Greek Mythology is originally written by Gustav Schwab (1792 – 1850), who is a German Romantic poet in the nineteenth Century. He was born in Stuttgart, graduated from the famous Tubingen Seminary, majored in philosophy and theology. After graduation he worked as a pastor, teacher. He wrote poems, ballads, and also edited and published several books, but the most famous and profound effect is the “most beautiful legend”, which was published in 1840. Schwab devoted his life to the excavation and arrangement of ancient cultural heritage, with the rigorous style of the Germans, he collated and arranged the messy contradiction of Greek myths and legends, at last he compiled this “Greek Mythology”. This book is translated into many kinds of characters, widely circulated around the world.
