The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

Roberto Calasso

Knopf, Feb 1, 1993 - Fiction - 403 pages

Presenting the stories of Zeus and Europa, Theseus and Ariadne, the birth of Athens and the fall of Troy, in all their variants, Calasso also uncovers the distant origins of secrets and tragedy, virginity, and rape. "A perfect work like no other. (Calasso) has re-created . . . the morning of our world."--Gore Vidal. 15 engravings. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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User Review  - Anna Butler - Goodreads

It's rare that book this profound, this downright difficult, can speak to us with such passion and clarity that I can with confidence say that the reader will never again look at the myths that are ...

Review: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

User Review  - Anthony Bolton - Goodreads

A BOOK TO READ AGAIN AND AGAIN. NEVER WAS THAT OLD SAW MORE APT THAN WITH THIS BOOK. EXCEPT THAT ONCE READ YOU WILL NEVER ACTUALLY STOP READING. YOU`LL JUST KEEP DIPPING INTO IT`S WORLD AT RANDOM ; A ...

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 15
• Section 3: 27

About the author

Roberto Calasso is also the author of "The Forty-Nine Steps" and "Literature and the Gods." He lives in Milan and is the publisher of Adelphi.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
• Author: Roberto Calasso
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Knopf, 1993
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Apr 1, 2008
• ISBN: 0394581547, 9780394581545
• Length: 403 pages
• Subjects: Cadmus (Greek mythology); Cadmus (Greek mythology)/ Fiction; Fiction / General; Harmonia (Greek mythology); Harmonia (Greek mythology)/ Fiction; Religion / History