How long does it take to read The Greek Myths?
The Greek Myths by Robert Graves takes about 12 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1955. 700 pages, about 192,500 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 51 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Greek Myths is a compendium of Greek mythology by the poet Robert Graves, first published in 1955. Each myth is retold in the manner of an ancient narrator, with citations of classical sources. After every retelling, Graves adds his own analysis of its origin and meaning. He reads the stories through a belief in a prehistoric matriarchal religion, treating many myths as traces of ritual and of struggles between Greek kings and priestesses of a Moon goddess. The collection also includes several creation myths, among them a reconstructed Pelasgian one.
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Subjects: Greek Mythology, Trojan War, Heracles (Greek mythology), Odysseus (Greek mythology), Argonauts (Greek mythology), Mythology, Greek.
