Los mitos griegos y nosotros

A journey through art, music, cinema, psychology and philosophy, to discover the profound legacy of Greek mythology throughout the centuries. Mythology is a universal and eternal legacy that represents absolute human experiences: love, death, birth, betrayal, loneliness or sex. The tragedy of Oedipus or the determination of Prometheus move us because they speak of our own passions, and for this reason they continue to appeal to readers today in the same way that they captivated those who knew them thousands of years ago. For all these reasons, Greek myths have had enormous significance and influence throughout Western culture. Quoting George Steiner "We have added very few presences to the seminal presences that Hellas gave us. Our labors are those of Hercules. Our revelations look to Prometheus (Marx wore the image as a talisman). The Minotaur inhabits our labyrinths and our aviators rush to earth from heaven like Icarus. Even before Joyce -heureux who comme Ulysse-, our pilgrimages and odysseys were those of Ulysses.The exasperated pain of women is still expressed with the voice of Medea.The Trojan women express our lamentations about war. Oedipus and Narcissus dignify and define our complexes". This book presents some of the main Greek myths not from an archaeological or antiquarian point of view, but as living and structuring presences of all Western civilization and our experiences. An approach that underlines the persistence of myths in our personal and cultural lives.