I first read Edith Hamilton's "Mythology" when I was a freshman in college, and I fell in love with Greek myth then and there. So when my daughter was in seventh grade, and came saying we needed to go buy this book, i said: "I think we have a copy around here somewhere." And indeed we did. She looked at it and said," This can't be the right book. It only cost fifty cents."
It's still the best introduction to the stories. And the more I studied poetry, the more mythology got into my blood.
Then I discovered the novels of Mary Renault--"the Last of the Wine," "the Bull from the Sea," "The King Must Die." She turned mythology into plausible realistic fiction. And it was still wonderful.
I say all this to explain why my poems took on such a mythological bent, even before I read Jean Bolen's "the Godesses in Every Woman," which gave me a structure for "Vision at Delphi." That book was first issued in 1995 and is about to be reissued now. Watch for it. I went to Greece for the first time in 1977, and at Delphi, Athena spoke to me. It just took me a few months to figure out what she said. This was aat the height of the Women's Movement, but I don't think it's dated. There's a new generation of young women out there who need to hear the message of the Greek goddessses.
It's still the best introduction to the stories. And the more I studied poetry, the more mythology got into my blood.
Then I discovered the novels of Mary Renault--"the Last of the Wine," "the Bull from the Sea," "The King Must Die." She turned mythology into plausible realistic fiction. And it was still wonderful.
I say all this to explain why my poems took on such a mythological bent, even before I read Jean Bolen's "the Godesses in Every Woman," which gave me a structure for "Vision at Delphi." That book was first issued in 1995 and is about to be reissued now. Watch for it. I went to Greece for the first time in 1977, and at Delphi, Athena spoke to me. It just took me a few months to figure out what she said. This was aat the height of the Women's Movement, but I don't think it's dated. There's a new generation of young women out there who need to hear the message of the Greek goddessses.
RSS Feed