for example, The old Plato of the Laws was still thinking of Sparta with obscure regret. Obscure and regret coupled says a lot about a

The most profound books that I have ever read have left me speechless, even stammering. Such is the case with Roberto Calasso's The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, which I have put down no more than fifteen minutes ago. Here is a book about why myths exist, and why Ancient Greece continues to have such a hold on the Western mind. One of my strange little reading habits is, for each year, to choose a theme that will guide much of my reading for the year. For 2010, I am delving into Ancient

The most profound books that I have ever read have left me speechless, even stammering. Such is the case with Roberto Calasso's The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, which I have put down no more than fifteen minutes ago. Here is a book about why myths exist, and why Ancient Greece continues to have such a hold on the Western mind. One of my strange little reading habits is, for each year, to choose a theme that will guide much of my reading for the year. For 2010, I am delving into Ancient