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Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 439 times as myth)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,362,272 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 363 times as myth)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,011,327 ratings — published 2011
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as myth)
avg rating 4.10 — 343,926 ratings — published 2017
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 260 times as myth)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,455,297 ratings — published 2005
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as myth)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,199,369 ratings — published -800
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 186 times as myth)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,376,593 ratings — published 2006
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as myth)
avg rating 3.93 — 512,344 ratings — published -800
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 179 times as myth)
avg rating 4.26 — 164,553 ratings — published 2017
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 172 times as myth)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,224,603 ratings — published 2007
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 167 times as myth)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,224,892 ratings — published 2008
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 164 times as myth)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,154,851 ratings — published 2009
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as myth)
avg rating 3.78 — 147,667 ratings — published 2021
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as myth)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,890 ratings — published 1988
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 148 times as myth)
avg rating 4.10 — 992,618 ratings — published 2001
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as myth)
avg rating 4.13 — 45,215 ratings — published 1949
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as myth)
avg rating 3.71 — 88,232 ratings — published 2005
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as myth)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,704 ratings — published -2000
Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as myth)
avg rating 4.04 — 60,157 ratings — published 1942
The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 130 times as myth)
avg rating 4.29 — 944,856 ratings — published 2010
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as myth)
avg rating 4.05 — 91,366 ratings — published 2019
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 122 times as myth)
avg rating 3.89 — 113,368 ratings — published 2018
The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus, #2)
by (shelved 113 times as myth)
avg rating 4.40 — 671,133 ratings — published 2011
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as myth)
avg rating 3.50 — 348,930 ratings — published 1000
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as myth)
avg rating 3.78 — 78,052 ratings — published 2022
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as myth)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,635 ratings — published 8
The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus, #3)
by (shelved 104 times as myth)
avg rating 4.47 — 677,415 ratings — published 2012
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 104 times as myth)
avg rating 3.87 — 144,067 ratings — published -19
Clytemnestra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as myth)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,035 ratings — published 2023
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 95 times as myth)
avg rating 3.93 — 124,810 ratings — published 2013
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as myth)
avg rating 4.20 — 81,233 ratings — published 1956
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
by (shelved 90 times as myth)
avg rating 4.31 — 60,606 ratings — published 2018
The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, #4)
by (shelved 90 times as myth)
avg rating 4.57 — 485,996 ratings — published 2013
The Witch's Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as myth)
avg rating 4.04 — 62,342 ratings — published 2021
Atalanta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as myth)
avg rating 3.74 — 35,676 ratings — published 2023
The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as myth)
avg rating 4.10 — 427,204 ratings — published 2010
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as myth)
avg rating 4.22 — 26,824 ratings — published 2020
The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)
by (shelved 71 times as myth)
avg rating 4.43 — 393,380 ratings — published 2014
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as myth)
avg rating 4.11 — 96,815 ratings — published 1992
Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
by (shelved 70 times as myth)
avg rating 4.35 — 43,501 ratings — published 2020
The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as myth)
avg rating 4.23 — 241,475 ratings — published 2015
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as myth)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,819 ratings — published 1220
The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as myth)
avg rating 4.13 — 232,880 ratings — published 2016
The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 61 times as myth)
avg rating 4.18 — 229,151 ratings — published 2011
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as myth)
avg rating 3.88 — 77,930 ratings — published 2019
The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as myth)
avg rating 4.27 — 181,799 ratings — published 2012
The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
by (shelved 51 times as myth)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,195 ratings — published 2021
Neon Gods (Dark Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as myth)
avg rating 3.68 — 310,504 ratings — published 2021
Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as myth)
avg rating 3.69 — 14,374 ratings — published 2022
“This century will be called Darwin's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. Write the name of Charles Darwin on the one hand and the name of every theologian who ever lived on the other, and from that name has come more light to the world than from all of those. His doctrine of evolution, his doctrine of the survival of the fittest, his doctrine of the origin of species, has removed in every thinking mind the last vestige of orthodox Christianity. He has not only stated, but he has demonstrated, that the inspired writer knew nothing of this world, nothing of the origin of man, nothing of geology, nothing of astronomy, nothing of nature; that the Bible is a book written by ignorance--at the instigation of fear. Think of the men who replied to him. Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin, and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task. He was held up to the ridicule, the scorn and contempt of the Christian world, and yet when he died, England was proud to put his dust with that of her noblest and her grandest. Charles Darwin conquered the intellectual world, and his doctrines are now accepted facts. His light has broken in on some of the clergy, and the greatest man who to-day occupies the pulpit of one of the orthodox churches, Henry Ward Beecher, is a believer in the theories of Charles Darwin--a man of more genius than all the clergy of that entire church put together.
...The church teaches that man was created perfect, and that for six thousand years he has degenerated. Darwin demonstrated the falsity of this dogma. He shows that man has for thousands of ages steadily advanced; that the Garden of Eden is an ignorant myth; that the doctrine of original sin has no foundation in fact; that the atonement is an absurdity; that the serpent did not tempt, and that man did not 'fall.'
Charles Darwin destroyed the foundation of orthodox Christianity. There is nothing left but faith in what we know could not and did not happen. Religion and science are enemies. One is a superstition; the other is a fact. One rests upon the false, the other upon the true. One is the result of fear and faith, the other of investigation and reason.”
― Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters On the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--Etc. Etc. Etc, Volume 2
...The church teaches that man was created perfect, and that for six thousand years he has degenerated. Darwin demonstrated the falsity of this dogma. He shows that man has for thousands of ages steadily advanced; that the Garden of Eden is an ignorant myth; that the doctrine of original sin has no foundation in fact; that the atonement is an absurdity; that the serpent did not tempt, and that man did not 'fall.'
Charles Darwin destroyed the foundation of orthodox Christianity. There is nothing left but faith in what we know could not and did not happen. Religion and science are enemies. One is a superstition; the other is a fact. One rests upon the false, the other upon the true. One is the result of fear and faith, the other of investigation and reason.”
― Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters On the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--Etc. Etc. Etc, Volume 2
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
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[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
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