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Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 318 times as myths)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,311,163 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as myths)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,919,074 ratings — published 2011
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 216 times as myths)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,377,820 ratings — published 2005
Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as myths)
avg rating 4.10 — 340,560 ratings — published 2017
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 158 times as myths)
avg rating 4.26 — 157,310 ratings — published 2017
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 156 times as myths)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,337,390 ratings — published 2006
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
by (shelved 147 times as myths)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,194,555 ratings — published 2007
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 139 times as myths)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,129,120 ratings — published 2009
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
by (shelved 138 times as myths)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,200,178 ratings — published 2008
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as myths)
avg rating 3.79 — 143,407 ratings — published 2021
The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 129 times as myths)
avg rating 4.29 — 928,901 ratings — published 2010
The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2)
by (shelved 112 times as myths)
avg rating 4.40 — 658,619 ratings — published 2011
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as myths)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,859 ratings — published 2019
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as myths)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,171,840 ratings — published -700
The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3)
by (shelved 103 times as myths)
avg rating 4.47 — 665,878 ratings — published 2012
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 100 times as myths)
avg rating 3.93 — 119,028 ratings — published 2013
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as myths)
avg rating 3.71 — 84,833 ratings — published 2005
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as myths)
avg rating 3.89 — 109,710 ratings — published 2018
The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4)
by (shelved 93 times as myths)
avg rating 4.57 — 475,240 ratings — published 2013
Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as myths)
avg rating 4.03 — 59,451 ratings — published 1942
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as myths)
avg rating 3.93 — 501,820 ratings — published -800
The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)
by (shelved 80 times as myths)
avg rating 4.43 — 384,020 ratings — published 2014
Elektra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as myths)
avg rating 3.66 — 54,605 ratings — published 2022
Stone Blind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as myths)
avg rating 3.79 — 74,175 ratings — published 2022
Clytemnestra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as myths)
avg rating 4.22 — 54,131 ratings — published 2023
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as myths)
avg rating 4.10 — 984,499 ratings — published 2001
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as myths)
avg rating 4.22 — 25,878 ratings — published 2020
The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as myths)
avg rating 4.10 — 422,393 ratings — published 2010
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
by (shelved 72 times as myths)
avg rating 4.31 — 57,976 ratings — published 2018
The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as myths)
avg rating 4.13 — 227,013 ratings — published 2016
Atalanta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as myths)
avg rating 3.74 — 33,695 ratings — published 2023
The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as myths)
avg rating 4.23 — 237,407 ratings — published 2015
The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as myths)
avg rating 4.18 — 226,096 ratings — published 2011
The Witch's Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as myths)
avg rating 4.04 — 60,469 ratings — published 2021
Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
by (shelved 51 times as myths)
avg rating 4.35 — 40,995 ratings — published 2020
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as myths)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,413 ratings — published 1988
The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 50 times as myths)
avg rating 4.27 — 178,968 ratings — published 2012
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as myths)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,302 ratings — published -1200
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as myths)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,244 ratings — published 8
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as myths)
avg rating 3.88 — 76,123 ratings — published 2019
The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as myths)
avg rating 4.11 — 137,570 ratings — published 2017
The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as myths)
avg rating 4.30 — 127,963 ratings — published 2016
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as myths)
avg rating 4.43 — 96,891 ratings — published 2014
The Children of Jocasta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as myths)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,310 ratings — published 2017
The Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #3)
by (shelved 42 times as myths)
avg rating 4.36 — 104,502 ratings — published 2017
The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
by (shelved 40 times as myths)
avg rating 3.83 — 28,003 ratings — published 2021
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as myths)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,560 ratings — published 1949
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as myths)
avg rating 4.21 — 170,496 ratings — published 2021
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as myths)
avg rating 4.41 — 19,939 ratings — published 1962
“Max Planck once remarked that new scientific truths don’t replace old ones by convincing established scientists that they were wrong; they do so because proponents of the older theory eventually die, and generations that follow find the new truths and theories to be familiar, obvious even. We are optimists. We like to think it will not take that long.
In fact, we have already taken a first step. We can see more clearly now what is going on when, for example, a study that is rigorous in every other respect begins from the unexamined assumption that there was some ‘original’ form of human society; that its nature was fundamentally good or evil; that a time before inequality and political awareness existed; that something happened to change all this; that ‘civilization’ and ‘complexity’ always come at the price of human freedoms; that participatory democracy is natural in small groups but cannot possibly scale up to anything like a city or a nation state.
We know, now, that we are in the presence of myths.”
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
In fact, we have already taken a first step. We can see more clearly now what is going on when, for example, a study that is rigorous in every other respect begins from the unexamined assumption that there was some ‘original’ form of human society; that its nature was fundamentally good or evil; that a time before inequality and political awareness existed; that something happened to change all this; that ‘civilization’ and ‘complexity’ always come at the price of human freedoms; that participatory democracy is natural in small groups but cannot possibly scale up to anything like a city or a nation state.
We know, now, that we are in the presence of myths.”
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
“It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all folk beliefs are equally valid - if we’re talking not about an internal mindset, but about understanding of the external reality.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
