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(22 reviews)
Author: Bernard Evslin
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Product Description
The earth breeds giants and ogres of indescribable horror — the heavens hold omnipotent gods and goddesses, abounding in courage, strength and wisdom.
Zeus, the almighty king of the gods, who cannot resist feminine beauty — mortal or divine, and his jealous and vengeful wife, Hera.
Perseus, fearless mortal warrior, who takes on an impossible challenge: slaying the monstrous Medusa, whose glance turns men to stone.
The Minotaur, half-man and half-bull, the horrible fruit of a queen’s unspeakable desire, who annually destroys the young victims sacrificed to his terrifying power.
A fantastic world of spells and curses, magic and mystery, forces that create and destroy at will.
5 Comments
Great book to get your childs imagination going. The information on Greek Mythology is addictive where you wont want to put the book down, until you’ve read the whole thing.
This book is full of stories of Heroes, Gods and Monsters, wonderfully written for easy reading and comprehension. A great book for anyone, especially young readers looking for stories that will open their minds to a world of magic and mystery.
If you like greek mytholoy, but you’re not an expert, this is good staring point. it is very clear, and the histories are very fun to read
This is more of a “Mythology for Children and Beginners” resource. Most of the more obscure Greek myths (and in many cases, the more interesting ones) are left out entirely; of the myths which are included, only one version is presented of each, obscuring the fact that in many cases there were multiple versions of each myth, each version interesting and useful in its own right. I would recommend for the enthusiast Edith Hamilton’s carefully researched “Mythology” - there is far more Greek material presented in that book than in this and in a more engaging format.
I have truly enjoyed reading this book. I have some children’s books on mythology that I read to my kids, and I found the topic so interesting I wanted a little something for myself. This is a great light reading of mythology for adults (or teens). I have always had a fascination with greek mythology - but when I took a college course in greek mythology - I felt that the professor pretty much killed any interest I had in the topic. Basically he threw us into some difficult text without much background info - and I ended up bored and “un-enlightened”. Thankfully I rekindled this interest by reading to my kids. This particular book is just wonderful, especially if you are new to mythology - because the writing is very straight forward and accessible, yet fun and intriguing. Had I just started with this book in college, I probably would have read many more books, and ultimately waded into the more complex writing of the Greek plays. This is just the book to stoke the flames for anybody looking for a first adult book about the greek myths.