Myths

My recent bedtime reading is Myths of Greece and Rome (希臘羅馬神話故事) by Huang Chen Chun (黃晨淳).

The book is in Chinese. I bought it as a bargain item from a local book store. No, it's not a translation from an English one, but written by a Chinese author, who, according to what I could search from Google, publishes extensively in a diverse of areas, including Chinese mythology, philosophy, biography of famous people, and applied psychology.

In fact, there are at least three English books with the same title:

1. One written by Jane Ellen Harrison in 1927.
2. Another by Hélène Adeline Guerber in 1938.
3. A third by Thomas Bulfinch and Bryan Holme in 1981.

When I glimpse through their table of content, none is identical to Huang's one.

PS. A good portion of this book, notably in the account of the Trojan War, is obviously direct translations of Iliad and Odyssey of Homer.

Sometimes I have to accept history is contaminated by literature, or is written by the ones who survived till the end.