Weight The Myth of Atlas and Heracles,9781841957180

Weight The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

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ISBN13: 9781841957180
ISBN10: 1841957186
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-10-05
Publisher(s): Canongate U.S.
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Summary

"In ancient Greek mythology Atlas, a member of the original race of gods called Titans, leads a rebellion against the new deities, the Olympians. For this he incurs divine wrath: the victorious Olympians force Atlas, guardian of the Garden of Hesperides and its golden apples of life, to bear the weight of the earth and the heavens for eternity. When the hero Heracles, as one of his famous twelve labors, is tasked with stealing these apples he seeks out Atlas, offering to shoulder the world temporarily if the Titan will bring him the fruit. Knowing that Heracles is the only person with the strength to take his burden, and enticed by the prospect of even a short-lived freedom, Atlas agrees and an uneasy partnership is born."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii
I want to tell the story again
1(8)
Weight of the World
9(18)
Heracles
27(20)
Thought-Wasp
47(16)
Three Golden Apples
63(14)
No Way Out . . .
77(8)
But Through
85(10)
Leaning on the Limits of Myself
95(6)
Private Mars
101(6)
Hero of the World
107(14)
Woof!
121(8)
Boundaries
129(6)
Desire
135(12)
I want to tell the story again
147

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