The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony - Roberto Calasso

'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a
story: one of
the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the
origins of
Western self-consciousness' Simon Schama

The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was the last time the gods of Olympus
feasted alongside mortals. What happened in the distant ages preceding
it, and in the generations that followed, form the timeless tales of
ancient Greek mythology. In this masterful retelling of the myths we
think we know, Roberto Calasso illuminates the deepest questions of our
existence.

'The kind of book one comes across only once or twice in one's lifetime' Joseph Brodsky

'A perfect work like no other' Gore Vidal