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Notes on this book will be chronological in reverse order of the chapters of the book. The "pages" in the tabs above will cover additional material in a differently organized manner. 


When you get right down to it, it seems that the entire scaffolding for the Greek mythology:

• Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey
• the plays by the three tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripdes)
• Hesiod's Theogeny 
• academicians start with those and search for nuggets from other sources
• but for a high school student / college student -- a quick, intense two-week course would provide great foundation
• that would be enough for most students, but students who were captivated by the stories would continue on their own

Primary sources:

• Helen Of Troy: The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Bettany Hughes, c. 2005. 

I bought this book at the Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, MA, in 2013, or thereabouts. Josh and Kiri lived in Belmont, MA, a suburb to the west of Boston, 2009 - 2013.

The three books that dovetail very nicely (other than Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey):

• The Wooden House, Keld
• Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age, Christian Meier
• Helen of Troy: The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman In The World, Bettany Hughes, c. 2005.

I've read each of these books at least twice.

The most marked-up book with my handwritten notes: Helen of Troy.

Handwritten notes elsewhere. Way too much to transcribe. May transcribe it someday. -- posted, July 18, 2020.

It looks like one can read this book (Helen of Troy) on-line but what a pain, all the ads. 

The wedding of Peleus and Thetis.

• Thetis, sometimes also identified with Metis
• sea nymph; goddess of water; 
• one of the 50 Nereids (sea nymphs) 
• a granddaughter of Tethys
• in Greek mythology, Tethys was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, sister and wife of the Titan Oceanus, mother of the river gods and the Oceanids. Tethys had no active role in Greek mythology and no established cults.