Word: condescending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dust jacket of Greek Gods and Heroes suggests that the work is for teenagers, and a child of 14 or 15 could read the book without loss of dignity. Graves has too much sense to condescend. But the book, which is pleasantly illustrated by Dimitris Davis, is simply enough written to be read by an intelligent parent to an intelligent eight-year-old. Graves lets his readers see the Olympians as the more sophisticated Greeks saw them-beings more than mortal, but no more than human. He explains, for instance, that the sea god Poseidon "hated to be less important...