The Marriage of Cadmus and HarmonyBy: Roberto Calasso Series: Penguin Modern Classics 'It will be read and re read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self consciousness' Simon Schama The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was the last time the gods of Olympus feasted alongside mortals. What happened in the distant ages preceding it, and in the generations that followed, form the timeless tales of ancient