Mythology: Greek Myths, Tales, and Legends from the Ancient Empire

By: Coby Evans

Narrated by: K.M. Logan

Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

The only audiobook you’ll ever need about Greek mythology!

This elaborate audiobook gives you all the insights you will ever need to know. All the basics are in here and more. You will learn about the Greeks’ and Romans’ belief in the creation of the world and theories about the creation of mankind. You’ll get an extensive description of various gods and goddesses. Hardly anything or anyone is left out here. Everything will become clear, from Zeus’ extreme power to Aphrodite’s love and lust inclinations.

You’ll listen about the different interpretations of Artemis as a goddess, the heroic deeds of Heracles or Perseus, and the takeover of the Greeks and the Trojans. Find out what water nymphs are or where Argonauts originated from. Become more deeply involved in the Heraclidae or the whereabouts of Cadmus or Ion. All of these persons, from Nyx to Hades, are given and described in a lively setting.

Do yourself a favor and get it immediately!

©2019 Coby Evans (P)2020 Coby Evans

Liked

Liked and forwarded. Share this book. It's not that bad. In fact, it's rather impressive. Hail Zeus!

What's not to like?

Sure, if you don't like the narrator's voice, then I understand. But what's not to like about the book itself? Everything is there. I don't know if there is any aspect of Greek mythology that this didn't cover. Having said that, I didn't hear the author's personal opinion about it a lot. Just mostly facts, stories, and the dram from the Greek myths. And hey, that was what I was looking for anyway.

Great myths

These myths are great. The entire glossary of Greek gods and goddesses in here, as well as well-known heroes like Heracles (yes, it's not Hercules in the Greek version that the Romans stole). The enemies, monsters, the underworld... there is so much in here. Give it a try, especially if you have a credit to get it for free.

Robotic at best

While I will listen to the whole thing. It will be begrudgingly so. The myths are torn apart from their original stories as individuals only. So that you do not hear the myth as a whole but in pieces. Also the narrative is done in a way that makes it feel robotic with how it was read. I was unable to tell the difference between the myth story and what was the analytical history connecting it to the people. When there was a pause or space it felt odd and as if there was an issue with the recording. They only use I’ll be using it for is as cross reference to see what was changed versus other readings of the myths.
I am very disappointed in how this was portrayed with the plethora of information at their disposal. I listened to two history lectures that were better at telling the myths than this book.

Narrator

Is terrible (I am required to write 13 words in order to submit this review)

unlistenable reading

The narrator of this work is so terrible as to make this unlistenable. I've never had to return a book in nearly a decade of listening, but this was a first.

It may be a very failed attempt at having AI read a book. or possibly the person reading has no idea how to actually speak English, and only knows pronounciation (which also fluctuates wildly). Random pauses in the middle of sentences, complete disregard for punctuation, and emphasizing words at random make it impossible to understand what the author was trying to convey.

The only thing this was good for was playing for my kids so they could laugh at it.