Intro to A To Z 2021: The Greek Myths

 

Just a brief intro to my planned month of posts on Greek myths. I knew that X wouldn’t be a problem this time, but there were other letters that were, eg F and W, so I have found other ways to use them. 

For the same reason, I’m spelling names for convenience, eg K instead of C, but only when convenient to me. Ignore - the characters are the same people. 

Where I think it’s interesting I’ve included mentions of fiction about various characters and stories based on Greek myths. I’ll include links to where you can buy them.

There are so very many interesting stories, so sometimes I’ll write about more than one character per letter, but even so, I’ll miss some. Feel free to tell me your favourites I have skipped in the comments. 

I highly recommend Robert Graves’ book The Greek Myths, which is still easily available, in ebook and print. It certainly got me interested, when I was a child(I suspect he would have been embarrassed to learn that a little girl was reading his book!). You may or may not agree with all those footnotes about Sacred Kings and Triple Goddesses, but he was thorough and he gave all the variants he knew of each myth.

See you on April 1!