Kalliste Storytime eBook Bruce Bretthauer
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Kalliste Periakes is a foreighn born archaeology grad student at Northwestern University. She also volunteers her time at the nearby Women's Co-op. She has taught the women there how to weave, make thread, and other "traditional" chores that women used to do. She also, from time to time, tells stories. These are full of Gods, mythical figures, heroes, and legendary characters. They are stories of joy, bitterness, heartache, and loss. Are they stories she dug up in Greece and Italy? or they ones she made up? Or, some whisper, they could be her own story, and if so she must be impossibly old. No one really knows.
These are some of her stories.
Kalliste Storytime eBook Bruce Bretthauer
Most folks these days dismiss legends and myths as pure fiction. If it isn't on the Discovery Channel, written in a recognizable language on a recognizable medium or is a tenet of an accepted modern religion, then those ancient events never happened. Right?Well, let's shelve that debate for another time.
This is a delightful collection of tales told from the perspective of an immortal priestess who was born perhaps two millennium before Jesus Christ. She has both observed and participated in the often violent rise of human civilization and recounts the events she witnessed and times she lived through to her modern-day friends. Not as a dry, dusty professorial lecture, but as only the best of storytellers can.
From ancient Crete to a chance encounter with Vladimir Lenin just before the revolution, this protagonist and her stories cover the ages.
Historically accurate? I'm no dry, dusty scholar to say yea or nay with any certainty.
Great storytelling? Definitely.
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Kalliste Storytime eBook Bruce Bretthauer Reviews
An interesting look at events in the distant past. While a fiction story, it raises some interesting thoughts about what is taught a fact regarding life in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea several thousand years ago.
Well written and drags you down through the centuries. The stories are for an adult bedtime storytime where the world is a thousand shades of grey. The good guys win more often than lose and sometimes just putting down the bad guy is the winning move.
Bruce Bretthauer manages to make something extremely difficult - offering a convincingly different view of some of our most familiar myths - look deceptively easy.
The Greek myths - the gods, the heroes, their personalities, and the world they lived in - are an inescapable part of Western culture. Simplified versions are with us from early childhood in nursery tales, early readers, and cartoons, while more complete versions have popular reading for centuries.
Bretthauer takes the familiar versions and twists them; the stories have the same events, heroes, and, yes, gods as before, but the view given somehow combines wonder with gritty realism. Why did Ariadne help Theseus? What was Heracles really like? What was the world they lived in *really* like day-to-day? What was it like living in a world where ordinary people could find themselves face to face with the more than human?
Read this book and find out.
Most folks these days dismiss legends and myths as pure fiction. If it isn't on the Discovery Channel, written in a recognizable language on a recognizable medium or is a tenet of an accepted modern religion, then those ancient events never happened. Right?
Well, let's shelve that debate for another time.
This is a delightful collection of tales told from the perspective of an immortal priestess who was born perhaps two millennium before Jesus Christ. She has both observed and participated in the often violent rise of human civilization and recounts the events she witnessed and times she lived through to her modern-day friends. Not as a dry, dusty professorial lecture, but as only the best of storytellers can.
From ancient Crete to a chance encounter with Vladimir Lenin just before the revolution, this protagonist and her stories cover the ages.
Historically accurate? I'm no dry, dusty scholar to say yea or nay with any certainty.
Great storytelling? Definitely.
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