The God Beneath the Sea

The God Beneath the Sea

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name = The God Beneath the Sea
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author = Leon Garfield, Edward Blishen
illustrator = Charles Keeping
cover_artist = Charles Keeping
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series =
genre = Children's novel
publisher = Longman
release_date = 26 October, 1970
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 168 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 0582150930 (first edition, hardback)
preceded_by =
followed_by = The Golden Shadow

"The God Beneath the Sea" is a children's novel by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, with illustrations by Charles Keeping. The novel is based on Greek mythology. "The God Beneath the Sea" was awarded the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and was runner-up for the 1970 Kate Greenaway Medal. The novel was republished with illustrations by Zevi Blum in 1971 by Random House.

Garfield, Blishen and Keeping collaborated on a sequel entitled "The Golden Shadow", which covers the myths of the heroic age.

Plot introduction

The novel is divided into three parts. Part one begins with the new-born Hephaestus (the titular god beneath the sea) cast from Mount Olympus by Hera. He is raised in a grotto by Thetis and Eurynome, and the two goddesses tell the infant Hephaestus various tales of the Titans and twelve Olympians. Part one concludes with Hermes inviting Hephaestus back to Olympus at Hera's bequest, and Hephaestus claiming Aphrodite for his wife. Part two retells the myths of Prometheus and Pandora, and part three retells various myths from the age of gods and mortals. The novel concludes with Hephaestus returning to Olympus from Lemnos, having been cast down for a second time after reproaching Zeus.

Allusions/references to other works

Blishen and Garfield based their writing on four source texts: E. V. Rieu's translations of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey", the Metamorphoses, and Robert Graves' "The Greek Myths". [cite book
author=Blishen, Edward, and Garfield, Leon
illustrator=Keeping, Charles
title=The God Beneath the Sea
chapter=Afterword
pages=167
date=26 October, 1970
publisher=Longman
location=London
isbn=0582150930]

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