“Behind every myth lies an allegory, and behind every allegory — a truth.” The Traveller of Myths is not another retelling of Greek mythology. It is a journey guided by a restless rebel who refuses to treat myths as fairy tales or dusty academic notes. Instead, he searches for the allegories behind the verses of Homer, Hesiod, and the tragic poets — without ever destroying the magic of the plot. Here, Odysseus is more than a wanderer: he is exile and identity. Achilles’s rage is pride and blindness. The gods of Hesiod are chaos and order, creation and destruction...
Tomazo Thomas Pagonis
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