The Myths of Greece and Rome

Disrespectful and Lazy

This book is just kind of a disgrace. I got maybe 8 pages in before I couldn’t read it anymore. The format is confusing and seems more like a text book than anything, and the so very obviously Christian author writes this like she was given a week to summarize all of greek mythology. The names used are not the original Greek versions, but the Roman. I was willing to get past that but there were inconsistencies with even that. If all the names are in the Roman vernacular, shouldn’t Eros (Greek) be called Cupid (Roman)? This honestly feels as though someone watched one of the Percy Jackson movies (yes, movies) and tried to summarize what they learned from memory. An 8th grader could do better.
“The Greeks and Romans...lacking the definite knowledge which we obtain from the scriptures,” is a real line in the beginning of this book, and if you don’t see anything wrong with that, please take a class on religion. To say that the author didn’t respect the ancient traditions is a gross understatement as her rhetoric and diction is particularly distasteful as she talks about certain traditions which happen to mean a lot to some people. I will be finding a book that takes the time to respect this beautiful culture and that actually put some thought into the content (or at least edited it. This feels like a second draft).

I read the introduction again and she literally says that she left out some stories she didn’t find “suitable”